A. D. 1663. Anno decimo quinto Caroli II. C. 17. 2S^ lipon what Pcrfons or Lands the faiJ Sums of Money Co in arrear for Taxes and Penalties as aforefaid, fhall be charged, and the faid Taxes and Penahics (liajl be accordingly levied upon fuch Perfons or Lands, and in fuch Manner, and by fuch Ways and Means, as fliall be direded, ordered and decreed by the Ju- dicature aforefaid, or any ivvfo of them, and as if fuch Direction, Order and Decree had been particularly hereby enabled. '.' XXIII. And whereas particular Perfons and Pariflies do conceive and alledge. That the Dreining of one complaints by
- Place hath drowned and made worfe the Lands in other Places : (2) And whereas divers Perfons Tilcewife particular Per-
< do alledge and complain. That the faid ninety-five thoufand Acres in many Places are not indifferently *';'"* ^f"* P»-
- Yet out or allotted according to the Law made at Lyn in the fixth Year of the late King Chnrles, nor ac- ■■'""='•
- cording to Agreement made with the CouiUry ; but in many Places greater Quantities have been taken
- from the Owners, Commoners and Townfhips than ought to have been ; and that fome Lands have
' been taken as belonging to one Parilh and County, which in Truth did belong to another; and in many • Places the Allotments have been taken very inconvenient for the Townfhips, which ought not to have ♦ been by the faid Agreement : And whereas the Dreining aforefaid and future Maintenance of the laid Great • Level ought to be without Prejudice to Navigation : (3} And becaufe all Complaints which have been • made, and all Prejudices which have been or Ihall be done to particular Perfons, Parifhes and Places, • cannot by this Aft be fufEciently provided for and remedied ;' XXIV. Be it further enabled by the Authority aforefaid, That Sir John Tracy Knight, Sir Charles Mor- Commidinrers , iard. Sir Nicholas Lejlraiige, Baronets, Sir TFilliain Hovel, Knight, Echvard Pepis, Humphry Beddlngfield, f""' hearing the i Nicholas Stlleman, Efquires, for the County oj Norfolk-, (z) Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight of the Bat}, Sir ^'^iDiff/tinte^ I Lionel Tolimach Baronet, St "John Duncombe Knight, Sir Edmond Poolcy K.nghi, Sir George Reeve Knight , and Baronet, Sir George IFeiieve Knight, Thomas I Fdldegrave Y,{qure, for the County oi Suffolk ; (3) Sir Dudley North, Sir Thomas Wendy, Knights of the Bath, Levinus Bcmiet Efquire, Robert King, John Pepis, Doftors of the Law, Thomas Crouch, Francis North, Efquires, for the County of Coffzir/V/^^ ; (4) Sir TIjo- r/ias Sclater Baronet, Lejirange Colthrop, John Milleccnt, Thomas Hall, John Sothehy, Efquires, John Bing Efquire, and TVilUani Wrerm Efquire, for the Ifle oi Ely (5) S'n Francis Cojnpton Knight, Robert Jp- precce, Sutton Afifield, Efquires, Anthony South TioGiox of the Law, Robert Payne, Richard Nayler, ' Ferrers of Gedding-, Efquires, for the County of Huntington ; (6) Sir William Dudley Knight and Baronet, ' MauriceTreJham, Francis Kirkham, Lewis Palmer, ChriJlopherThurJhy, Francis Lane, GcorgeTreJIiam, Efquiresy
- hx thtConnt^ oi Northampton ; (7) ?>x Charles HuJJ'ey, Six John Newton, Baronets, Sx Thomas Me en. Sir
- Anthony Ireby, Knights, Six Anthony OLlfield Baronet, Richard Brownloiu, Daniel Rhodes, Efquires, for the
