Section XXXV Lords of Manors and Owners of Wastes and Commons may improve, &c.
Differences arising concerning Boundaries, &c. to be settled by Commissioners upon View or Examination of Witnesses upon Oath, or upon both.; Determination certified into the Petty Bag, and final.; How Allotments under such Decree held.
And to the end that the Owners of the Commons and Wasts in the said Levell X1and other Townes Parishes and Places unto which the Workes aforesaid or any of them doe extend may improve the same by making Divisions and Inclosures Bee it provided and enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may bee lawfull for any Person or Persons Body Politique or Corporate whatsoever their Heires and Successors that are or shalbee Lords of Mannors or have or shall have Rights of Coo[m]mon in the said Wasts to improve sett out inclose divide and sever such Proportion or Proportions as to them shall or may severally or respectively belong or appertaine or bee adjudged and allotted out of the said Coo[m]mons and Wasts within the said Levell or within any Towne Parish or Place into which the Workers aforesaid or any of them doe extend and to hold such Proporcc[i]oon in Severalty at all Times of the Yeare and all Differences that shall arise concerning the Boundaryes of the Wasts Rights of Coo[m]mon Approvements Allottments Divisions and Inclosures shall from tyme to tyme and at all tymes be determined adjudged and finally ended by the said Comissioners for the tyme being or any seaven or more of them upon their View or Examination of Witnesses upon Oath (which they are hereby authorized to administer) or upon both and hearing of Parties concerned by theire Adjudicacc[i]oon under their Hands and Seales in Writing, which Determination and Judgment being certified into the Petty Bagg there to bee filed & kept on Record shall be finall and conclusive unto all Partyes And the Allottments Divisions and Proportions soe adjudged or decreed to be held by the said respective Persons to whom they are soe sett out shall be held by him or them and his & their Heires Executors and Assignes respectively according to his or their Tenure or Tenures Estate Title or Interest they had in the Mannors Tenements and Lands for which they claymed the said Proportions of Coo[m]mon as abovesaid X2paying such Fines and Rents and doing such Services in Proportion for the same as by Custome or otherwise they are to pay or doe and doe for the Mannors Tenements and Lands for which they clayme the same Proportion having such respect to the yearely Values of the one and the other as shall (if need soe require) be limitted by seaven or more of the Comissioners.
Annotations
Editorial notes
- X1
interlined.
- X2
annexed in a separate Schedule.