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and Kitner rydinge further in uppon the salde 

 common towards a company of the complainant's 

 sheepe, to the number of fyftie or thereabouts as he 

 thinketh, quiethe depasturing uppon the saide 

 common aboue halfe a myle from the neerest bounds 

 of the saide Forest which sheepe weare used nightUe 

 to be folded by the complainant in his ingrownds 

 parcell of his coppihold tenement in Porlock and 

 when they came neere the saide sheepe they made 

 a staye and the saide sheepe ran togeather towards 

 the bounds of the saide Forest and this deponent 

 further sayth that he goinge further towards the 

 saide forest to seeke the saide cattle saw John 

 Pearce one other of the defendants and William 

 Waterhouse, nowe deceased, lying in Blackborowe, 

 being a noted bounde betweene the saide common of 

 Porlock and the said Forest of Exmore, and there 

 horses grassing by them theare." 



After this, in a high-handed manner, they drove 

 Slowlev's sheep from Porlock Common, where they 

 had a right to be, on to the forest, where they had no 

 business. Pearce' s men then drove them off to 

 Withypool and put them in the forester's pound 

 there, and Pearce declined to let them go again ; 

 hence the action. Evidence was given that the 

 same Kingdon, wiio was a servant of Pearce, was, 

 on another occasion, found driving rother beasts — 

 that is, horned cattle — from Porlock Common 

 towards the forest, and of his violent and abusive 

 language when stopped. We also learn that Robert 



