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Inglewood Forest long remained a royal chase. 

 As such it received incidental notice in various 

 public documents. Thus it is mentioned among 

 divers woods, lands, and tenements 'where in his 

 Ma tie hath a right and title which is by some persons 

 of late controverted,' in a Treasury warrant issued 

 from Whitehall on July 21, 1668. Even after the 

 accession of the Prince of Orange, * The Town and 

 Manor of Penreth and the Forest of Inglewood were 

 held of her Pr'sent Majesty the Queen Dowager as 

 Lord thereof.' William II. soon granted the manor of 

 Inglewood to the Duke of Portland, who sold it to 

 the Duke of Devonshire in 1737. I have failed to 

 ascertain the precise date at which this historical 

 chase ceased to afford a sanctuary to the red deer. 

 My friend Chancellor Ferguson writes that ' Edward 

 Hasell, who owned Dalemain from 1794 to 1825, 

 inherited the family sporting tastes, and with his 

 hounds assisted at two occasions which may be 

 called historical the capture of the last stag on 

 Whinfell, and the capture of the last stag in Ingle- 

 wood Forest, when these two famous and ancient 

 chases were disforested. The Dalemain hounds 

 continued to find stags in Martindale, where the 

 Countess of Lonsdale, in the glories of a carriage and 

 four and outriders, would not infrequently be seen 



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