Section IV When and how much shall be laid open, and by what Authority.

As much shall be inclosed anew as hath been been so opened.; Wood directed to be felled to be first viewed and marked by the Justices; Certificate to the Treasury.; Cutting Wood contrary to this Act; Penalty.; No Fee Trees to be claimed; The usual Fees in Deer.

And it is hereby further enacted and declared that att all times hereafter whensoever the Lord Treasurer of England or Commissioners of the Treasury or Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being shall att any time or times hereafter be satisfied and shall determine that the Woods and Trees which shall be growing on the said Eleven thousand Acres or any part thereof so to be inclosed as aforesaid are become past danger of the browsing of Deere Cattle or other prejudice and shall thinke fit to lay the same or any part thereof consisting of Five hundred Acres or more open and in Common shall cause the same to be soe done that then and soe often it shall and may be lawfull to and for the Kings Majesty his Heires and Successors from time to time to inclose in lieu of so much as shall be soe laid open out of the said Eleven thousand Acres the like quantity out of any other part of the residue of the said Wastes to be sett out by like Commission and Admeasurement as aforesaid and to be holden inclosed freed and discharged of and from all manner of Common Estovers Herbage or Pannage and other Rights excepting Fee Deere as aforesaid for soe long time as the same shall remain and continue inclosed according to the purport direction and intent of this present Act to be a Nursery for Timber as aforesaid instead of soe much as shall be laid open according to the direction aforesaid And whensoever any Wood or Timber shall att any time or times hereafter be directed to be fallen in any part of the Wastes of the said late Forrest inclosed or not inclosed the same shall be first viewed and allowed to be fallen by twoe or more of the Justices of the Peace for the said County unconcerned in the p[re]misses and shall not be cutt or fallen untill the same be viewed and allowed by such twoe or more Justices as fitt and convenient to be cutt and fallen and that the said Justices shall have marked with a broad Arrow and Crown that it may remain to be seen (as they are hereby required and impowered to do) so many and such Trees as are most fit to be p[re]served for growth for Timber upon every Acre intended to be fallen and alsoe shall have certified (as they are likewise hereby required to do) unto the Lord Treasurer or Lord Commissioners of the Treasury for the X1time being the names of the places and number of Trees soe viewed and allowed to be fallen and soe marked to be p[re]served as aforesaid And if any person or persons shall att any time or times hereafter either fell or cut downe any Wood or Trees upon the p[re]misses or any part thereof before such View Allowance and Certificate made thereof as aforesaid contrary to the true meaning of this present Act or shall after cut downe any of the said marked Trees without like allowance the person or persons so offending shall forfeit for every Tree so fallen the su[m]m of Twenty pounds to him or them who shall inform or sue for the same in any of his Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Essoyne Wager of Law or Protection shall be allowed to the Defendant And for further p[re]servation of the said Timber growing and to grow upon the p[re]misses no Officer or other person or persons whatsoever shall att any time hereafter have or claim any Fee Trees out of the said late Forrest upon any p[re]tence whatsoever but shall have and enjoye their usuall Fees in the Game of Deer of all parts of the said Wastes inclosed or not inclosed as formerly they have had Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding