186 WIGLEY COMMON. 
entered upon the suit without any knowledge of it, and 
simply upon the fact that the tenants of Cadnam had 
in practice turned out their cattle on Wigley Common. 
Wigley had in some way lost its name, and the waste 
was described in the Ordnance Maps as Half Moon 
Common. 
On the same day that. the box was discovered, the 
Solicitors of the Commons Society, employed by Mr. 
Eyre, after vainly searching in the records of the Court 
of Chancery under the title of Half Moon Common, 
discovered under the title of Cadnam and Winsor a 
reference which resulted in the finding of the original 
decree in the Public Record Office. 
The decree was decisive on the point that the 
tenants of Cadnam had rights over Wigley Common. 
This could not be reopened. The only question in the 
new suit was whether the land which Mr. Stanley in- 
closed was part of the Wigley Common referred to in the 
decree. The Defendant expended much time and money 
in endeavouring to dispute this, but the decision of the 
Court was against him, and judgment was pronounced 
by Mr. Justice Field on August 8, 1882, in favour 
of Mr. Briscoe Eyre, and confirming the tenants of 
Cadnam in their rights of common over the waste 
of Wigley Manor. 
The present conditions of the two Manors present some 
interesting features. The Manor of Cadnam consists of 
493 acres of cultivated land in seventeen holdings of 
from three to sixty acres. Forty years ago there were 
as many separate owners, of whom the great majority 
