TOLLARD-ROYAL, a parish partly in that part of the hundred of CRANBORNE which is in the Shaston (West) division of the county of DORSET, but chiefly in, the; hundredof CHALK, county of WILTS, 6 miles (S. B. by E.) from Shaftesbury, containing 288 inhabit- nts. . The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £16, and iathe patronage of - Austin, Esq., The church is dedicated to St. Peter. In this parish is an old farmhouse, called King John's hunting seat, thought, to be the remains of an ancient royal residence for hunting in Crahborne Chase.