Section XXIV General Saving of Rights to the Duke of Beaufort and other Persons.

Saving always and reserving unto his Grace Henry Duke of Beaufort and to the Right Honorable Charles Marquesse of Worcester Son and Heire Apparent to the said Duke of Beaufort and the Right Honorable Anthony Earle of Kent and to the Towne of Monmouth and to all other Person or Persons and their respective Heirs Successors & Assigns all Rights Royalties Tolls Liberties and Priveledges of Fishing or otherwise in or upon the said River of Wye which they or any of them respectively have had or enjoyed and of right ought to have enjoy or use in or upon the said River by virtue of any Grant or Grants Prescriptions or Usage or any other lawfull Ways or Means whatsoever before the making this present Act of Parliament And that they respectively and their respective Heires Successors and Assigns shall and may have and enjoy the same Rights Royalties Liberties & Priveledges as aforesaid in and upon the said River as fully freely and beneficially to all Intents and Purposes and by the same lawfull Ways and Means as they or any of them respectively might or ought to have done before the making this Act of Parliament (other then by keeping up maintaining or useing their or any of their Wears in the said River appointed to be purchased of them and to be demolished) Any thing in this present Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding and as if this present Act hadd never been hadd or made.