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<DIV1 TYPE="petition">
<PB N="1" REF="1" MS="y">
<HEAD>To the Right Honourable, the Knights, Citi|zens, and Burge&s;&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> a&s;&s;embled in the Hou&s;e of <HI>COMMONS</HI> at <HI>WESTMINSTER.</HI></HEAD>
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<HEAD>The humble Petition of the Tenants and Freeholders of the Mannor of <HI>Gillingham</HI> in the County of <HI>Dor&s;et.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>HVMBLY SHEWETH;</OPENER>
<P>THat at a Parliament held in <HI>February</HI> in the fourth year of his now Maje&s;ties Raigne, a Petition was then exhibited to the Grand Committee for Grievances, by the then Tenants of the &s;aid Mannor of <HI>Gillingham</HI> afore&s;aid, &s;ub&s;cribing their names to the particular Grievances then thereby complained of, ari&s;ing upon the di&s;affore&s;tation of the late Forre&s;t of <HI>Gillingham</HI> on the behalf of them&s;elves, and of 400. others, which never compounded or were que&s;tioned, who had right of Common within the &s;ame late Forre&s;t, containing a complaint again&s;t a commi&s;&s;ion then lately awarded out of his M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">je&s;ties Court of Exchequer, to Sir <HI>Iames Fullerton,</HI> and others, for the enclo&s;ing of the &s;aid late Forre&s;t, and a place there called the Bayliff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">s walk, &amp; again&s;t the proceedings of the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners, in executing of the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion; and likewi&s;e again&s;t a Decree made again&s;t the &s;aid Peti|tioners in the &s;aid Court of Exchequer, concerning the &s;aid Forre&s;t and Bayliff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">s walk. By which Commi&s;&s;ion and proceedings thereupo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">, the &s;aid Petitioners, and many hundreds more of the Tenants and Inhabitants, and Commoners there, were much damp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ifi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">d and oppre&s;|&s;ed, as was alleadged by the &s;aid Petition; And therefore the &s;aid Petitioners humbly prayed, that the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion and ptocee|dings might be examined; which &s;aid Petition was read, and ordered to be retayned, and a day appointed for hearing the &s;aid Cau&s;e. As by the &s;aid Petition remaining in this Honourable Hou&s;e, and by the &s;ub&s;criptions, and Copy of the Order of this Honourable Hou&s;e thereup|on made ready to be produced, may more fully appear; but by rea&s;on of the &s;udden di&s;&s;olution of the &s;ame Parliament, the cau&s;e was not heard; &s;ince which time, divers other wrongs and oppre&s;&s;ions have beene again&s;t the &s;aid Tenants by the Agents and In&s;truments of the R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ght Honourable the Earl of <HI>Elgin,</HI> the pre&s;ent Fee-Farmer of the &s;aid Mannor and Forre&s;t; all which are comprehended in the Articles annexed.</P>
<P>Humbly therefore pray, that you will be plea&s;ed to revive the Cau&s;e upon the fir&s;t Petition, and to hear and relieve your Petitioners com|plaint, as well in tho&s;e as in the&s;e other Grievances &s;ince happening, as the ju&s;tice of the Cau&s;e &s;hall require.</P>
<CLOSER>And your Petitioners &s;aall ever pray, &amp;c.</CLOSER>
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<HEAD>THE CASE.</HEAD>
<P>THE Mannor of <HI>Gillingham</HI> is ancient D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">mea&s;me, and belongeth to the Crown of <HI>England,</HI> and hath alwayes heretofore u&s;ed to be parcell of the Queenes Jointure, and never out of the hands of the King, Queen, of Prince for the time being, untill the &s;ame was lately granted in Fee-Farme to the Right Honourable the Earl of <HI>Elgin</HI> parcell, of which Mannor is a great Wa&s;t or Common, cal|led the Bayliffes Walk.</P>
<P>That within the &s;aid Mannor and Bayliff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">s Walk, lyeth the late Forre&s;t of <HI>Gillingham,</HI> compa&s;&s;ed almo&s;t round by the &s;aid Man|nor and Bayliff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">s Walk, within which Mannor are many Freeholds, and above 200. Copies of Inheritance at Fine, and heriot certaine, the which Fines and heriots, Rents and Profet, of Courts, have been paid to the Queenes u&s;e, and ordered by the Court of the Mannor.</P>
