Anno Regni A COB I II. REGIS ngliæ, Scotia, Francia & Hibernia, PRIMO. At the Parliament begun at Westminfter the nineteenth Day of May Anno Dom. 1685, in the first Year of the Reign of our moft Gracious Sovereign Lord JAMES, by the Grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Anno Regni ACOBI II. Regis. in A&t for repealing a Clause for dividing of Commons in an Act of Parliament made in the fifteenth Year of King Charles the Second, intituled, An Act for fettling the Draining of the Great Level of the Fens called Bedford Level. W HEREAS in and by an Act Recital of Second, of ever Bleffed Memory, intituled, of Manors Power to in Level of the Fens called Bedford Level, there is Claufe therein a Provifo, and it was enacted, That it fhould giving Lords and might be lawful for any Perfon or Perfons, Bodies Politick or Corporate, their Heirs and clofe and diSucceffors, that were or fhould be Lords of vide ComManors, or have Right of Common in the mons. Com In Purfuance Lords have Commons and Waftes in the faid Level And whereas fince the paffing of the there of many Act feveral Lords of Manors, and others w had Right of Common in the faid Commo and Waftes, did divide and take their Shares or Proportions thereof. divided and inclosed. Taking and mons into And whereas fuch taking and cutting cutting Com- the faid Commons and Waftes into fa fmall Pieces Pieces is fince found to be very prejudic found to be ve- to the Owners and Country, being a gre ry prejudicial; Wafte of Ground in Divifion, which ar hard to be kept as Fences between Party and Party, the Roadways and Paffages through fuch Commons as fet forth being very low, and generally in bad Ground, not paffable or we to be amended, whereby fuch Divifions are of little Value. occafions De- AD whereas it occafions great Diminution crease of Stock of Stock and Decay of Houfes, many Perlons and Houses. felling their Shares of Common from the House it belongs unto, to a great Impoverish ment and Increase of the Poor; to prevent any further Inconveniencies thereby, Be it enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and the Advice and Affent of the Lords Spiand Temporal, and Commons in this liament affembled, and by the Authority the fame, That the faid Clause in the said Said Claufe t for fuch dividing and inclofing, fhall be repealed. is hereby repealed and made void, to all ents and Purposes; and that no more Divins or Inclosures fhall be hereafter made of e faid Waftes and Commons therein mentied pursuant to the faid Act; any Thing erein contained to the contrary notwithstand g. Provided always, and it is further enacted, Inclosures alChat all Inclofures already made, and certified ready made, nto the Petty-bag Office pursuant to the faid and certified to be enjoyed Act, fhall be held and enjoyed by the Owners by the Ownthereof, as fully to all Intents and Purposes as if this A&t had not been made. ers. Cattle con and whereas feveral Perfons and Townships Agreements finding the Inconveniencies of dividing and for Stint of cutting aforefaid, did come unto Agreements firmed by Deand bound themselves not to divide, but to crees of Chanfeed and order the faid Commons and Wastes cery. by Way of an equal Stint of Cattle in a like Proportion, to their great Advantage and Improvement; and those Agreements have been confirmed by the Decrees of his Majefty's High Court of Chancery. Be it therefore enacted, That all fuch A- Hereby And |