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had in those days brought a suit to determine their 

 rights against the Lord of the Manor of "Wigley, 

 William Poulett ; in this they graphically said, " that 

 the said Complaynants were poore Coppieholders of the 

 Manor of Cadnam and Winsor, and their whole estates 

 and livynge depended upon the same, soo that yf they 

 should be abridged of their ancyent customs it would 

 be their utter undoinge." They claimed that 



"The Custom of the Manor of Wigley was, by all the 

 tyme aforesaid begune, that the Coppeholde and customarie 

 tenants of the Mannor of Cadnam had and ought to have comon 

 of pasture for all their cattell that they doe reare and breade 

 upon their Coppeholde and customarie landes and tenements 

 within the said Manor, as well in and upon the Comon fieldes 

 belonginge to the said Mannor, as in the waste ground of 

 Wigley, and in those places that in ancyent time the tenants 

 of the said Mannor have used to have Comon of pasture in 

 as large and benefecyall manner as their ancestors tenants of the 

 said Mannor have used to have and enjoye the same." 



The suitors then alleged that Poulett, having bought 

 the Manor, and seeking to make the best advantage 

 thereof, had impugned the customs set forth, and among 

 other things, " utterly refused to permit the said com- 

 plainants to have an}*- Common of pasture for their 

 cattle in the waste lands and in the places where they 

 had usually had Common." 



The Defendant in his answer, after alleging his 

 purchase of the Manor, traversed the customs alleged, 

 and in particular, " that the said Coppieholders ought to 

 have, comon of pasture for their cattell in the ffeilds 



