Neroche Forest on the Somerset-Dorset border was subject to disafforestation pressure in the 1620s, provoking riots among the forest commoners. The Neroche rioters pulled down fences and drove off surveyors in 1627 in a pattern identical to the Gillingham and Braydon disorders. Somerset justices struggled to enforce crown forest policy against determined popular resistance.
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