<P>That there is likewi&s;e another Mannor con&s;i&s;ting of &s;everal Copy holders of Inheritance, called the Forre&s;t Mannor, at fine, and heriots cer|taine; the which Fines, Herots, Rents, and Profits of Courts, have been paid to the Wardens of the Forre&s;t his u&s;e, and ordered by the Forre&s;t Court of that Mannor.</P>
<P>That all the &s;aid Tenants of both the &s;aid Mannors, and other Inhabitants, have time out of mind had and u&s;ed to have Common of Pa|&s;ture within the &s;aid Forre&s;t, for their Hor&s;e Bea&s;ts, and other Bea&s;ts, levant and couchant upon their re&s;pective tenements all the year, at all times of the yeare, as to their re&s;pective tenements belonging, and Common of Pa&s;ture within the &s;aid Bayliffes Walke, for their Hor&s;e Bea&s;ts, or other Bea&s;t and &s;heepe levant and couchant upon their re&s;pective tenements, all the yeare, at all times of the yeare, as to their re|&s;pective tenements likewi&s;e pertaining.</P>
<P>That the &s;aid Fine, certain, and cu&s;tomes, haue been by &s;everall Decrees, the one in the Ezchequer, the other in Queen Annes Court, and by an Act of Parliament <HI>7. Iacob. Reg.</HI> confirmed, and the Charter exemplified, which co&s;t the tenants above 800. pounds.</P>
<P>That in <HI>Aug. 1. Car. Reg.</HI> a Commi&s;&s;ion i&s;&s;ued forth of the Exchequer to Sir <HI>Iames Fullerton</HI> Knight (being Commi&s;&s;ioner and Patentee, for about 40. yeares of the &s;aid Forre&s;t, at a &s;mall Rent) and to others, whereof the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Fullerton</HI> was of the <HI>Quorum,</HI> to di&s;affor|re&s;t and improve the &s;aid <HI>Forre&s;t,</HI> for the advancement of his Maje&s;ties Revenues, with Articles of In&s;truction annexed, for compounding with the Commoners and Officers by allotments out of the &s;aid <HI>Forre&s;t,</HI> in &s;atisfaction of their Common and Offices there; and for reliefe of the poore, and for &s;etting out convenient high-wayes through the &s;aid <HI>Forre&s;t,</HI> as by the Records thereof in his Maje&s;ties Court of Exche|quer; among&s;t other things may at large appeare.</P>
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<HEAD>1. <HI>GRIEVANCE.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THat 22. <HI>Jacob.Reg.</HI> a Map of the &s;aid Forre&s;t was taken by one Mr. <HI>Ienkins</HI> and his men, who brought with him a perambulation there|of, as he pretended, wherein was included all the Bayliffes Walk, and the Hou&s;es, Gardens, and Inclo&s;ures of about two hundred Tenants and Cottage.</P>
<P N="2">2. That for doing that &s;ervice, the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Jenkins</HI> required the then Bayliffe and Hayward of the &s;aid Mannor to attend his men, and to informe them of all the places named in the &s;aid <HI>Perambulation,</HI> and the hou&s;es and grounds of the Tenants: All which was pretended to be within the &s;aid <HI>Forre&s;t;</HI> And the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Jenkins</HI> after the taking thereof, alleadged upon his oath, that he was a&s;&s;i&s;ted therein with di|vers ancient witne&s;&s;es, albeit the &s;aid Map was taken by his men only, and him&s;elf very &s;eldome with them.</P>
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<P N="3">3. That 23. <HI>Aug.</HI> 22. <HI>Iacob.</HI> a Court of Survey was holden at <HI>Gillingham,</HI> at which Court a Jury was &s;worne to pre&s;ent, according to Ar|ticles then delivered them, whereof one of them was for the bounds of the Forre&s;t (none of the Jury then perfectly knowing the bounds between the &s;aid Forre&s;t and the &s;aid <HI>Bailiffs</HI> walke, which had been u&s;ed time out of mind, And having no evidence produced therefore, they did not di&s;tingui&s;h the &s;aid bounds in their pre&s;entment, but did pre&s;ent only the afore&s;aid mapp, which the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Ienkins</HI> produced unto them upon his Oath according to the perambulation he brought with him; by which meanes the <HI>Bailiffes</HI> walke was taken to be Forre&s;t.</P>
