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A73961 By the King. A proclamation concerning assart lands; Proclamations. 1605-05-12 England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625. 1605 (1605) STC 8372; ESTC S123957 915 1

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❧ By the King ¶ A Proclamation concerning Assart lands WHereas by our Proclamation giuen at our Pallace of Westminster the xvii day of February in the second yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine France and Ireland Wee did publish and make it knowen to our louing Subjects that for their Common good and quiet and for auoyding of chargeable and tedious Sutes we had by our Commission vnder the great Seale of England giuen full power and authoritie vnto certaine Commissioners in the said Commission mentioned for Vs and in our name to bargaine sell and conclude for diuers our Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments called Assarts Wasts or Purprestures which are or were within the limits of some of our Forrests to and with any person or persons and their heires in Fee-ferme or other estate of inheritance with a discharge of the meane profits as by our said Proclamation may more at large appeare Whereupon we doubted not but our louing Subiects whom it did concerne and who haue bene long in possession of the said Lands at very low Rates would haue taken care in time to haue prouided for their owne profit safetie and peace therein And neuerthelesse wee are of late enformed that hitherto very fewe of them haue appeared before our said Commissioners to compound or conclude for any of our said Messuages Lands Tenements or Hereditaments and was expected presuming as it seemeth that they may take their owne times and leasure for it and in the meane time some others neuer possessed of the said Messuages Lands Tenements or Hereditaments haue in their default offred to compound and conclude with vs for the same Wherein our desire is that the long and ancient possessors of the said Lands should herein be preferred before all others These are therefore to signifie our further pleasure That all such as be possessed of any the said Messuages Lands Tenements or Hereditaments and doe purpose or thinke good for their owne profit safetie and quiet to compound or conclude with our said Commissioners for any the said Messuages Lands Tenements or Hereditaments called Assarts Wasts or Purprestures which are or were within the limits of any of our Forrests or Chases shall come in and attend our said Commissioners concerning the same betwixt this and the first of October now next ensuing otherwise in their default we will dispose thereof to others as we shall see cause Giuen at our Mannour of East-Greenwich the xij day of May in the third yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine France and Ireland Gold saue the King ❧ Imprinted at London by Robert Baker Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie ANNO DOM. 1605.