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Rh the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Soon after they disappeared from the Parish, their estate passed into the hands of the Lord of the Manor of Chesham, whose estates adjoined, and by whose family it has since been leased as a farm,—the little chapel having for some years past served as a brewhouse.

The notes and investigations, a portion of which have afforded us the materials and pedigrees for this paper, developed the fact that the families of Chase are as small, indeed the name is as rarely found—at the present day in the Mother Country—as it is numerous and wide spread throughout the United States.