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<HEAD>By the Kings Maie&s;ties Commi&s;ioners, for granting free VVarrens, and other things of that nature.</HEAD>
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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<P><HI>_THE KINGS mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;ties, tendering the quiet, ea&s;e, and contentment</HI> of his louing Subiects: AND for the better pre&s;eruation of each mans Game of all &s;orts in their owne lands and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, from common hunters, Potchers and the like: which his Maie&s;tie vnder&s;tanding diuers of his Subiects are de&s;irous of, hath been gratiou&s;ly plea&s;ed to graunt his Commi&s;&s;ion vnder his great Seale of Eng|land, directed to &s;ome of his learned Coun&s;el and others, who&s;e names are &s;ub&s;cribed, or compounding and agree|ing with all &s;uch as will compound for free and Charter Warren, to be granted to them and their Heires vnder the great Seale of England: AND for erecting Parkes and Warrens, in each mans &s;euerall po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions: AND for renewing Charters and Grants of that nature, with diuers other benefits, &amp; more ample priuiledges, and &s;peedy remedies by his Maie&s;ties &s;aid Grant, &s;o to be obtained, again&s;t &s;uch inconueniences of Hunters and Potchers, more then the common or Statute Lawes, without the helpe of his Maie&s;ties grant, can yeeld and afford: for Warrens or Parkes are not to be holden or erected but by <HI>Charter</HI> or <HI>Pre&s;cription,</HI> as by the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion may appeare.</P>
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<HEAD>The Command and commoditie of the priuiledge of Chartr'd grounds, and Warrens, <HI>grounded vpon lawe and experience.</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM>1 IT doth enfranchi&s;e the land, by giuing an intere&s;t in the game to the owner of the ground, excludeth all &s;trangers, who other|wi&s;e without the kings grant haue as much intere&s;t therein as the owner: neither will any action lye again&s;t aman for taking of killing his game, or recouery be had without the kings grant.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 It hath great immunities and freedomes, whereof other grounds are de&s;titute. <HI>5. Eliza. Ra&s;t 43.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3 The tre&s;pa&s;&s;er &s;hall incurre the paiment mentioned in the kings grant, which other Warrens want.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 Warren ground is not &s;ubiect to the &s;tatute made again&s;t the conuer&s;ion of tillage, into pa&s;ture: whereby an arable ground out|worne and barrened by corne, may &s;o be imploied to greater benefit, till it be fruitefull for corne againe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5 Tre&s;pa&s;&s;ers &s;hall incurre impri&s;onement for three yeeres, and make fine and ran&s;ome, and put in &s;ureties not to offend againe, and the finall puni&s;hment is abiuration.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6 The garden of wards that de&s;troyes or annoies &s;uch groundes, &s;hall be puni&s;hed in wa&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7 The delinquent incurreth the danger of the &s;tatute lawes, and the penalty of the kings Charter and common lawes.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>The Commoditie.</HEAD>
<ITEM>1 IT is good to all per&s;ons and grieuance to none.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 They be &s;ubiect to a &s;ute by <HI>Quo Warranto,</HI> that keepe and maintaine Warrens without the kings graunt.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 The new Patentie hath full power to puni&s;h Potchers and petty hunters.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 The barren and wa&s;t grounds may be won to be fertill, and gained to be &s;euerall and good.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5 This kinde of grownd will be made fit for Tillage, and fruitfull for corne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6 The Marchant &s;hall be furni&s;hed with Furres for cold Countries, to the maintenance of Marriners and &s;hipping.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7 The increa&s;e of Conies, in many barren wa&s;t grounds will be &s;o great, that it will in tho&s;e places keepe down the price of victuals.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8 The feare of the&s;e puni&s;hments, hereby to be inflicted, will beate downe Idlene&s;&s;e the roote and cau&s;e of mi&s;chiefes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>9 It will be an occa&s;ion to pre&s;erue mens hedges, corne, and &s;heepe, more free from petty hunters, Potchers, &amp;c. The charge of pa&s;&s;ing this graunt vnder the Seale, &s;hall not be great, as in other Ca&s;es.</ITEM>
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<P>The Office hereof is kept at Sir <HI>Henry Bretons</HI> hou&s;e in Drury-Lane aboue Drury hou&s;e, next to the &s;igne of the Griffin, where you &s;hall haue further &s;ati&s;faction and direction herein.</P>
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<HEAD>The Commi&s;sioners for this Grant.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Henry Yeluerton,</HI> Knight, <HI>Atterney generall.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Thomas Couentry,</HI> Knight, <HI>Solicitor.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Iohn Town&s;end,</HI> Knight.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Henry Breton,</HI> Knight,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>George peckham,</HI> Knight,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Henry Gibbe,</HI> E&s;quire.</ITEM>
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