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however, of this Pedigree have been printed for private distri- 
bution, I have obtained Mr. Tucker’s permission to make the 
facts relating to the Wild Boar and the Rhyne Toll more generally 
known to naturalists and others by reprinting his remarks thereon 
in ‘ The Zoologist.’ 
He says :—“ Many ancient rights and customs, which have long 
since lost much of their significance, and perhaps now appear to 
modern notions ridiculous, are nevertheless valuable in connection 
with history. They often confirm and illustrate facts, which, from 
the altered state of the country, would otherwise be unintelligible, 
and perhaps at the present day discredited. Such a custom or 
privilege is still possessed, and was till recently exercised by the 
lords of the manor of Chetwode, in Bucks, which, although very 
curious both in its origin and observance, has escaped the notice 
of Blount and other writers on the jocular customs of manors. 
The manor of Chetwode—a small village about tive miles from 
Buckingham—has been the property of the Chetwode family from 
Saxon times. Though of small extent, it is the paramount manor 
of a liberty or district embracing several other manors and villages 
which are required to do suit and service at the court leet held at 
Chetwode every three years. The lord of Chetwode has also the 
right to levy a yearly tax, called the ‘Rhyne Toll,” on all cattle 
found within this liberty between the 30th of October and the 
7th of November, both days inclusive. The commencement of 
the toll, which was proclaimed with much ceremony, is thus 
described in the record of a trial in the reign of Queen Elizabeth:— 
“In the beginning of the said Drift of the Common, or Rhyne, 
first at their going forth, they shall blow a welke-shell, or horne, 
immediately after the sunrising at the mansion-house of the 
manor of Chetwode, and then in their going about they shall blow 
their horne the second time in the field between Newton Purcell 
and Barton Hartshorne, in the said county of Bucks; and also 
shall blow their horne a third time at a place near the town of 
Finmere, in the county of Oxford; and they shall blow their 
horne the fourth time at a certain stone in the market of the town 
of Buckingham, and there to give the poor sixpence; and so, 
going forward in this manner about the said Drift, shall blow 
connected with their claim to the Barony of De Wahull, and an Account of 
the Chetwode Rhyne Toll. By Stephen Tucker, Esq., Somerset Herald in 
Ordinary. Fifty copies only: privately printed, 1884. 
