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 370 C. j 8. Anno tricefimo quinto Henrici VIII. A. D. 1543. or Under-woods, and not above; any Thing contained in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithstanding. Where a Stnm- XIX. Provided alfo, and he it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if the Enclofure or Enclofures ger is Canfe of f any of the faid Coppice Woods, Under-woods or Grounds, happen to be broken or pulled down by an offence, he an y perfon or Perfons againft the Wills and Minds of the Owner or Owners, PoSfeffioner or Poffeffioners only ftall be ^ ^ 'fa mt Woods or Under- woods, whereby Cattle or Beafts efcape into the fame Woods, Grounds or pu Under-woods, and deftroy and hurt the Springs thereof, or if the fame Woods, Grounds or Under-woods be by any Means deftroyed, hurted or hindred by any manner of Perfon or Perfons, or by the Cattle or Beafts of any Perfon or Perfons, without the Affents, Minds and Wills of Such Owner or Owners, Pof- feffbr or PoSieSfors; that then and in every fuch Cafe the faid Penalties contained in this Act, to be extended upon the fame Perfon or Perfons in or by whofe Default the fame Spring, Wood or Under-wood fhall be fo deftroyed, hurted or hindred, and not upon the Owner or Owners, PoSTefibr or Poffeffors of the faid Woods, Grounds or Under-woods; any Thing contained in this Aft to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithstanding. Within two XX. Provided alfo, and be it furthermore enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That it fhall and may be Yeats, Colts lawful to every Owner and Owners, PofTeflbr and PofTeflbrs, their Farmors and Affigns, of all and angular and Calves may t ^ e ^ Woods, Under-woods, Grounds and Coppice, after fuch Time as the fame Woods, Under-woods, Woods' 10 en " Grounds and Coppice have been fenced and enclofed, or the Spring thereof otherwife preferved by the Altered by t} Space of two Years next after the felling thereof, to put Colts and Calves, being under the Age of one El. c 25. §/i8. Year, into the faid Woods, Under-woods, Grounds and Coppice; any Thing contained in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithstanding. 8 Co. 138. XXI. And this prefent Act and Acts to endure only by the Space of feven Years next after the faid Feaft Made kypetual ^ Q j ga j n( . j^ c / }ae i t [ le Archangel, and from thence until the End of the next Parliament. Far farther Promfwns concerning Woods, fee I EL c. 15. 23 El. c. 5. 27 Eh c. 19. 15 Car. 2. c. 2. 20 Car. 2. c. 3. 9 & 10 W. 3. c. 36. I Geo. I. c. 48. 6 Gee. I. c. 16. 29 Geo. 2. c. 36. ar.d 31 Geo. 2. c. 41. CAP. XVIII. EXP, The King's General Pardon of all Treafons, Felonies, Robberies, Offences, Contempts, Trefpaffes, Wrongs, EsV. faving fuch which be excepted, &c. confirmed by Parliament. Statutes made at Weftminfter, Anno 37 Hen. VIII. and Anno Dom. I 545- 4 STATUTES made in the Parliament hoklen iXWeJlmhifter the twenty-third Day of November in. ' ^^ the feven and thirtieth Year of the moil renowned Henry the Eighth, by the Grace of God, King ' **-' of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England, and alfo of ' Ireland, in Earth Supreme Head.' CAP. I. „ ,,, A Bill for Cuftos Rotulorum and the Clerkfhip of the Peace. Altered by 3 & 4 » r Rcfloredbyi w. ' K 7 HERE before this Time the Lord Chancellor of England for the Time being hath, by reafon of & M. flat. 1. ' W his Office of the Chancellorship, the Nomination and Appointment of the Cuftos Rotulorum within c ii. ' all and every Shire of this Realm of England and Wales, and other the King's Dominions, Marches and Who fhall ap- * Territories of the fame, (z) and that in like manner all and every Perfon which hath had and enjoyed the point the Cuftos < f a;j Office of the Cuftos Rctulorum, hath had, until now of late, the Nomination and Appointment of R °i ClerTof the ' the Clerk of the Peace within fuch Shires where he or they had and enjoyed the faid Office of the Cuftos Peace in every ' Roiidorum : (3) And where now of late divers and fundry Perfons within this Realm, being not learned, County. ' nor yet meet ne able for lack of Knowledge and Learning to occupy and exercife the faid Offices of the ties to whom the faid Several Grants have been fo made and granted, have not been Sufficiently learned to exercife and occupy the fame Office and Offices, many and Sundry Indictments, as well of Felony, Mur- ' der and other Offences and Mifdemeanors, and the Procefs awarded upon the fame Indictments, have not ' only been by reafon thereof made clearly fruftrate and void, Sometime by reafon of the negligent ingrof- 4 Sing and keeping oS the faid Indictments, and fometime by reafon of the imbezilling or Rafure of the ' fame Indictments, (4) but alfo divers and fundry Bargains and Sales of divers and fundry Manors, Lands ' and Tenements had and made between Party and Party, have been made fruftrate and void for lack of ' Sufficient Inrollment of the fame Bargains and Sales, to be had and made by the Clerks of the Peace, to ' the great Hindrance of Juftice, and to the Disinheritance of divers of the King's moil loving Subjects :' II. For Reformation whereof, and to the Intent that Juftice may be the better hereafter preferred, and that the fame Offices may hereafter be occupied and exercifed by Such Perfons learned in the Laws of this The Cufos Ro- Realm, as Shall be able to exercife and fupply the fame : (2) Be it enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, tuiorum lhall be with the Aflent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and of the Commons, in this prefent Parliament