<P N="4">4 That the Commi&s;&s;ioners cau&s;ed the Tenants one by one to be drawn into a little clo&s;e private Chamber in an Inne in <HI>Gillingham,</HI> where the then <HI>Bailiffe</HI> kept the doore, and there compounded with &s;ome of them for their Commons in the &s;aid Forre&s;t, promi&s;ing, to allot to e|very of them ratably after the rate of ten Acres of Forre&s;t-ground for every 100. Acres of their &s;everal, and &s;o after that proportion, and to every ancient Cottage and Acre, and in that manner got the &s;ub&s;criptions of 73. &s;everall mens names, of which nineteene did &s;ub&s;cribe for &s;uch as were not pre&s;ent, and &s;ome of them knew not of the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion, and &s;ome of them after di&s;a&s;tented to the &s;aid &s;ub&s;cription, &amp; &s;ome of them &s;o &s;ub&s;cribing were the Commi&s;&s;ioners them&s;elves.</P>
<P N="5">5. That the <HI>King</HI> by the Agreement was to inclo&s;e the out-bounds of his part round, which is not performed.</P>
<P N="6">6. That the alotments hereupon made, were layd forth defective, and not pur&s;uant, the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion and agreement and his <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> directions, and layd inconveniently in re&s;pect of wayes to the prejudice of five Market Townes within 6. miles of the &s;aid Forre&s;t. And that by His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> directions and the Comm&s;&s;ioners appointment, the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Ienkins</HI> was to lay out the alotments and wayes by the appro|bation of 12. of the Tenants and Commoners; but he cau&s;ed his men to lay them out as he plea&s;ed, and being que&s;tioned for it by one of the Comm&s;&s;ioners, and &s;ome of the 12. he an&s;wered, it is &s;o and it mu&s;t be, and it &s;hall be &s;o; for I will have it &s;o.</P>
<P N="7">7. That all the alotments for all the &s;aid Tenants and poore being about 800. Families amount not unto above 600. Acres or therea|bouts, which are all taken out of the Bailiffes walkes, (except about 50. Acres) the remainder being about 2600. Acres, worth 1300 <ABBR>l.</ABBR> <HI>per Annum,</HI> (whereof about 200. Acres or more is taken out of the &s;aid <HI>Bailiffes</HI> walke) is now enjoyed by the <HI>E.</HI> of <HI>Elgin,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Kirke.</HI></P>
<P N="8">8. That thereupon at the in&s;tance of Sir <HI>James Fullerton</HI> (who was the <HI>Kings</HI> Commi&s;&s;ioner in his own cau&s;e) the intended improve|ment being for him&s;elfe, an information was exhibited in the Exchequer Chamber (in the name of the <HI>Kings Maje&s;ty</HI>) by the then Atturney Gen. again&s;t &s;ome of the Tenants which had &s;ub&s;cribed as afore&s;aid, and again&s;t &s;ome others that had refu&s;ed, and upon pretence that t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;aid Compo&s;ition was made with the Major part of the Commoners, and that the <HI>Bailiffes</HI> walk was within, &amp; parcell of the &s;aid F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">rre&s;t &amp; an&s;wers made by &s;uch as were then que&s;tioned, divers orders were obtained there for the &s;trengthning of the &s;aid Alotments, and a decree was had again&s;t them, and all other the Commoners though no parties; whereupon the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Fullerton</HI> and Mr. <HI>Kirke</HI> inclo&s;ed the re&s;idue for His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> as was pretended, but kept it for their own u&s;es.</P>
<P N="9">9. That the high-wayes by tho&s;e inclo&s;ures are become impa&s;&s;able, and laid upon the generall Charge of the Pari&s;hioners for repara|tions; whereas by Agreement the &s;ame were to be repaired by the <HI>Kings</HI> Farmer, and the Countrey to be di&s;charged, and the way<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">s to go through the inclo&s;ed grounds of His <HI>Maje&s;ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> part without re&s;traint or limitation.</P>
<P N="10">10. That divers high-wayes within the &s;aid late Forre&s;t, by the &s;aid inclo&s;ures are diverted above halfe a mile about, and &s;ome wholly &s;topped up to the great annoyance of the Countrey, for that they have &s;poiled their hor&s;es and wares, and have been inforced to give their money to go through the inclo&s;ed grounds.</P>