County of Lincoln ; fhall be, and are hereby made and conftituted the prefent Commiffioners for the Pur- pofes herein mentioned. i XXV. And for the fupplying the Number of the Commifiioneis of the faid refpeftive Counties, in Cafe of Death or other Avoidance or Incapacity; (2) Be it alfo enafted. That within three Months after fuch , Death, or Notice of fuch Avoidance or Incapacity, the remaining Commiffioners of each refpecStive County, of which fuch Commiffioners who died, or became incapable, were, or the major Part of them, fhall from Time to Time nominate and appoint by Deed under their Hands and Seals to be enrolled in Chancery, fome other Perfon or Perfons refiding within the faid County, of which the faid Commiffioners who died. Or became incapable were, to be Commiffioners in the Place and Stead of him or them fo dying or be- coming incapable; (3) which faid Commiffioners hereby conftituted, or hereafter to be conflituted in The Pc-A-erana Manner aforefaid, or any feven or more of them be, are and fhall be hereby authorized and impov/ered Authority of from Time to Time to hear and determine fuch Complaints, Controverfies, Differences and Grievances as thefauiconj- are in this hSt expreffed (relating to, or concerning, or occafioned by, the Draining and Maintaining the ""°""^' faid Great Level) of any Parifh or Townfhip, or of any Perfon or Perfons, as well within or without the ' faid Level, in fuch Manner as is herein after expreffed : (4) And that the faid Commiffioners hereby con- flituted, or hereafter to be conflituted in Manner aforefaid, or any feven or more of them, fliall from Time to Time have Power and Authority, and are hereby required, at or before the eight and twentieth i Day of September which fhall be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand fix hundred fixty and fix, to give or make Satisfaflion out of the faid ninety-five thoufand Acres, to fuch Parifh or Townfhip, Perfon or Per- fons, whofe Lands or Interefi: therein, 'either within or without the faid Level, fnall after the firit Day of A4ay ■ one thoufand fix hundred fixty and three, be made worfe in Quality or Condition by the aforefaid Drein- in" or Vv'orks, than they were before the Undertaking the Draining of the faid Level in the fixthYcarof the Reign of our late King Charles of Bleffed Memory, and proportionable to the Loffes the Owners of, or Perfons inteiefted in fuch Lands, fhall hereafter receive by Reafon of their Lands being made worfe in Quality or Condiiion by any fuch Works and Dreining as aforefaid; (5) and (Iiall alfo have Power at any Time within four Years from the four and twentieth Day oi" June in the Year of our Lord one thoufand fix hun- dred fixty and three, to alter, change and reflore fucii Parts and Parcels of the faid ninety-five thoufand Acres, as fhall upon Complaint be found and adjudged by the faid Commiffioners, or any feven or more of them, to be unequally, unduly or inconveniejitly fet forth, by Reafon of any Allotting, either of greater ' Quantities, or as belonging to other Counties, Parifhes or Manors, or in more inconvenient Places, than i they were formerly allotted and fet out by a Law of Sewers made at Saint Ives tTie twelfth Day of OSiobcr in the thirteenth Year of King Charles the Firft, nctwithftanding any Vefting of the faid ninety-five thoufand Acres, or any Part thereof, in the King's Majefly, or in the faid Governor, Bailiffs and Com- monalty, or in any other Perfons before mentioned, or any Eftates executed by them or any of them. XXVl. Provided, and be it enacted. That ninety-three Acres in Ravely and Upwood, feventy-fix Acres in Ravelv irn. i Sothery, forty-four Acres and one Rood mTVicken, eighty-eightA^cres in Covrfenn, two hundred eigty-twoAcres weed,' Sothery, in BeevJing, and thirty-feven Acres in Upwell, fet out to be enjoyed as Part of the faid ninety-five thoufand wick' n, Co-w- Acres fuice the making the faid Law of Saint Foes, in Lieu of like Proportions altered and reftored to the f'^""; Beezlmg, Country, fhall be held and enjoyed by the faid Corporation, fubjed: neverthelefs to the Trufl: in and by this O o 2 KQ.
