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A History of the County of Gloucester
… noted as characteristic of those of them who settled as squatters on the demesne itself. It manifested itself in a … and carpenters, and the invasion of the woodlands by squatters. Abuses in the exercise of the cordwood concessions … of commoners increased during the period, with the new squatters on the demesne and some men from parishes which had …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of six years to a free miner and that cabiners or squatters born in the Forest might obtain them by working …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the right to pasture animals on the demesne, and with squatters who established themselves there in makeshift … under an Act of 1668, removed the ironworks and illegal squatters, and added more effective elements to the … allowed wood stealing and encroachment to become rife. Squatters began to establish hamlets around the fringes of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… intentions for the Forest in the early 1660s, more squatters slipped back, and further measures were necessary. … the increasing slackness of the administration had allowed squatters to creep back once more, and the permanent …
A History of the County of Essex
… and meadow and pasture. 136 In the late 17th century squatters apparently built on the common waste; in 1670 five …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in the late 17th and the early 18th century, some by squatters. 87 In 1690 Silvester Killett owned a cottage next …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… tended to move to the heath. Some may have been squatters but most sought grants of the waste, which became …
A History of the County of Northampton
… There had probably been some incroachment on this waste by squatters in the Middle Ages but by the early 18th century, …
Henley: Origin and Development of the Town
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs