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| Rookley Rockley "Agriculture on the Island", and came across the following paragraph..............Rabbits seem inevitably to attract poachers. At midnight on the 23rd November 1384 two warreners on Geoffrey Roucle's land at Brooke, surprised a poaching party which would not have been out of place five hundred years later. Three men were caught laying out nets and using ferrets in the warren. They were armed with bows and arrows and opened fire on the warreners, who returned it, wounding Thomas Smythe in the forehead. It was his subsequent death that ensured that this episode was recorded................ | ||||
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