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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE CASE OF THE <HI>Gentlemen Freeholders and others, who have right of Common in the Fore&s;t or Chace of</HI> Needwood <HI>in the County of</HI> Stafford.</HEAD>
<P>THAT <HI>Thomas</HI> Earl of <HI>Stamford</HI> Chancellor of the Dutchy of <HI>Lanca&s;ter,</HI> hath in an Arbitrary way, taken upon him&s;elf to publi&s;h divers Orders in the nature of Laws, whereby the Subjects Rights and Liberties in the &s;aid Fore&s;t or Chace of <HI>Needwood</HI> are Invaded; &s;everal particu|lars whereof are hereafter mentioned.</P>
<P>That who&s;oever &s;hall mark his Cattle, put into the &s;aid Fore&s;t, with a counter|feit Burn &s;hall Forfeit 10 <HI>s.</HI> and the Cattle &s;o marked &s;hall be Seized, Appri&s;ed and Sold towards the Fine.</P>
<P>That who&s;oever &s;hall convey any Cattle out of <HI>Needwood</HI> privately, after notice given of a publick Drift, &s;hall Forfeit the Cattle and 10 <HI>l.</HI> a peice to the Informer, and them that Seize them; and if the Cattle cannot be found, &s;hall be amer&s;ed double the Cattle, and 5 <HI>s.</HI> a peice to the Informer.</P>
<P>That if any Per&s;on &s;hall convey any of his Gri&s;t to any other Mill, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">n the <HI>Wood</HI> Mill, again&s;t the ancient Cu&s;tom and Right of the Mill, he &s;hall F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 chunk"> 5 <HI>s.</HI> for every Offence; and every keeper Offending &s;hall Forfeit 6 <HI>s.</HI> 8 <HI>d.</HI> being lawfully Convicted before the <HI>Wood-mote Jury</HI> or the <HI>Dutchy</HI> Court.</P>
<P>That no Per&s;on &s;hall take or get in the &s;aid Fore&s;t, or Chace, or any the Parks thereto belonging, any Crab-Trees, Whit Thornes, Hollies or Ha&s;ils on Pain of a Months Impri&s;onment.</P>
<P>That no Commoners or other Per&s;ons &s;hall Fother any Cattle in any part of the Fore&s;t, at any time from the Fea&s;t of St. <HI>Andrews</HI> till the la&s;t day of <HI>March,</HI> upon Pain of Forfeiting their Common, and for every Bea&s;t and Hor&s;e there Fothered 6 <HI>s.</HI> 8 <HI>d.</HI> which Orders, if the Commoners in general di&s;like, then it is Ordered that 300 Acres of the Fore&s;t &s;hall be inclo&s;ed, and continually kept in &s;everally for the Succour of the Deer.</P>
<P>That no Per&s;on &s;hall keep any Swine in the Fore&s;t but in Crab time, on Forfei|ture of the Swine, and that &s;uch as continue in&s;ufficiently Rung &s;hall be Forfeited and Seized to his Maje&s;ty's u&s;e, and the Owner Forfeit for every Swine 3 <HI>s.</HI> 4 <HI>d.</HI> </P>
<P>That no Keeper or others &s;hall keep or &s;uffer any of their Sheep to Depa&s;ture in the &s;aid Fore&s;t, upon Forfeiture of the Sheep and 12 <HI>s.</HI> a Day for each Sheep.</P>
<P>The&s;e among&s;t divers others of the like nature, are put under his Maje&s;ty's Great Seal of the &s;aid <HI>Dutchy</HI> of <HI>Lanca&s;ter;</HI> and Ordered them to be Read in all Pari&s;h Churches, about the &s;aid Fore&s;t or Chace, who&s;e Pari&s;honers claim Right of Common there, which was done accordingly, to the great Di&s;turbance of the People, for that the &s;aid Orders imply.</P>
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<ITEM>I. The Impo&s;ing Exorbitant Fines.</ITEM>
<ITEM>II. Forfeiture of Goods.</ITEM>
<ITEM>III. Setting up Informers by great Rewards.</ITEM>
<ITEM>IV. Impri&s;onment of their Per&s;ons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>V. The Forfeiture of their Free-holds.</ITEM>
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<P>Which Penalties 'tis Humbly pre&s;um'd, cannot be Impo&s;ed on any of his Ma|je&s;ty's Subjects but by Act of Parliament.</P>
<P><HI>Wherefore 'tis Humbly hoped, that the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons will take the Premi&s;&s;es into their &s;erious Con&s;ideration, and give &s;uch Re|leif therein, as to their Great Wi&s;dom &s;hall be thought fit.</HI></P>
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