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530 Waters before mentioned and expressed; (5) but that it shall be lawful at all seasonable Time and Times hereafter, for such as have or shall have any manner of Interest therein, to take and fish the said Rivers and Waters, in such Manner and Form as heretofore hath been used and accustomed, not using any Net or Engine, to the Intent willingly to take, kill and destroy the Spawn, Breed or Fry, breeding any Kind within the said Several Rivers or Waters; this Act, or anything therein mentioned or con- tained within to the contrary notwithstanding. [Made perpetual except as to this last Section, by 3 Car. 1. c. 4]

P. XVIII.

P. XIX.

HE Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, perceiv- ing how necessary it is for the Imperial Crown of this Realm to be repaired with the Rstitution of Revenues meet for the same, and having assented and fully accorded to restore to the same Imperial Crown the First-fruits and Tenths of Parsonages impropriate, for the Increase of the Revenue thereof, be also desirous to devise some good Means, whereby the said Revenue of Tenths and Impropriate Benefices might be in the Governance and Dispofition of the Clergy of this Realm, being most apt for the same, in such Sort as yet thereby the said Imperial Crown should not be in any wise diminished in the said restored Revenue.'

II. And therefore beseech your Majesty, That it may be enacted by the Authority of this present Parlia- ment, in Manner and Form hereafter following ; that is to say, upon the Vacation and Avoidance of every Archbishoprick or Bishoprick within this your Realm of England and Wales, and other your Highness Do- minions, it shall and may be lawful for your Highness, to elect and choose, and to take into your Hands and Real Possession, as much and so many of any the Honours, Castles, Manors, Lands, Tenements or other Hereditaments, being Parcel of the Possessions of any such Archbishoprick or Bishoprick so being void, as clear yearly Value of all your Majesty's Parsonages Appropriate and yearly Tenths within every such Archbishoprick or Bishoprick shall yearly amount and extend unto ; and for the Tryal of every Value of such Honours, Castles, Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, it shall and may be lawful for your Highness from Time to Time, to direct your Letters of Commission under your Highness Great Seal of England into every such Archbishoprick or Bishoprick, fso being void, to such Persons as your Majesty think meet and convenient, giving them Authority thereby to survey such Honours, Castles, Ma- nors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, Parcel of the Possessions of the same Archbishoprick or Bifhoprick so being void, as to your Majesty shall be thought meet and convenient to be taken into your Highness Hands and Possession, and thereupon to certify the very clear yearly Value thereof, over all Charges and Reprises, into your Highness Court of Exchequer, at such Day and Time as by the said Commission shall be limited and appointed ; and after such Certificate into the said Court of Exchequer of the clear yearly Value of such Honours, Castles, Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, fo had and made, it shall and may be lawful for your Highness, by your Letters Patents, to give and assure unto such Archbishop and Bishop, and his Successors, as shall be preferred and consecrated Archbishop or Bishop of such Archbishoprick or Bishoprick so being void, so much and so many of your yearly Tenths, Tithes and Parsonages appropriated, being within the same Archbifsoprick or Bishoprick, as shall be of as much, or of more yearly Value, as the said Honours, Castles, Manors, Lands, Tenements or Heredita- ments, so certified into your said Court of Exchequer, be certified unto; and that immediately upon such Gift and Grant made by your Highness, and the same by your Majesty under your Signet or Sign Manual signified unto your Treasurer and Barons of your said Court of Exchequer, together with your Pleasure for the Retaining and Keeping of the said Honours, Castles, Manors, Lands, Tenements or other Heredita- ments so certified unto your said Court of Exchequer, in Lieu and Place of the said Tenths, Tithes and Parsonages appropriate, the same and such Honours, Castles, Manors, Lands, Tenements and other He- reditaments, as so shall then be certified into your said Court of Exchequer, shall be adjudged, vested and deemed, by Authority of this present Parliament, actually and really in your Highness, your Heirs and Successors, and be from thenceforth united and annexed to the Imperial Crown of this your Realm for ever, and from thenceforth shall be in the Order, Survey, Rule and Governance of your said Court of Exchequer, in such like Manner and Form, as other your Highness Possessions and Hereditaments be at this present.

III. Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, that this Act, or any Thing herein contained, shall not extend to give any Liberty or Authority to your Highness, to take from any such Arch- bishoprick or Bishoprick any of the Mansion-Houses, commonly used for the Habitation or Dwelling of any such Archbifsop or Bishop, or any the Demean Lands commonly used or occupied with any such Mansion