The Sporting Dictionary, and Rural Repository, Volume 1 (of 2) / Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field

by William Taplin

CHACE

.—A chace is, in general acceptation, considered a receptacle for game, interspersed with fern, thickets, underwood, and probably with small coverts, for its preservation. It is understood to be superior to a park, but inferior to a forest, having none of those laws for its protection. It is not unfrequently the property of a subject, and is then protected by its own manorial rights and privileges. Chaces there are, also, the property of the Crown; and those are generally regulated by the FOREST LAWS, as is the case with Cranbourne Chace, situate in Windsor Forest.