Section IX and for Right of Common of Pasture, &c. in the Forest.

After Michaelmas 1716, Right of Common of Pasture continued in Waste Ground; Times excepted; Right of Fuel to adjacent Inhabitants, provided they do not sell the same, &c.

Provided always and it is hereby enacted and declared. That all and every Person and Persons having any right of Common of Pasture or Pannage or any Priviledges within the said Forest or any Part thereof shal hold and enjoy the same in manner following (that is to say) their said right of Pannage (viz) between the Fourteenth X1Day of September and the Eleventh Day of November yearly from and after the Feast of S^t. Michael the Arch Angel which shal be in the Yeare of our Lord God One thousand and seven hundred and sixteen and not before on Forfeiture of any Hog Pigg or Swine that from and after the Feast of S^t. Michael the Arch Angel next and before the time aforesaid shal be found in the Wasts of the said Forest and their said right of Common of Pasture shal be and is hereby continued to them in and through such of the said Waste Ground of the said Forest at such time and times as the same shal not be inclosed as aforesaid the time of the Fence-month (that is to say) Fifteen Days before and Fifteen Days after the Feast of Saint John the Baptist yearly and the time of the Winter Heyning (that is to say) from the Eleventh Day of November to the Twenty third of April yearly excepted under and subject to the Forest Laws in as ample manner as he or they or any of them might lawfully claim or might have held & enjoyed the same before the making of this Act saving also unto the several adjacent Inhabitants their ancient right of Fuel provided that such Inhabitants do not sell or otherwise dispose of any part thereof nor that any Person or Persons presume to receive or take the same in other manner than they ought nor by reason of any Claim or Pretence of Right that was not allowed according to the Laws of the Forest before the Seven and twentieth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.