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same, and whereas the said Lord Rivers, in right of the said 
Chase, hath constantly exercised a privilege of feeding and 
preserving the deer within the said Chase, and the number of 
deer now fed and preserved therein, it is computed, amounts 
to upwards of twelve thousand, but does not exceed twenty 
thousand, and the deer range over the property of the different 
proprietors of land, within the limits of the Chase, and whereas 
the exercise uf such privileges and of feeding and preserving 
deer in right of Chase is extremely injurious to the owners of 
lands within the limits of the Chase, and is a great hindrance 
to the cultivation of such lands, and tends greatly to demoralise 
the habits of the labouring classes and of the inhabitants 
residing in and near the Chase; and whereas the said Lord 
Rivers is willing to accept the clear yearly sum of eighteen 
hundred pounds, as a compensation and satisfaction for the 
extinguishing of his said rights; . 2) .?— 
The Act proceeded to enact that ‘“thenceforward all 
right of feed and range of deer, and all privileges of 
protecting them within the limits of the Chase, and 
all franchises and privileges in respect of the Chase, 
should cease, determine, and be for ever extinguished, 
and the Chase should thenceforward be disfranchised.” 
In return for this a charge was imposed on the property 
within the Chase for the yearly sum of eighteen hundred 
pounds, in favour of Lord Rivers. The statute, how- 
ever, expressly reserved all other rights. 
Even to a late period, subsequent to this Act, deer 
are said to have roamed over the district, and to have 
found covert not unfrequently on Tollard Farnham 
Common. The whole of the parish of Tollard Farnham 
was in the Chase of Cranbourne. The Chase rolls are 
extant from an early year of Edward III. They 
