214 TOLLARD FARNHAM. 
hands of successive Sovereigns till they were granted 
by Henry III. to the De Clares, Earls of Hertford 
and Gloucester. On the death of the last male of this 
family, they descended to his three sisters co-heiresses. 
A partition was then made of De Clare’s lands, and 
Cranbourne Chase and Manor fell to the lot of Elizabeth, 
wife of John De Burgh, and from her descended through 
the De Mortimers, Earls of March, Plantagenet, Earl of 
Cambridge, and Richard, Duke of York, till they vested 
in King Edward IV. They remained in the possession 
of the Crown till 1611, when James I. granted them to 
the Earl of Salisbury, from whom the Manor, but not 
the Chase, has come down to the present owner, the 
Marquis of Salisbury. The Manor of Tollard Farnham, 
we learn from an early survey, dated 6 Edward VLI., 
was held of the Manor of Cranbourne by knight 
service, by the Earl of Pembroke. lJater it was pur- 
chased by Sir Thomas Arundel, in whose family it 
remained till 1820, when it was sold by the then 
Lord Arundel to Lord Rivers. 
In 1828 the Chase of Cranbourne, which had been 
separated from the Manor, and was vested in Lord 
Rivers, was disfranchised, in the sense that all rights of 
sporting were done away with. The Act effecting this 
states in its preamble that Lord Rivers claimed to be 
the owner of 
“a certain Franchise or Chase called Cranbourne Chase, ex- 
tending over divers Manors, and a large tract of land, situate in 
the counties of Dorset and Wilts, and as such owner is possessed 
of divers valuable and extensive rights and privileges over the 
