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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	grant_v	life_n	reversion_n	2,426	5	12.1088	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82838	Instructions agreed upon in Parliament for commissioners, for surveying the forest of Sherwood; the forest, or chase of Needwood; the forest, or chase of Kingswood; the forest, or chase of Ashdown, or Lancaster great Park; and Endfield Chase. In pursuance of an act of this present Parliament, entituled, An act and declaration, touching several acts and ordinances made since the twentieth of April 1653. and before the third of September 1654. and other acts, &c. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th day of September, an. Dom. 1656.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1657 (1657)	Wing E1592; Thomason E1065_25; ESTC R27826	7,181	16

together with any two of the aforesaid Persons appointed on the behalf of the Proprietors Commoners and Persons concerned therein shall not agree then you or any three or more of you Commissioners for each respective Forest or Chase together with any two of the aforesaid persons appointed on the behalf of the Proprietors Commoners and Persons concerned shall joyntly or severally certifie your proceedings therein together with the Causes and Reasons unto the said Committee of Appeal who upon consideration had thereof and hearing what can be said on both sides shall settle the same according as to them or any four of them shall seem just equal And from and after the settlements aforesaid made the said Forests and Chases and all the Mannors Lands and Tenements lying within the Meets and Bonds thereof shall be Deafforested to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever and as if the same had never been Forest And as well the present as all former Owners Possessors of any part of the said Forest or of any Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments lying within the Meets and Bounds thereof their Heirs Successors Executors Administrators and Assigns shall be for ever acquitted and discharged of and from all former and other Wastes Purprestures and Assarts Trespasses and offences against the Forest Law done or suffered in or upon the same XI You are not to alow the Claim of any person or persons Bodies Politike or Corporate Parish or Hamblet to any Demeasn Lands in possession or in reversion or to any other profits or advantages which have formerly been granted by Lease or by Letters Patents for term of Lives or Years under a Rent reserved thereupon which Rent was due and payable according to the said Reservation by vertue of any general words comprehended in any Grant or Grants from the late King Queen or Prince or from the Trustees named in the Act for Sale of the Honors Manors and Lands of the late King Queen or Prince unless the premises so claimed be particularly mentioned in the said Grant or Grants and valued in the particular upon which the said Grant or Grants have been grounded respectively XII After the right or proportion of or belonging to the Commonwealth either as the ancient proper Soyl thereof or by such Compositions and Agreements as aforesaid shall be ascertained you are to inform your selves what the present yearly value of the said Lands in case the same were inclosed may be as the Wood and Timber is now growing upon the same what the value will be being inclosed what the charge of inclosing the same will amount unto what improvement may be made in case the same be cleared and disburthened of the Wood and Timber either by Farming granting Leases or otherwise disposing thereof and what may be most advantageous to the Commonwealth what quantity of Wood and Timber may be taken away and sold and vended thereabouts and in what time and what the value thereof may amount unto and certifie unto Thomas Coke William Bosevile John Sparrow William Kenwrick William Scot William Steel Sylvanus Taylor Thomas Hubbert Cornelius Cook or any four or more of them Trustees nominated by Ordinance for Sale of four Forests or Chases reserved for Colateral Security to the Soldiers XIII You are to consider what High-ways are necessary to be alowed throughout the premises or any part thereof what proportion of ground will be sufficient for that purpose in what place the same may most conveniently be laid out by whom and in what maner the Fences adjacent to them shall be made and kept and set out the Meets and Bounds accordingly XIV You are to take special notice of all Thriving Timber of Oak and Elm which shall be found growing upon any part of the premises and certifie distinctly in each Survey where any such Timber doth grow the number of such Trees respectively how many Loads of clean Timber is in them of what value the Lop Top and Bark of such Trees are how far they grow from the nearest part of any Navigable River and what price by the Load the said Timber is worth upon the place XV. You shall keep a Diary or Iournal of your proceedings and within ten days after full Execution of these Instructions respectively or sooner if you shall be thereunto required certifie under your Hands and Seals or under the Hands and Seals of three or more of you the Surveys by you taken and other your proceedings touching the premises unto Thomas Coke William Bosevile John Sparrow William Kenwrick William Scot William Steel Sylvanus Taylor Thomas Hubbert Cornelius Cook or any four or more of them nominated Trustees by the Ordinance for Sale of four Forests or Chases reserved for Colateral Security to the Soldiers XVI For the speedy and effectual execution of these Instructions you are to imploy an able Clerk and a Messenger for each Forest or Chase respectively and to allow your Clerk five shillings per diem and your Messenger three shillings per diem and you are also to hire laborers two or more for each Forest or Chase to carry your Chains and Instruments for measuring and apportioning of the premises not allowing them nor any of them more then one shilling and six pence per diem for so many days as you shall have occasion to use them for your convement dispatch thereof and to certifie what charge you are at therein to the said Trustees who are to alow the same upon your Accompt XVII You are if need shall require hereby Authorized by your selves or by such Clerk or Clerks as you shall thereunto appoint to search peruse and to take Copies or Extracts of all or any Records or Evidences lying in the Tower of London or elsewhere for the clearing and making out of the Common-wealths Title to the premises without paying any Fees therefore XVIII That the Lord Lambert General Desborow Colonel Sydenham Sir Gilbert Gerrard Knight John Trever and Josias Bernars Esquires or any four of them the Committee of Appeal appointed by the Parliament to hear and determine all and every the matters and things which shal be certified unto them according to these Instructions or otherwise touching the Rights of the Commonwealth the Proprietors Owners and Commoners in the said Forests and Chases respectively as also all other matters and things whatsoever not particularly named in these Instructions which shall be any Obstruction in and touching any the matters aforesaid and for that purpose may send for and examine witnesses upon oath which oath the said Committee of Appeal or any four of them are hereby authorized to Administer And the Determination of the said Committee in and touching the same shall be final And in case the said Committee of Appeal shall be divided equally Then the Lord Commissioner Fines shall settle and determine the matter upon hearing all the Reasons of the said Committee of Appeal whose Determination shall be final London Printed by Henry Hills and John Field Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector 1657.