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 628 G. 4* 5- Anno xxvi Regrn* Elizabeths. A. D. 1581. LX.^ Provided always- ami b ■ it enacted bv the Authority aforefaid, That it {hall be lav/fid for theTuf- tices.Clerlg-,, authorized by their Warrant, in the faid feveral Offices and Places wiiere the fanie Records or The Records ^JT; ofthem do or {hall remain, to write out or inroll the fame Records and every Part thereof, without any ftall not be car- fWnvi, to he paid therefore : (2)And that the faid Records nor any of them, for the writing out or makin? ried forth of' rhevhe Rolls thereof by the Clerks of the laid Juftices, othenvife than for the Examination thereof by the Tuf «rl e ' a .trees, mall be brought or carried forth of the faid Offices or Piaces. iso Amendment *r A. , r °. n i i i a i • r <•■ • i -t-», /-, i-w t-. c 'Fines, &c. A - A ' nrf P- lt farther enacted by the Autnonty atorefaid, 1 hat none of the f ines or Recoveries heretofore after KxemfiiS- levied, pafled or fu-frered, which iball be exemplified under the Great Seal according to the Form of this cstion. Act, {hall after fuch Exemplification had be in anv wife amended. [See 27 El. c. q. as to Fines 'bt* torjkritlrPrO. n JVideS. ^ ' ' wjiiui conceiving li,. cS> j u 3! £!, c. 2. ^.-h.n. c. z6. And fie 14GV0. 2. c. 20. fir the Amendment of 'Retsv.r'.n. CAP. IV Th e Queen fnal! and may, as Need mall require, by Commiffion under the Great Seal, give Authority to certain Comniiffioners in all and every the Counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, JVe/hnorland and the County Palatine of Durham, or in any one of them, to enquire what Tenancies and Houfes ofHabit?- tion, uthence Anno 27 H. 8. be decayed, and not occupied by Men able to ferve as Horfemen or Foot- men, according to the ancient Duty ofthofe Tenancies, and 'to examine the probable Caufes of thofe Ruins, and of all the Wants and evil Furnitures of the faid Horfemen and Footmen, and to give Order for the Reiormacioii thereof with all Speed, for the Defence of the Frontiers toward Scotland. EXP. ami Rb.P. 4 jac. 1. c. I. C A P. V. An Ad touching Iron - Mills near unto the City of London and the River of Thaines. W^d's 8 g 'rowiIg A 1/HEREAS by reafon of the late Erection of fundry Iron-Mills in divers Places of this Realm not far within a" certain V* diftant from the City of London and the Suburbs of the fame, or from the Doiuns and Sea-coafts Compafs of Lon- of Sujjex, the neceflary Provifion of Wood, as well Timber fit for Building and other Ufes, as alfo all other don or Thames, ' fellable Woods ferving for Fewel, doth daily decay and become fcant, and will in Time to come become led tefbl torr " ' mucn m ore fcarce, by reafon whereof the Prices are grown to be very great and unreafonable, and in Time verted to Coals to come will be- much more, if fome Remedy be not provided ; to the great Damage not only of the Inha- for iron-Works. ' bitants of the faid City of London and the Suburbs of the fame, but alfo to all others the Queen's Majefty's rnoft loving Subjects, having Occafion daily from all Parts of the Realm to repair unto the fame and the In what places ' P] aces abovefaid :' For Remedy whereof, Be, it therefore enacted by the Queen's moil excellent Majefry, ihzVbe ercfted. t ' le Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament here affembled, and by Iron-Mills the' the Authority of the fame, That no Perfon or Perfons from and after the Feaft-Day of the Nativity of St. great Decay of John the Bapti/i next coming, fhall convert or employ, or caufe to be converted or employed, to Coal or Wpod. other Fewel for the making of Iron, or of Iron Metal, in any Iron Mills, Furnace or Hammer, any Man- ner of Wood or Underwood now growing, or which hereafter fhall grow, within the Compafs and Precinct of two and twenty Miles from and about the City of London or the Suburbs of the fame, or within two and twenty Miles of the River of Thames, from Dorchejler in the County of Oxford downwards the laid River of Thames, nor within four Miles of the Foot of the Flills called the Downs, betwixt Arundel and Pemfeym the County of Suffix, nor within four Miles of any of the Towns of TVinchelfey and Rye, nor with- in two Miles of the Town of Pemfey, nor within three Miles of the Town of Hqfiings in the faid County ; (3) upon Pain to forfeit for every Load of Wood fo to be employed or converted into Coal or other Fewel for the making of Iron or Iron Metal, in any Iron Mill, Furnace or Hammer, as is aforefaid, forty Shil- lings of lawful Money of England; the one Half of all which Forfeitures to be to our Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majefty, and to her Heirs and SuccelTors, and the other Moiety to him or them that will fue for the fame, by Original Writ, Bill, Plaint or Information, wherein no Effoin, Protection or Injunction, or Wager of Law fhall be admitted or allowed. Woods growing H, Provided always, That this Aft fhall not extend to any Woods growing or to grow in any fuch Part in the Weilds ^ fae Weilds of Surrey, Suffix or Kent, within the faid twertty-two Miles of the faid City of London and the f'-x'and Kent! " Ri ver °f Thames, as is diftant above eighteen Miles from the City of London, and eight Miles from the faid River of Thames. New iron- III. And be it likewife further enacted, That from henceforth no new Iron Works fhall be erected Works. within twenty-two Miles of the faid City of London, nor within fourteen Miles of the River of Thames, nor within four Miles of the Downs aforefaid, or of the faid Towns of Pemfey, TVinchelfey, 'Ha/lings or Rye, upon Pain of one hundred Pounds of lawful Money of England, likewife to be recovered and employed as is aforefaid. The Woods of IV. Provided alfo, That this Act, nor any Thing therein contained, fhall extend to any Woods or Un- Chriftopher derwoods no^v {landing or growing, or which hereafter fhall ftand or grow, in or upon any Lands of Chrif- Da-neii. f 6 p] ier Danell Gentlemen, in the Parifh of Nnvdigate, within the Weild of the County of Surrey ; which Woods