1626–1632 riots were followed by further riots at many of the same locations during the English Civil War and the following Interregnum as disafforestation proceeded...
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Leicester Forest (category Forests and woodlands of Leicestershire)
was sold in parts. The process of disafforestation caused riots among those affected by loss of rights to pasture and resources, as with other forests...
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Malvern Chase (category Forests and woodlands of Worcestershire)
being known as the Western Rising. Nevertheless, a decree was issued in 1632 for the "disafforestation of the Chace of Malvern, and for freeing the lands...
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Feckenham Forest (category Forests and woodlands of Worcestershire)
Droitwich, and was quite reduced by the time it was disafforested during the reign of King Charles I in 1629. The process of disafforestation created considerable...
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Royal forest (category Forests and woodlands of England)
Gillingham, Braydon and Dean, known as the Western Rising. Riots also took place in Feckenham, Leicester and Malvern. The riots followed the physical...
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Enclosure (redirect from Enclosure riots)
commons when the forests were divided and enclosed. The majority of the disafforestation took place between 1629 and 1640, during Charles I of England's...
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Forest of Dean (category Forests and woodlands of Gloucestershire)
of the Forest of Dean was disafforested in the 1620s, causing a series of riots in 1631–32; this was part of enclosure riots across the South West commonly...
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Charles I of England (redirect from Charles I of England and Scotland)
pasture and arable farming, or in the case of the Forest of Dean, development for the iron industry. Disafforestation frequently caused riots and disturbances...
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Leicester (section Areas and suburbs)
sent to commission the disafforestation and division of lands being used in common. Riots destroyed enclosures in spring 1627 and 1628, following a pattern...
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programmes to disafforest these areas. The focus of the programme was disafforestation and sale of forest lands for development as pasture and arable, or...
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townships which were established in 1507 following disafforestation; those of Old Accrington and New Accrington; which were merged in 1878 with the incorporation...
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Malvern Hills (section Sport, leisure, and tourism)
ensued when King Charles I attempted to disafforest the Chase in 1630. Ultimately, only one third was disafforested, and commissioners were appointed to ensure...
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Relief Act 1829, and contrast the Gordon Riots following the Papists Act 1778. cf Ahmad v Inner London Education Authority [1978] QB 38, and Redfearn v Serco...
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the lands, used as commons, resulted in riots, part of a pattern of disturbances that ran across the disafforested royal lands. In 1633, the Court of Exchequer...
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