Commons of Wildmore and West Fen, Lincolnshire. Commons of parliament. The commons...

Petitioners

Commons of Wildmore and West Fen, Lincolnshire.

Addressees

Commons of parliament.

Nature of request

The commons of the marshes of Wildmore and West Fen in Lincolnshire state that since pigs have been pastured in the marshes, the soil dug up and the grass ruined, so that oxen, cattle, horses and sheep can no longer be kept in the marshes over the winter, as they used to. They ask the commons to ask the King that, in consideration of this, and with the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and by authority of parliament, to ordain by proclamation in the adjoining vills that no pigs should henceforth be pastured in the marshes between Martinmas and 12 May, on pain of forfeiture of the pigs to the lords of the marshes, and that all pigs there at present should be removed within twenty days; and that this ordinance might last for six years.

Nature of endorsement

[On face] [Let it be sent to the] lords.[On dorse] The King will be advised.

Places mentioned

Wildmore Fen, Lincolnshire

West Fen, Lincolnshire.

For transcript, see p.193 of PRO 31/7/155