Braydon Forest in north Wiltshire was enclosed and disafforested under a royal patent in the late 1620s, provoking riots in 1630-1631. Foresters calling themselves by the symbolic name Lady Skimmington pulled down enclosure ditches and threatened the patent holders officers. The Braydon riots were prosecuted in Star Chamber and the ringleaders fined and imprisoned, but the disturbances continued intermittently.
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