Windsor Forest experienced disturbances when crown attempts to assert forest rights and restrict common grazing provoked complaints and minor disorders from commoners claiming traditional rights. While less dramatic than the Dean and Gillingham riots, the Windsor Forest disputes of the late 1620s were part of the same pattern of resistance to Caroline forest policy and contributed to the growing tensions between crown prerogative and local custom.
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