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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 any 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 
