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xxvii INTRODUCTION
privleges of the franchise. An apparently straightforward
conviction by the local magstrates in a case of deer-stealing in the
parish of Chettle was quashed on appeal in 1810. Lord Rivers's
bargaining position was thus weakened further. As the negotiations
with the commietee of Landowners gathered momentum
as outline agreement for the voluntarily surrender of the franchise
gave Lord Rivers, in compensation, an annual income of £1800
(but with no extra land) charged on the estates subject to
damage by the deer. This was approved by a meeting of the
landowners at the Crown Inn, Blandford in April 1826. A
barrister was appointed to assess the individual payments,
which became known 'Chase Rent'. In most cases the annual
payment has been amortised down the years but a feww instances
remain where the rent it still payed annualy.
To disfranchise Cranborne Cgase an Act of Parliament was
required. It was promoted as a private bill and came into force
on October 10, 1830, after which date the deer were at the
mercy of the owner of the land on which they stood. One of
John Eliot's tenants, William Hiscock, expressed the feelings of
many - though not of all - when he wrote:
I have been contemplating the hapiness of seeing the dere destroyed
and of an agreement for a general inclosure, which will remove all
stubborn disputes, promotes peace and presperity to the inhabitants of
Ashmore.
The destraction of the deer was undertaken swiftly and sometimes
recklessly. In Ashmore the total bag included Samuel
Stainer of Tollard Royal, who died of gunshot wounds. What
was undoubtedly a new era began in the woodlands, the fields
and downlands of Cranborne Chase. The deer became truly
wild unprotected animals, where they were not confined in
parks. They were never quite "exterminated", however: nor were
the poachers.
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