In 1351, the first of a series of "ordonnances" was proclaimed, attempting to regularise the organisation of men-at-arms into units of 25 to 80 combatants.
Inhabitants were sometimes fined for encroaching (enclosing small areas) on the common although these may actually have been payments to regularise a new practice rather than a form of punishment.
Most pals battalions were decimated by the end of 1917 and beginning of 1918, and most were amalgamated into other battalions to regularise battalion strength.