Item: we find that Mr. Bykardyck hath plowed up the more part of a balk behind the Black Friars of VII feet broad ... and he hath ditched it at both ends. Item: we find that Queen’s College have taken a piece of common ground commonly called Gosling Green without recompense. Item: we find that Mr. Fanne hath in his hands a piece of marsh ground now severalled, which was common within these XVI years, the rent is VIId. Item: we find that beyond Styrbrydge Chapel, Dytton men have pulled down a bridge, stopped the water, drowned the commons and so enter upon Cambridge common. Item: we find that Mr. Kymbalde hath walled and ditched upon the highway in Barnwell, whereby the said way is much straitened. Mem.: of a common balk through a pasture ground adjoining next to Rutland’s house in Little St. Mary’s now inhabited by R. Tomlynson, which balk should be a way to go to Thomas leys and so forth on balks to Jesus Green, etc., which pasture is now purchased by the town, etc. RIOTERS’ BALLAD JAKE OF THE NORTH (Cooper, II, p. 40) JAKE OF THE NORTH: ... Company by night I take And with all that I may make Cast hedge and ditch in the lake Fixed with many a stake. Though it were never so fast Asunder it is wraste. Thus I Jake do recompense Their naughty slanderous offence[26]. * * * * * As I am a true speaker, I am but a Hedge breaker. * * * * * How sayest thou Robin Clout? Is this night well wrought? ROBIN CLOUT: Yea, sir without doubt ... It is as ye do say ... Methought it but a play To see the stakes fast stray Down into the ray Swimming evermore away, Sailing toward the castle Like as they would wrastle For superiority Or else for the Mayoralty. JAKE: Truth now thou dost say It was even worth a play To see the stakes jombling And in the water tumbling. And fast away they hied Lest they should have been spied And with a boat been followed And with a serjeant arrested For to come to the Mayor In all gudly affair ... How sayst Tom of Trumpington? TOM OF TRUMPINGTON: Forsooth sir down to Chesterton[27] Great store of stakes be gone Swimming thither one by one. Glad they have escaped And not of the baillies attached. Wherefore they hied them hence Paying yet no toll pence Witness Robin with the red nose And Benet with the blue hose And Francis few clothes Ye affirm the same I suppose? BUNTYNGE: Sir I think that this work Is as good as to build a kirk For Cambridge Baillies truly Give ill example to the country Their commons likewise for to engrose And from poor men it to enclose. JAKE: How sayest thou Peter Potter? Is here good hunting of the otter? PETER POTTER: