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 650 C. 19. Anno xxvii Reginae Elizabeths. A. D. 1585. made in Sufiex, » ^e utterly confumed and wafted, if fome convenient Remedy therein be not timely provided :' (i) Be it Sa "<h u rKe j t ' tnere f° re enacted by our Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majefty, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Timber bfcon- Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That no PeJfon or fumed by the Perfons, from and after the Feaft of Eajhr next after the End of this prefent Seffion of Parliament, fhall making of Iron, make, erect, build or new fet up, at or in any Place within the Counties of Suffix, Surrey or Kent or any and the High- Q c tnenl} a ny Marnier of Iron-Mills, Furnace, Finary or Blomary, for the Making and Working of any itfrepaired and Manner of Iron or Iron Metal, other than either upon fuch old and former Bays or Pens, wherejpon hath amended. lately been, or at the Time of the new Erection fhall be then ftanding fome Iron-Mills, Furnace or liaro- t Eliz. c 15. mer, or elfe in and upon fuch Lands as the Party or Parties fo erecting any fuch intended new Work, fhall S3 Eliz. c 5. continually furnifh the fame with fufficient Supply of his or their own proper Woods ftanding or growing in and upon his or their own proper Soil or Land, being to him or them in Fee-fimple, Fee-tail, or for be'Tm^edt'cr Term of Life or Lives without Impeachment of Wafte at the leaft and not otherwife; (3) nor fhall convert the'makmg of or employ, or caufe to be converted or employed, to Coals or other Fuel, for the Making or Working of Iron. Iron or Iron Metal, in or about any manner of Iron-Mills, Furnace, Hammer, Finary, Forge or Blo- mary, the Body or Bodies of any found Timber Tree or Trees, apt for the Making of good and fufficient Cleft Wares, or Sawing Timber of Oak, Afh or Elm, growing of the Breadth or Bignefs of one Foot fquare at the Stub, or any Part of the fame Body or Bodies of any fuch Tree or Trees; (4J upon Pain of Forfeiture for every iron-Mill, Furnace, Forge, Finary or Blomary, made, erected, builded or fet up, contrary to the Tenor and true Meaning of this Act, the Sum of three hundred Pounds; (5) and for every Body of every fuch Timber Tree fo employed or converted to Coal or other Fuel, for the Making or f The h° off™" Wor ' cm g of Iron, as is aforefaid, the Sum of forty Shillings of lawful Money of England; (6) the one aforeiiid CnceS Half of which Forfeitures to be to our Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majefty, her Heirs and Succeftbrs, and the other Half to him or them that will fue for the fame by original Writ, Bill, Plaint or Informa- tion, wherein no Efloin, Protection or Wager of Law fhall be admitted or allowed. What Tops or II. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That it fhall and may be oirais of Timber j aw r u ] t0 an( j f or the Owners of fuch Trees (the Bodies whereof have been or fhall be from Time to Time toYron-Works 6. converted and employed to or for any manner of Timber or Cleft Ware within the Weilds of Suffix, Surrey or Kent, or any of them, the fame not being within eighteen Miles of the City of London, or eight Miles of the River of Thames, or four Miles of the Towns of Rye and TVinchclfey, or within three Miles of Hqftings, or within four Miles of the Foot of the Hills called the Downs between Arundel and Pemfey in the County of Suffix aforefaid, or any of them) to employ the Tops and Offals of all fuch 1 rees to or for Coals or other Fuel ferving to or for Iron-Works, at their own Will and Pleafures; this Statute or any other to the contrary hereof in any wife notwithftanding. (2) And forafmuch as the Highways in the faid Counties of Suffex, Surrey and Kent, are in many Places greatly impaired and fpoiled by means of Carriages of Coals > Mines and Iron, to and from the Iron- Works in the faid Counties, to the great Hindrance of the com- A Remedy for mon Paffages of the Queen's Majefly's Subjects travelling through the fame: (3) For Remedy whereof, the Repair of De; t f ur ther enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the Occupiers of all manner of Iron-Works what- BnHfeT" Surrey f° ever > as Owners or Farmers of the fame, by or for any Eftate or Eftates of Inheritance, for Life, Lives, and Kent. or for Term of Year or Years, which fhall at any Time hereafter carry or caufe to be carried any Coals, Repealed by Mine or Iron, to or for any their Iron-Works, between the twelfth Day of Oftober and the firft Day of 39 EJiz. c. 19. May yearly, fhall likewife yearly carry and lay, or caufe to be carried and laid, for every fix Loads of u Sam^and** Coals or Mine, as well as alfo for every Tun of Iron, which fhall be carried by any manner of Wain or Kent. ney a " Cart, between the faid twelfth Day of UcJober and the firft Day of May yearly, by the Space of one Mile thorow any Highways, being under any the Hills commonly called the North-Downs of Surrey and Kent, to or from any manner of Iron- Work, one ufual Cart-Load of Cinder, Gravel, Stone, Sand or Chalk, meet for the Repairing and Amending of the faid Highways, to be laid and employed in fuch Place and Places of the faid Highways, as by any Juftice of Peace of any of the Counties aforefaid, dwelling near unte> the Places where the Highways within the Limits aforefaid fhall be moft -annoyed by any the Means afore-. Two Shillings faid, according to the greater and more prefent Neceffity, fhall be appointed or affigned; (4) or elfe pay- AainT ^Lieu or cau k t0 k e paid, for and in Allowance of every Cart-Load, in Manner and Form aforefaid to have been • o/every Ca-t" *° carr i e d and laid, two Shillings and Six-pence within eight Days after the Demand thereof, to the Hands load of Gravel, of the faid Juftice of Peace or his Affignee, the fame to be levied after Default of Payment upon the De- Ac uncarried. j mand thereof, from Time to Time, upon fuch Iron as fhall be by and thorow the fame Highways fo carried, by way of Diftrefs. (5) And if fuch Juftice of Peace, by reafon of Abfence or other Occafion, do not or i" * hat Care fhall not within forty Days next after the faid firft Day of May yearly, affign or appoint where and in ihairappomt S wnat Place of the Highways the faid Cinder, Gravel, Stone, Sand or Chalk, to be carried as aforefaid, where the Gravel fhall be laid, or where and how the Money thereof due or fo paid, fhall be employed and beftowed; that fi»U be la*d. then the fame Cinder, Gravel, Stone, Sand or Chalk, fhall be laid and employed by fuch Perfon and Per- fons as by this Act are to carry and lay the fame, or to caufe the fame to be carried and laid, in fuch Place and Places of the Highways, as the Surveyors of the Highways within the Parifh for the Time being, where the Highways fhall be moft annoyed, as is aforefaid, fhall affign or appoint; (6) or in Default there- of pay to the faid Surveyors for every fuch Load du: and uncarried, two Shillings Six-pence, in Manner and Form aforefaid; (7) upon Pain of Forfeiture of ten Shillings for every Load of Cinder, Gravel, Stone, Sand or Chalk not carried, laid and employed in the Highways, or two Shillings and Six-pence unpaid, as is aforefaid, to be forfeited and paid by the Perfon and Perfons which by this Act ought to carry and lay, or caufe to be carried and laid, the Cinder, Gravel, Stone, Sand or Chalk, or therefore to have paid, as is aforefaid, after due Prefentment and Conviction thereof had before the Jufuces of Oyer and Ter- miner, 3