Section XXIX Recital that the said Earl of Kent or his Ancestors had made Grants of Fishings, and that there might be Suits, &c. concerning the same.

All such Grants, &c, declared void.

And whereas the said Anthony Earle of Kent his Heirs and Assigns are by virtue of this present Act debarred from taking any Fish in the said Wear Lock or Forge and hee the said Earle of Kent or his Ancestors having made Grants for Lives or Yeares or for Yeares determinable upon Lives to several of his Tenants and others of Fishings in the said River of Wye att or neare the Place where the said Wear Forge or Lock now stands and in several other Parts of the said River which has been little or no Advantage to them and least that there may be any Suits and Controversies for the future between the said Earle his Heires or Assigns and the said Grantees or Lessees of the said Fishings the said Earle being willing to repay the said Grantees or Lessees or those interested in the said Fishings what Fines they have respectively paid for such Leasses or Grants Therefore for the better enabling the said Earle of Kent his Heires and Assignes to execute such Matters and Things as by this Act hee is obliged to doe Itt is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Articles Contracts Covenants Leases and Grants for any Number of Yeares Lives or for Yeares determinable upon Lives made to and with any Person or Persons by the said Earle or any of his Ancestors of for or concerning any Fishing Royalty of Fishing Liberty of fishing or taking Salmons or other Fish in any part of the said River shall from and after the Foure and twentieth Day of June in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety six be absolutely void and of none Effect.