216 TOLLARD FARNHAM. 
contain many presentments of offences against the deer 
and wood. Many of them relate to Tollard Farnham. 
For several years a Chase officer, called a verderer, was 
sworn for it, and attended the Leet Courts. 
There can be no doubt that, from time imme- 
morial, the inhabitants of Tollard Farnham had in fact 
exercised the custom or right of cutting furze and hazel 
wood, called ‘ haskets,”’ on the waste lands of the Manor 
from Old Michaelmas Day till Old Lady Day, and that 
they derived from this source their only supply of fuel. 
The case, therefore, closely resembled that of the 
Loughton rights of lopping trees in Epping Forest, 
which have already been described, the only difference 
being that Cranbourne Chase was held by a private 
owner and not by the Crown. It had, however, often 
been in the possession of the Crown, and there was no 
more reason why a grant from the Crown should not 
have been presumed in the Tollard Farnham case than 
in that of Loughton. 
Up to the year 1850 the parish of Tollard Farnham 
was a very interesting case of common-field cultivation. 
The parish consisted of 950 acres, of which 300 acres 
were held in severalty; 224 acres were in copses or 
woodlands in the hands of the Lord of the Manor; 
159 acres were in Common, the waste lands of the 
Manor; and 267 acres were laid out in common fields, 
which were allotted amongst the tenants of the Manor, 
and held by them in severalty for purposes of tillage ; 
these were farmed upon the three-course system: one 
part being in wheat, another in barley, and a third 
