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A. D. 1539. Anno tricefimo primo II in rici VIII. C. 1 r — 1 3. 265 C A I'. XI. The Authority given to the King by the Statute of 28 H. 8. c. 3. to allot the Towns in Walts, continued 1. x r. for three "*> 1 CAP. xn. It fhall be Felony to take in the King's Ground any Egg or Bird of any Faulcon, Gofhawk or Lnncr, out of the Ncft ; or to find or take up any Faulcon, Jertaulcon, Jeikin, Sacer or Sacerit, Gofhav.l:, 1 or Lancritc, of the King's, and having on it the King's Arms and Vervilcs, and do not within twelve Days bring or knA the lame t-> the .Mailer of the King's Hawks, or to one of his Faulconers, or to the Chief of the Shire ; (2) or between the rifing of the Sun, and fetting of the fame, with his Face hid or covered with Hood or Vifcrf, or painted, or difguifed, to the Intent hi- would not be known, to enter into any Forcft, Chafe or Park of the King's, Queen's, Prince's, or any of the King's Children, or into any other Ground of either of theirs inclofed with Wall or Pale, ordained for the keeping of Deer, to the Intent to (teal any of them, or to drive any of them forth of the fame Foreft, £s7. or in or at any Time of the Day, with his Face hid or difguifed, to kill any Conies or Rabbits within any Ground, RFP. 1 Zi. 6. being the lawful Warren of the King's, &c. in or within any of his or their Parks ; or in the Night to c< "• r into any Park, Chafe or Foreit of the King's, £sV. to the Intent to Ileal any Deer, or into his or J 2*"Jt , c '_' their Warren to kill and fteal any Lonies. 7 L A t 6. c 41. CAP. XIII. An Act for Difiblution of Monafteries and Atbics. j X7 HERE divers and fundry Abbots, Priors, AbbcfTes, Priorefles and other EcclefialTical Governors How Leaks ' VV and GovcrncfTes of divers Monafteries, Abbathies, Priories, Nunneries, Colleges, Hofpitals, made of Manor* ' Houfes of Friers and other Religious and EcclefiafHcal Houfes and Places within this our Sovereign Lord belonging to ' the King's Realm of England and Wales, of their own free and voluntary Minds, good Wills and Af- v 1 ,""* "^ i( [ "

  • fents, without Conftraint, Coatftion or CompuHion of any manner of Perfon or Perfons, fithen the fourth flliw j ' to tre

' Day of February the twenty- feventh Year of the Reign of our now moll dread Sovereign Lord, by the King, (hall take ' due Order and Courfe of the Common Laws of this his Realm of England, and by their fufficient Wri- Effect. ' tings of Record, under their Covent and Common Seals, have feverally given, granted and by the fame 3 Buirt. 151. ' their Writings feverally confirmed all their find Monafteries, Abbathies, Priories, Nunneries, Colleges, " '■ 5 ' ' Hofpitals, Houfes of Friers and other Religious and Ecclefiaftical Houfes and Places, and all their Sites, 1 Circuits and Precincts of the fame, and all and lingular their Manors, Lordfliips, Granges, Meafes, ' Lands, Tenements, Meadows, Paftures, Rents, Reverfions, Services, Woods, Tithes, Penfions, Por- ' tions, Churches, Chapels, Advowfons, Patronages, Annuities, Rights, Entries, Conditions, Commons, ' Leets, Courts, Liberties, Privileges and Franchifes, appertaining or in any wife belonging to any fuch ' Monaftery, Abbathy, Priory, Nunnery, College, Hofpital, Houfe of Friers and other Religious and ' Ecclefiaftical Houfes and Places, or to any of them, by whatfoever Name or Corporation they or any of ' them were then named or called, and of what Order, Habit, Religion, or other Kind or Quality foever ' they or any of them were then reputed, known or taken ; to have and to hold all the faid [Monafteries, i ' Abbathies, Priories, Nunneries, Colleges, Hofpitals, Houfes of Friers, and other Religious and Ecclefi- ' aftical Houfes and Places, Sites, Circuits, Precincts, Manors, Lands, Tenements, Meadows, Paftures, ' Rents, Reverfions, Services and all other the PremifTes, to our faid Sovereign Lord, his Heirs and Suc-

' ccflbrs for ever, and the fame their faid Monalteries, Abbathies, Priories, Nunneries, Colleges, Hofpitals,

' Houfes of Fliers, and other Religious and Ecclefiaftical Houfes and Places, Sites, Circuits, Precincts, 1 Manors, Lordfhips, Granges, Meafes, Lands, Tenements, Meadows, Paftures, Rents, Reverfions, ' Services and other the PremifTes, voluntarily as is aforefaid, have renounced, left and forfaken, and every ' of them hath renounced, left and forfaken :' II. Be it therefore enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Monafteries and the Commons, in this prelent Parliament aflembled, and by Authority of the fame, That the King our So- their Lands, be- vereign Lord fhall have, hold, pollefs and enjoy to him, his Heirs and Succeflbrs for ever, all and fingular forefumnderei fuch late Monafteries, Abbathies, Priories, Nunneries, Colleges, Hofpitals, Houfes of Friers, and other c [ V j' n fl °o t h e Religious and Ecclefiaftical Houfes and Places, of what Kinds, Natures, Qualities or Diverfities of Habits, j^inc. Rules, ProfefTions or Orders they or any of them were named, known or called, which fith the faid fourth Day of February the twenty-feventh Year of the Reign of our faid Sovereign Lord, have been difTolved, fupprefled, renounced, relinquifhed, forfeited, given up, or by any other Mean come to his Highnefs ; (2) 27 H. 8. f. i». and by the fame Authority, and in like Manner fhall have, hold, poflefs and enjoy all the Sites, Circuits, Bro. Choie en Precincts, Manors, Lordfhips, Granges, Meafes, Lands, Tenements, Meadows, Paftures, Rents, Rever- I4 ' lions, Services, Woods, Tithes, Penfions, Portions, Parfonages appropriated, Vicarages, Churches, Cha- pels, Advowfons, Nominations, Patronages, Annuities, Rights, Interefts, Entries, Conditions, Commons, Leets, Courts, Liberties, Privileges, Franchifes and other whatfoever Hereditaments, which appertained or belonged to the faid late Monafteries, Abbathies, Priories, Nunneries, Colleges, Hofpitals, Houfes of Friers, and other Religious and Ecclefiaftical Houfes and Places, or to any of them, in as large and ample Manner and Form, as the late Abbots, Priors, AbbefTes, Pnoreffes and other Ecclefiaftical Governors and Governefles of fueh late Monafteries, Abbathies, Priories, Nunneries, Colleges, Hofpitals, Houfes of . Friers and other Religious and Ecclefiaftical Houfes and Places, had, held or occupied, or of Righrought V ol. II. M m ' to