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carried out but by the Grand-Master, who shall cause the 

 officials to proceed in his presence to the defining and 

 estimate of the fellings and martellages, and who shall 

 make the auction sales and veritications with the same 

 formalities observed for our woods ; he shall determine the 

 expenses and dues of our Officers and others employed by 

 him according to their work, for which they shall be paid 

 from the proceeds of the auction. 



' 7. We enjoin on ecclesiastics and communities ex- 

 pressly to charge their farmers, stewards, receivers, 

 merchants, and purchasers at auction to make in their 

 woods the same reserves as are ordered in ours ; and we 

 will that these be made by the receivers, farmers, or 

 merchants, to the number and in the form ordered, 

 although they may not be bound to this by their lease, 

 bargain, or term of sale, under pain of arbitrary fine to our 

 profit, and confiscation of the purchase-money, and of the 

 wood felled, with restitution, damages, and compensation 

 for loss to the benefice or community, which money shall 

 be funded, and the revenue appropriated to the hospital 

 nearest to the place during the life of the beneficiary. 



' 8. The purchaser by auction of the woods thus sold 

 shall consign the price into the hand of some notable 

 burgess commissioned by the Grand-Master, under nomi- 

 nation by the ecclesiastics, commanders, stewards, receivers, 

 and administrators, to be paid to the contractor, who shall 

 not be discharged of liability for reparation until after his 

 works shall have been taken over by the people having 

 cognisance of them. 



4 9. The purchaser by auction shall be bound to observe 

 in exploiting all that is prescribed for this in our woods by 

 the present ordinance, and to cause the verification to be 

 proceeded with as soon as the time for bringing out the 

 wood has expired, under pain of arbitrary fine, and of his 

 remaining responsible for any depredations committed on 

 the sale and in the returns without appeal or modification. 



' 10. All contracts, letters, minutes, and other deeds 

 concerning visitations, estimates, calculations, permissions, 



