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 adp r, 'by 722 C. 15. Anno xliii Reginse Elizabeths. A. D. i6or. half-round, four and forty Inches of Affize about,, and being quarter-cleft, three and forty Inches of Affize about: (7) All which to be meafured about within fix Inches of the Midft thereof, and to contain the Length limited by the faid Statute : (8) And in all other Forms and Manner of cleaving of Wood to be hereafter marked and fold for Talwood, which will not admit the former Forms or Manner of cleaving, nor anv of thefe, to obferve the Letter of the faid Statute of An. 7. Ed. 6. c. 7. V. And for the better Underftanding of the Intent of this Statute, be it enacted by the. Authority afore-' faid, That in every one of thefe Forms, the Surplufage of Compafs that mall happen between any two next Meafures, being above the one, and under the other, in every kind, fhall be deemed, allowed and taken to be for and to the Benefit of the Buyer, and not otherwife to be computable. The Compafs of VI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That every Billet named a Single, {hall contain in Compafs, being round-bodied, feven Inches arid an Half of Affize, and no Singles ro be made or marked out of cleft Wood : (2) And every Billet marked one, .commonly called aCaft, to contain in Compafs about eleven Inches of Affile, being round; and being half-round, to contain in Compafs thirteen 9 A'nni/c. 15". Inches of Affize about; and being quarter-cleft, to contrin in Compafs about, twelve Inches and an Half: 1 (3) And every Billet marked two, commonly called two Caft, to contain in Compafs about, being round, fixteen Inches of Affize ; and being hilf-round, to contain in Compafs about nineteen Inches of Affize ; and being of quarter-cleft, to contain in Compafs about, eighteen Inches and an Half of Affize : (4) And in all other Forms or Manner of cleaving of Billet to be hereafter marked and fold for Billets, which will not admit the/ormer Forms or Manner of cleaving, nor any of them, and- touching the Length of all the faid Billets, to obferve the Letter of the faid Statute of Anno 7 Ed. 6. c. 7. The Compafs of VII. And be it alfo enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all Faggots hereafter to be made and put. to Faggots. Sale, fhall contain in Compafs, befides the Knot of the Bond, four and twenty Inches of Affize; and eyery Faggot-flick or Bend within the faid Bond to contain in Length full three Foot of Affize or more, except- or" prZ'iJa ' in S on ty one Stick or Bend to be of one Foot long, to flop or harden the binding thereof. tt<u the /ifii-zt of Fucljhali mt extend to Billets wade of Beech Wood. CAP. XV. An Aft for the levying of Fines with Proclamations of Lands within the County of the City of Chefter. Fines may be ' TT7HEREASbyan Air. made in the Parliament holden at JVeJiminJier by Prorogation, in the fecond levied before the <■ yy Year of the Reign of our late Sovereign- Lord of famous Memory King Edward the Sixth, intitu- c^fvTf coffer ' ^» -^ n del for Fines with Proctaniatio?is in the County Palatine of Chefter, it was enacted, That all Fines- for 'Lands lying' ' which at any Time thereafter fhould be levied or knowledged before the High Juftice of the faid King, or there, -See. ' of his Heirs and Succeffors, of his County Palatine of Chejier, for the Time being, or before the Deputy The Effeift of ' or Lieutenant Juftice for the Time being, of any Lands, Tenements or other Hereditaments, lying and the Statute of t being within the faid County Palatine of Chefter, which fhould be openly read and proclaimed in fuch c t.%. ' ' ' Manner and Form as in and by the faid A<5t is particularly appointed, fhould be of like Force, Strength ' and Effect in the Law, to all Intents, ConUruiStions and Purpoies, as Fines duly levied with Proclamations ' before the faid King's Juftices of the Common Pleas were ; The City of ' II. And forafmuch as the faid Act doth not extend to any Lands, Tenements or other Hereditaments Chtfter made a ' lying and being within the County of the City of Cbeftsr, (the faid City, with the Suburbs and Hamlets Co "" y -? f ,' t / clf ' ' thereof, and all the Land within the Precinct and Circuit of the faid City, Suburbs and Hamlets, being the jountyo'f™ ' ^ on S before, by our late Sovereign Lord of famous Memory, King Henry the Seventh, by his .Highnefs Chefter. ' Letters Patents, bearing Date at Chejier the fixth Day of April in the one and twentieth Year of his Reign* ' divided, exempted, and in all Things feparated from the faid County of Chejier, and from thenceforth made ' and appointed to be a County by itfelf, and in it felf, diftin<Et and feparate from the faid County of Chejier;) ' i'o that the Inhabitants within the faid City, and all others being Owners of Lands within the County of ' the faid City, have no Means to levy any Fines of fuch their faid Lands in any of her Highnefs Courts of ' Record.' Fines levied of ! HI: May it therefore pleafe your moll excell nt Majefty, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Corn- j; aniswlt j?, "' tJl *monj*of this. Realm, in this prefent Parliament affembled, That it may be enaded by the Authority of the City "of Chefter ^" am . e > That from henceforth it fhall and maybe lawful to and for all and every Perfon or Perfons whatsoever,- upon any original Writ or Writs of Covenant, or any other original Writ or Writs whereupon Fines are or have been ufually levied, to be purchafed out of her Highnefs Court of Exchequer within the faid County Palatine of ChjL-r, returnable before the Mayor of the faid City for the Time being, in the Portmoot- Court to be holden within the faid City, to levy any Fine or Fines of any Lands, Tenements or Here T ditrments, lying or being within the faid County of the faid City of Chejier, before the Mayor of the fad Chy for the Time being, in the faid Pcrtmoot-Comt, in fuch Manner and Form, as Fines may be kvied by anv Laws or Statutes of this Realm before the Queen's Majefty's High Juftice of her County Palatine ot Cbejier, of Lands within the fame County Palatine: (2) And that the Mayor of the faid City for the Time being, fhall from henceforth have full Power and Authority to receive and record all and every fuch Proclamations ofFSne and l'ines : (3) And that all i.nd every fuch tine and Fines which fhall be fo levied, and which fhall be fi«es. openly read and proclaimed before the Mayor of the faid City for the Time being, in the faid Portmoot Court, once at the fame Court-Day that the faid Fine or Fines fhall be ingrafted, and once at every of the Nine next Court-days of Portmoot o be holden within the faid City, before the Mayor thereof for the Time being, next after the Levying and Ingroffing of fuch Fine orFines, fhall be of like Force, Strength and Ef- 3 fe<a