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contains within it many woodlands and lawns, and the great lodge 
where the grantees reside, and a smaller lodge called Goose Green ; and 
is abutted on by the parishes of Kingsley, Frinsham, Farnham, and 
Bentley ; all of which have right of common. 
One thing is remarkable, that though the Holt has been of old well 
stocked with fallow-deer, unrestrained by any pales or fences more than 
a common hedge, yet they were never seen within the limits of Wolmer ; 
nor were the red Seer of Wolmer ever known to haunt the thickets or 
glades of the Holt. 
At present the deer of the Holt are much thinned and reduced by 
the night hunters, who perpetually harass them in spite of the efforts 
of numerous keepers, and the severe penalties that have been put in 
force against them as often as they have been detected, and rendered 
liable to the lash of the law. Neither fines nor imprisonments can 
deter them ; so impossible is it to extinguish the spirit of sporting 
which seems to be inherent in human nature. 
General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his 
forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood, and, at one time, a 
wild bull or buffalo : but the country rose upon them and destroyed 
WILD BOAR. 
A very large fall of timber, consisting of about one thousand oaks, 
has been cit this spring (viz., 1784) in the Holt forest : one fifth of I 
which, it is said, belongs to the grantee. Lord Stawell. He lays claim 
also to the bp and top ; but the poor of the parishes of Binsted and 
Frinsham, Eentley and Kingsley, assert that it belongs to them, and 
assembling in a riotous manner, have actually taken it all away. Qne 
man, who kieps a team, has carried home for his share forty stacks of 
wood. Foriy-five of these people his lordship has served with actions. 
* " German boars and sows were also turned out by Charles I. in the New 
Forest, which bred and increased. Their stock is supposed to exist now, remark- 
able for the snallness of their hind-quarters." — Mitford's Edit. 