<P N="11">11. That the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Fullerton</HI> did a&s;&s;igne, devi&s;e, or leave the remainder of his Tearme in the &s;aid Forre&s;t, to the &s;aid Earle as his Excecuter in tru&s;t for the Lady <HI>Bruce</HI> his relict, and for the &s;aid Earle, or one of them, and the &s;aid Earle hath &s;ince procured to him and his heyres, both the &s;aid Mannors, and Forre&s;t, and Pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ke likewi&s;e from His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> in fee farme for a &s;mall fine a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">d rent, <HI>per annum;</HI> for the premi&s;es being about 140.<ABBR>l.</ABBR> 16.<ABBR>s.</ABBR> 8.<ABBR>d.</ABBR> whereof about 48 <ABBR>l.</ABBR> is the ancient rent of both manners, in re&s;pect of the true valew thereof be|ing worth neere 2000.<ABBR>l.</ABBR> <HI>per annum</HI> in good times: And albeit the wood and Timber in the &s;aid late Forre&s;t at the time of the di&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ffore&s;ta|tion were worth 8000.<ABBR>l.</ABBR> at the lea&s;t, which was to be &s;old for His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> be&s;t profit re&s;erving a great part of it for mainta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ning hou&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">s, bridges, Fences, and high-wayes in the Forre&s;t, Parke, and mannour, yet it being for the mo&s;t part cut down and &s;old, and almo&s;t all the po&s;ts, pales, and railes of the Parke, Fences, being part of that Timber, are taken up and &s;old by Mr. <HI>Bronker;</HI> for which many hundreds of the be&s;t timber Trees in the Forre&s;t and Parke were &s;elled, out of which His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> hath had very little profit but great lo&s;&s;e.</P>
<P N="12">12. That the &s;aid Earle hath by <HI>Tko. Bronker</HI> Gentleman, and others his Agents and In&s;truments er deavoured of late to advance his purcha&s;e of the premi&s;es by requiring and taking more beryets of the Tenants there then by the Cu&s;tome are due, to the great oppre&s;&s;ion, of the &s;aid Tenants your Petitioners, and hath preferred a Bill in the Exchequ<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">r, endeavouring to make good &s;uch unju&s;t and uncon&s;ciona|ble demands concerning them and other things, and hath likewi&s;e taken away the yearely fees belonging to the Reeue of the &s;aid Forre&s;t and Forre&s;t mannour, being yearely by Cu&s;tome, to be one of the &s;aid Tenants of the &s;aid Forre&s;t-mannour, amounting in valew to 3.<ABBR>l.</ABBR> <HI>per annum</HI> and upwards, and given no allowance for the &s;ame, His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> directions therein not being performed.</P>
<P N="13">13. That the Court Rolls may be put from time to time into the common Che&s;t, appointed for that purpo&s;e, where all the antient Court Rolls of the &s;aid mannour are, and have been ever by cu&s;tome u&s;ed to be put for neere 500. yeares pa&s;t, as in an ind<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">fferent and &s;afe hand be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ween the Lord and Tenants; but that there are the rolls of 13. yeares la&s;t pa&s;t kept in Mr. <HI>Bronker,</HI> or the Deputy Stewards ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ds, and not put into that Che&s;t to the hazard of the Tenan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">s E&s;tates, and palpable breach of their Cu&s;tomes.</P>
<P N="14">14. That of late a new con&s;tat of Alotments, upon the &s;aid di&s;affore&s;tation hath been made by the private direction of the &s;aid <HI>Thomas Bronker,</HI> and one <HI>Edward Coward</HI> Agents under the &s;aid Earle, with great alterations from the former, without the con&s;ent of the &s;aid Te|nants or other legall authority to warrant the &s;ame; whereby the Tenants and poore are much wronged.</P>
<P N="15">15. That <HI>Charles Wills, Morgan Cave,</HI> and <HI>Edm. Coward,</HI> did &s;ub&s;cribe and accept of 110. Acres of the Forre&s;t for 110 poore men, named in 2. &s;everall notes delivered to the Commi&s;&s;ioners, and to be a&s;&s;ured to them and others, as feoffees in tru&s;t, to remaine to the u&s;e of the poore for ever, a great part whereof is altered and taken away.</P>
<P N="16">16. That the &s;aid <HI>Charles Wills, Morgan Cave,</HI> and <HI>Edm. Coward,</HI> did &s;ub&s;cribe and accept of 50. Acres of ground of the Forre&s;t for 48. of the poorer &s;ort of Tenants named in a note pre&s;ented to the Commi&s;&s;ioners, the which note was left in the hand of <HI>Edm. Coward,</HI> that he &s;hould take the hands of &s;uch as were named in the &s;aid note, and to returne the note to <HI>London</HI> to the Commi&s;&s;ioners with &s;peed, which was not performed; but many yeares after <HI>Coward</HI> of him&s;elfe, without the con&s;ent of the others, put out about 20. of &s;uch as were named in the &s;aid note, and put in others in their places; but they were &s;uch as mu&s;t &s;ell, whereby he was rewarded of the buyer and &s;eller, and the mo&s;t of them do not know where their Acres do lye; for that it was inclo&s;ed in the poores and other Tenants grounds long before.</P>
