180 WIGLEY COMMON. 
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, 
