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 4 C. 7. Aniio viceiimo fexto Henrici VIII. A. D. 1534 Where and to vliom any Of- fender taken in Wales (nail be delivered. Set the References to Chapter iv. 'Highways in Sulfcxfliallbe amended. 14 & 15 H. 8. c. 6. Any Perfon may 3ay out a new Way in his own Ground in the Weld of Kent by the Confent of two JufHces of Peace, &c. and keep feveral the old. Certificate (hall be made into Chancery of the r.ew Way. They which have any Way through the old Way may ufe it. 1 Haw. P. C. 200. Sum, Vol. I. The Statute of 14&15H.8. c. 6, touching 6 XIII. And where heretofore upon clivers Murthers, Robberies andTelonies perpetrated and done, a. " well within the Lordfhips Marchers of Wales, as in other Places of Wales without the fame Lordfhips 6 committed, and have repaired and reforted into another Lordfhip Marcher, and there by the Aid, Com- 6 fort and" Favour of the faid Lord of the fame Lordfhip, or his Officer or Officers, have been abiding anc ' reliant, into the which Lordfhips the fame Lords Marchers have and do pretend a Cuftom and Privilege. ' that none of the King's Minifters or Subjects may enter, to purfue, apprehend and attach any fuch Of- < fender thereunto repaired, as is aforefaid, by reafon whereof the fame Offenders went unpunifhed, to the 6 Animation and Encouraging of other evil-difpofed People :' (2) It is therefore enacted by the Authority above faid, That every Off cer and Officers, and their Deputies, upon Commandment given by the Com- miffioners or Council of the Marches for the Time being, fhall bring, fend or deliver every fuch Offendei to the Officer of the Lordfhip Marcher, or other Place, where any fuch Offence is or fhall be committee or done, upon the Metes and Bounds of the faid Lordfhips, or to the faid Commiflioners or Council, ac- cording as to the faid Officers by them fhall be commanded, under Pain of xl. li. the faid Commandment or Commiffion to be directed to any fuch Officer, to be fent, conveyed and delivered by a Serjeant at Arms, or a Purfevant, attendant on the faid Council in the Marches for the Time being. CAP. VIl. The Bill for the Highways in the County of Sujfex. HERE it is ordained and enacted by Authority of this prefent Parliament heretofore holden at > London the fifteenth Day of April in the fourteenth Year of the King's moft noble Reign, and from thence adjourned to Weftminjler the laft Day of July the fifteenth Year of his Reign, and there holden : in Confideration that many common Ways in the Weld of Kent be fo deep and noyous by wearing and Courfe of Water, and other Occafions, that People cannot have their Paffages and Carriages by Horfes upon or by the fame, but to their great Pains, Perils and Jeopardy ; (2) that if any Perfon or Perfons from that Time, in any Place within the faid Weld of the faid County, of his good Mind and Difpofitiorr, without any Value of Good by hiiri or by them to be received for the fame, will, for the common Weal of the King's People, affign and lay out a more commodious Way in and over the Lands thereunto adjoining, whereof the Perfon or Perfons, or other to his Ufe, fhall be feifed of Fee in Eftate of Inheritance, that the fame new Way, fo to be afligned and laid out, by Overfight and AfTent of two Juftices of the Peace of the faid County, and twelve other difcreet Men within the fame Hundred inhabiting, where any fuch new Way fhall be limited and laid out, or inhabiting within the fame Hundred, and other Hundreds to the faid Hundred next adjoining, fhall be from thenceforth holden, occupied and ufed in like Manner as the faid old Way there now is, or before hath been ; (3) and that alfo the fame Perfon or Perfons fo dif- pofed, willing and accomplifhing, fhall and may, for the fame new Way fo afligned and ufed, receive and hold, in way of Recompence for the fame new Way fo to be given, the Soil and Ground of the old Way in feveralty to them, their Heirs and Affigns, to their own Ufe and Profit for ever, without any common Way or PafTage therefrom thenceforth to be had or claimed, any Prefcription or Ufe to the con- trary notwithftanding, in like Manner and Form as is limited by the faid Aft, of a certain new Way granted by I he fame Act to be made by George Gilford, Efquire, at Hempjlead in the faid Weld of Kent. (4) And that the two faid Juftices of Peace, and twelve other difcreet Men, by whofe Overfight and Affent the faid new Way, by Virtue of the faid Act, fhall be afligned, limited and laid out, fhall, within three Months next after the Affignment, Limitation and laying out of the fame, make Certificate into the King's moft honourable Court of Chancery, under their Seals, of the Length and Breadth of the faid new Way or Street, and of other Things adjoining or concerning the fame, as by their Difcretions fhall be thought moft expedient or requifite for the common Wealth of that Country to be certified ; (5) and that Certificate to be made from Time to Time, as oft as any fuch new Way or Street fhall be afligned, limited and laid out in Form above written. ' II. Provided alway, That if any Perfon or Perfons, or Body Politick, have or ought to have, or here- after fhall have any Church-way, or other whatfover Way or PafTage, over or through any manner Lands adjoining to any the faid old Ways or Streets, which fhall be taken and ufed by Force of that Act as fe- veral Soil and Freehold in Recompence for any new Way to be made and laid out in Form aforefaid, or have or ought to have, or hereafter fhall have, any Lands or Tenements adjoining to the old Way; that they and every of them, their Heirs and Succeffors, fhall and may have and ufe their faid Way or Ways out of and in the faid new Way, over and through the Land of the faid old Way or Street, into or over the faid Lands or Tenements adjoining to the fame, and fo to pafs and repafs, as fhall appertain over the fame old Way, at fuch convenient Place or Places thereof, as therefore fhall be limited and afligned by the faid two Juftices of Peace and other twelve Men, and by them to be certified in the Chancery, among other Things by them to be certified in Form aforefaid, any Thing in the faid Act above written notwith' ' Handing, as by the faid Act manifeftly appeareth. ' III. And forafmuch as in many Places within the County of Sujfex' like Act for the Alteration of com- ' Wealth and Commodity of the King's Subjects of the faid County of Suffix to be had and made :' In Confideration whereof, be it ordained and enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by Authority of the fame, That the faid Act above rehearfed and recited fhall and may from henceforth extend, take Effect and be put ,in Execution in every Place convenient or neceflary within the faid County of Sujfex, where the Ways and
 * the Offenders divers Times flee and efcape from the fame Lordfhip or other Place where fuch Offence wa;
 * mon Ways and Streets there, being much annoyous, is much neceflary and expedient for the common