<P N="17">17. That after the ground was layd out for the poore and other Tenants Mr. <HI>Thomas Branker, Richard Perue, William Sheapheard, Peter Greene, Ben. Sanger, Io. Wilkins,</HI> and <HI>Mary Greene,</HI> did inclo&s;e about 40. Acres of the be&s;t of the ground of the poores, and poorer &s;ort of Tenants to their own u&s;e: By meanes whereof the ground which is left for the poore, is halfe a mile in length, in nature of a Lane, and 30. wayes over it, and no allowance of ground for wayes, and is now by the &s;aid new con&s;tat &s;et out in 9. &s;everall places, by which meanes neere 200. tenants and poore receive much wrong.</P>
<P N="18">18&punc; That the &s;aid Earl hath now lately cau&s;ed to be taken out an Inqui&s;ition and attachment again&s;t the Inhabitants of five townes, and Pari&s;hes neer the &s;aid Forre&s;t, to &s;atisfie him above 1000.<ABBR>l.</ABBR> for his pretended dammages, to the great di&s;turbance and oppre&s;&s;ion of the Inhabitants neer the &s;aid Forre&s;t.</P>
<PB N="3" REF="3">
<P N="19">19&punc; That the &s;aid Earl doth of late take upon him to di&s;po&s;e in Court of the Copyhold Lands of Inheritance of the heires of &s;uch te|nants as dye, their heires being underage, and let out the &s;ame at under values by way of Lea&s;e for many yeares together, with unrea&s;onable and unju&s;t allowances, to the manife&s;t wrong and oppre&s;&s;ion of &s;uch Infants, which is a great incroachment on the liberty and property of the &s;aid tenants, and an attempt to draw the tenants heires, being <HI>minors,</HI> into a greater &s;lavery and &s;ervitude, then a tenure in <HI>Capite,</HI> where|as the Ordinance concerning the <HI>Court of Wards</HI> aymts (as the Petitioners humbly conceive) at the Liberty of the Subject, even in ca&s;es of <HI>Capite,</HI> or Knights &s;ervice tenure.</P>
<P N="20">20. That one <HI>Woolridg</HI> being Bayliffe of the Mannor of <HI>Gillingham,</HI> and employed in all the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e concerning the di&s;affore&s;tation of the &s;aid Forre&s;t, was upon a Ryot of a breach of the Inclo&s;ures of the &s;aid Forre&s;t, accu&s;ed in Star-chamber for an Abettor by &s;ome who were great enemies to him for his &s;ervice done about the di&s;affore&s;tation, and was fined 200. <ABBR>l.</ABBR> which fine, with others the &s;aid Sir <HI>James Fullerton</HI> had granted to him from his Maje&s;ty, with power to di&s;charge any that were fined, as he plea&s;ed; And being truly informed, he did freely forgive the &s;aid fine to the &s;aid <HI>Woolridg.</HI> But after his death, the &s;aid Earl cau&s;ed the &s;aid <HI>Woolridg</HI> to be impri&s;oned for the &s;ame Fine, and the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Bronker</HI> hath unju&s;tly levyed of the goods and e&s;tate of the &s;aid <HI>Woolridg,</HI> for the &s;aid Fine, above 260.<ABBR>l.</ABBR> be&s;ides it co&s;t (the &s;aid) <HI>Wolridg</HI> 40.<ABBR>l.</ABBR> to bring it to a hearing.</P>
<P N="21">21. That <HI>Wolridg</HI> brought a &s;uit again&s;t the &s;aid Earle, and <HI>Bronker,</HI> and others in the Exchequer chamber, hoping to have beene relie|ved, and have had re&s;titution of his goods being &s;o unju&s;tly taken; but when it was heard, and the depo&s;itions of witne&s;&s;es read, the Earle &s;it|ting in Court, a Letter was delivered, and two or three lines read of it; whereupon Baron <HI>Trevor</HI> &s;tood up; and did take the letter, and did look in it, and &s;aid, <HI>I will believe this Letter, before any of their Oathes</HI> (meaning the witne&s;&s;es &s;worn in that Cau&s;e) and that he did &s;ee no cau&s;e in Equity, why any re&s;titution &s;hould be made of the &s;aid Goods to the &s;aid <HI>Wolridg,</HI> and thereupon di&s;mi&s;&s;ed the Cau&s;e out of the &s;aid Court.</P>
<P N="22">22 That it was agreed between the Commi&s;&s;ioners and Tenants that &s;ub&s;cribed, that the alotments of the Tenants &s;hould bee a&s;&s;u|red unto them in the name of <HI>Cu&s;tomary Lands</HI> without Rent or Fine, which is not performed.</P>
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