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excavations of loam and peat, and the cutting and 

 paring of turf to the supply for the inhabitants of the 

 parish. No inclosures were to be in future permitted, 

 save such as were temporarily necessary for the digging of 

 gravel. The Common was thus permanently saved from 

 inclosure and disfigurement. 



WIGLEY COMMON. 



In spite of the warnings which it was to be expected 

 would be drawn from the results of the many recent suits 

 respecting attempted inclosures of Commons, another 

 Lord of the Manor was found bold enough to encounter 

 the risk, and to inclose in one swoop the whole of 

 a Common in the neighbourhood of the New Forest. 

 There are two adjoining Manors there those of 

 Cadnam and Winsor, and Wigley. The wastes of 

 these Manors also adjoin, that of Cadnam and Winsor 

 being no more than 95 acres, and that of Wigley 

 about 460 acres ; they are separated only by a small 

 stream, which cattle can easily cross ; and as the 

 pasturage of Wigley is far better than that of Cadnam, 

 the cattle turned out on the latter generally find their 

 way to the former, in search of a good nibble, and the 

 Commoners of Cadnam have always claimed this as 

 a matter of right. 



These two Manors had in ancient times been in the 

 possession of the Prioress of Amesbury, a monastery 

 about twenty miles distant, and on the dissolution 

 of the religious houses, they were granted away by 

 Henry VIII., and passed through various hands, 



