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CHAPTER XII. 
Toruarp Farnuam Common anp Row1ey GREEN. 
TOLLARD FARNHAM. 
From these numerous and splendid successes in vindica- 
tion of the rights of Commoners, for the prevention 
of inclosure, it is now necessary to turn to the cases of 
two reverses, where there was failure to defeat aggression. 
In 1874 assistance was asked of the Commons Society 
to investigate the total inclosure of a Common at 
Tollard Farnham, a purely rural parish, about seven 
miles from Blandford, in the County of Dorset. Upon 
this Common the cottagers of the village had been 
in the habit, from time immemorial, of cutting furze 
and hazel tops, for the purpose of fuel, and for cou- 
sumption in their own houses only. The hearths of 
all the cottages in the village were constructed for 
burning this kind of fuel, and were unsuitable for coal, 
which in former days it was impossible to procure, 
and which, in more recent years, could only be pur- 
chased in the village at a high price. The cessation 
of the supply of the customary fuel, it was alleged, 
had caused great inconvenience, and was the subject of 
serious complaint in the district. 
While the Society was making inquiries into the 
inclosure, the Lord of the Manor, the late Lord Rivers, 
commenced actions against three villavers who had 
