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lument might hang to this appointment, yet are there reafons why- 
it might be highly acceptable ; and, in a few reigns after, it was 
given to princes of the blood s. In old days gentry refided more 
at home on their eftates, and, having fewer refources of elegant 
in-door amufement, fpent moft of their leifure hours in the field 
" Alyfholt, a.ni. Ne'weForeJl; nor to any perfon for vvafte, &c. within the manor of WarJ- 
" lam, or parirti of Wardlam \}Vardleham\ ; nor to abufmg, &c. of any office or fee, 
" within the fald forefts of Wolmer or Alyjholt, or the fald park, of Wardlam:'' — County 
Suth't. Rolls prefixt to iff Vol. of Journals of the Lords, p. xciii. b. 
To thefe may be added feme other particulars, taken from a book lately publiflied, 
entitled " An Account of all the Manors, Meffuages, Lands, &c. in the different 
" Counties of England Sind Wales, held by Leafe from the Crown; as contained in the 
" Report of the Commiffioners appointed to inquire into the State and Condition of the 
«' Royal Forefts," &c. London, 1787. 
" Southampton." 
£. s. d. 
P. 64, " A fee-farm rent of 31 a 11 out of the manors of Eaft and Weft 
" IVardleham ; and alfo the oflice of lieutenant or keeper of the foreft or chafe of Aliceholt 
" and Wolmer, with all offices, fees, commodities, and privileges thereto belonging. 
" Names of lefTees, William earl oi Dartmouth and others (in truft.) 
" Date of the laft leafe, March 23, 1780 ; granted for fuch term as would fill up the 
" fubfifting term to 31 years. 
*' Expiration March 23, 1811." 
*' Appendix, N°. III." 
" Southampten." 
" Hundreds — Selborne and Finch deane.^'' 
" Honours and manors," &c, 
" Aliceholt foreft, three parks there. 
" Benjied and Kingjley ; a petition of the parifliioners concerning the three parks in 
" Aliceholt foreft." 
William, firft earl oi Dartmouth, and paternal grandfather to the prefent lord Staivel, 
was a leffee of the forefts of Aliceholt and Wolmer before brigadier- general Emanuel Scroope 
Ho-ive. 
e See Letter II. of thefe Antiquities, 
and 
