Section V Grounds disafforested shall be excluded out of Returns of Metes, &c.

Provided and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the grounds Territories or places which have beene or are Deafforrested or mentioned to be Deafforrested in or by any Letters Patents Charters or otherwise since the said twentieth yeare of the Reign of our said late Soveraign Lord King James shall be excluded and left out of the Meets Meers Limits and Bounds of the Forrests which are to bee enquired of returned and certified by vertue of the said Commissions or any of them respectively And shall be and hereby are declared and Enacted to be utterly Deafforrested free and exempt to all intents and purposes as if the same had never been at all Forrest or so reputed Any thing in this present Act contained or any other Act matter or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding