By the late F. A. Carrington, Esq. 



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Since LSO-1 the Chace has ceased to exist, except in farms and 

 enclosures, but some of the farm-houses which were keepers' lodges 

 still retain their original names. 



Copyholds and Woods. 



In the survey of the manor by John Twynyho, Surveyor of the 

 Manor 6 Edw. VI. (1552) the jury present as follows: — 



"It. that Evy [every] yardland cont. xxiiij acres may kepe [to turn on the 

 wastes] lx shepe and vij horse and Kother best [horned beasts] 



" It. Evy custome yard land must worke iiij mens worke with the f armour 

 in mede harvest and carr. one [load] of lorde hey and to wasshe and shere xv, 

 shepe apece and evy. halfe yarde lande do half the like. 



" Item ther be w th in the Chace vj copic [coppices] one called hillwood cont 

 xvj acr. of vij yeares growth — Middlerudge cont. vij acr of vi yeres growyth — 

 Standen cont x acr. of xl yeres growyth— The pke [park?] of Snape cont xx acr. 

 of x yeres growyth — Highwichell cont. xx acr iiij yeres growyth — Lower Wichel 

 cont. v. acres of xxx yeres growjth — S m . [sum] of the acres of woode w th in the 

 sayed Manner and Chace of Alborne iiij IX [four score] vij acres." 



The Town. 



In Sir John Poyntz's survey, 33 Eliz., in which the jury present 

 the boundaries of the manor of Aldbourne, they also present that 

 there are two lairs at Aldbourne, one on St. Edward's Day, and the 

 other on St. Mary Magdalene's Day, and "a weekly Tuesdaie 

 market kept in the Town of Alborn till within ten years last past 

 [1581] and sithence the same is and hath been discontinued.'''' 



The Cross. 



In what was the market square is a handsome cross, raised on 

 three steps. It was restored in the last century by a citizen of 

 London, but in the restoration the crucifix is placed at an angle 

 with the shaft to answer the purpose of a sun-dial, showing that 

 sometimes at least Eternity is made subservient to Time. 



The Battle. 



This occurred September 17th, 1643, between the raising of the 

 siege of Gloucester by the Earl of Essex and the Battle of Newbury 

 in which the Earl of Carnarvon, the Earl of Sunderland, and Lord 

 Viscount Falkland were killed. 



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