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A92999 Severall proposals for the generall good of the Common-wealth. With the grounds and reasons thereof. Seriously propounded out of a reall desire of a firm establishment of the peace and liberties of the Common-wealth. 1651 (1651) Wing S2800; Thomason E624_7; ESTC R206442 11,476 16

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of renewing their estates and so have been compelled to leave those Lands which they and their predecessors have enjoyed for many yeares to be possest by some of the alliance or dependants of their Landlords without any satisfaction had for their disbursements and improvements the Fines so taken seldome being imployed to any other use but the feasting of themselves and others the yearly rents and profits of those Lands being sufficient to discharge the severall uses those Lands were first apointed for without the taking such excessive Fines And further that such a course may be taken that all other Tenants also who by their own particular charge and industry shall much improve the Lands they hold may have reasonable satisfaction made them by their Landlords in case they shall not reap the benefit of their improvement before the expiration of their Leases that so they may the better be encouraged to improve the Lands they hold to the best advantage of the Common-wealth without receiving any prejudice by such improvements 11. That consideration may be taken of the large and vast circuits of ground lying waste and in great measure unprofitable and some course taken for the improvement thereof for the benefit of those that are interested therein according to their severall interests and proportions And that where the commoners or owners of such grounds refuse to make an improvement thereof themselves liberty may be given to any others to improve those wasts allowing such reasonable satisfaction to the proprietors as shall be thought fit by such Commissioners as shall be appointed for that purpose and for the deciding of all other differences that shall arise amongst the improvers and that liberty may be given to the owners of all other Lands to improve the same where the advantage to the Common-wealth by such improvement may out ballance particular interests and advantages and no depopulation thereupon ensue and to the end the poorer sort of people may enjoy the benefit of such commons as shall be thought fit to be continued aswell as others who have greater stocks all right of commoning without number may be taken away and every commoner allowed his due proportion according to the proportion of his Lands And that for the avoiding many suits in Law each Parish may enjoy the commons therein unto themselves and no others not having any Lands therein to be entercommoners with them either by prescription or by any other title And that encouragement may be given for the more diligent searching after mines of all sorts by permitting the owners of the ground where any mine of any metal shall be found to reap the sole benefit thereof without any seisure by the State as heretofore 12. That a strict inquiry may be made by Commissioners in every County of all generall nusances erecting of Mills planting of Warrens turning of water courses or Highwaies or the like or of any thing els that may be more prejudiciall to the borderers then either advantageous to the party or the Common-wealth and such of them rectified or taken away that shall be so found And to the end all Highwaies leading to Market Towns may be made more passable all persons may be compellable under a certain penalty to repaire those wayes as far as his own Land lieth with the like liberty for the gathering of stones or digging stones or gravell in any mans Land within the same Parish as formerly was given to the Parish by the statute and where the highway lies between two persons ground both of them to joine in the charge of the repairing of it as far as their Land lieth in that manner for commonly such waies are made defective by the meanes of those that border thereupon and therefore the more fit to be repaired by them rather then by such poor people who are not able to support themselves and Families during the time required by the statutes now in force for their assistance and that those Highwaies as lie through wasts and commons may be repaired by the Commoners and Lord of the Soil where his profit out of the said wasts and Commons is considerable by such proportions as shall be reasonable and where the owner of Land adjoyning to the way is not able through povertie to repaire his part that defect either so be supplied by the Parish or by such therein as have no Land adjoining to those Highwaies that so the burthen may be born with most equality 13. That all Faires may be kept upon certain daies of the month and not according to the former moveable Feasts for those daies will never be forgotten by the people so long as they continue to be a guide for any busines and that after a generall settlement of all Faires a catalogue thereof may be set forth in Print that all may have sufficient notice of the alterations And that for the better prevention of the frequent stealing of Horses a strict course may be taken that no Horse may be sold in Faire or Market without being entred into the Toll Book with the names of the buyer seller and voucher and of the place of their severall residencies and that the keeper of the toll Book enter no Horse therein unlesse the seller or voucher be known unto him upon paine of making satisfaction for the Horse to the owner that hath lost him and that the voucher not knowing the seller and his place of residence may undergo the like penalty and that an Office may be erected in London into which all keepers of toll Books shall certifie all horses entred into their severall Toll Books with their particular marks and prizes with the names of the buyer seller and voucher and of the places of their severall residencies within one month afrer the entrance of them that being recorded in the said Office all loosers of Horses may repaire thither and be informed where their Horses were sold and the stealer thereby discovered And that some fitting allowance may be given to the keeper of the said Office and some additionall allowance given to the keeper of the toll Book by the buyer and seller of the Horse if it shall be thought requisite in respect of his trouble in certifying the sale thereof into the said Office 14. That none by vertue of any tenure grant charter Office degree or place of residence may be exempted from the ordinary course of Law but that the same justice may be equally administred unto al And that all privileges heretofore granted to any persons or to any corporations or companies in Cities or Burroughs may be seriously considered and such of them made void as shall be found unresonable or oppressive to the people And that all persons resident in Corporations and Burrough Towns may have liberty to appeal to the Judges of Assize or Justices at the generall quarter-Quarter-sessions upon any unjust proceedings against them by the Justices of the said corporations or Burrough-towns otherwise Justices in corporations being either ignorant of