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COMMON RIGHTS AT 



ARTICLE XVII 



Lords may 

 plant the 

 banks with 

 wood and 

 have the 

 profit, with 

 the fishing 

 and Char- 

 lode to the 

 town. 



And also it is agreed that any of the Lords in Cottenham, their 

 heirs and assigns, and the Freeholders and Copyholders in Cotten- 

 ham aforesaid, their heirs and assigns, may plant and set any kind 

 of Wood or Willows, Oziers, Sallows, or other Wood upon that 

 part or parts of the banks or ditches to him or them limited, to be 

 repaired at his or their pleasures, and likewise that he or they 

 which so shall plant the same, they, their heirs, and assigns, shall 

 or may take the commodity thereof for ever. And the fishing and 

 other profit of those parts of the ditches and banks, to them 

 severally limited, to be repaired, and the same to use at his or 

 their discretion as often as they or any of them shall think good 

 and convenient, without any denial of any person or persons what- 

 soever, having right to any Estate of Inheritance of or in any 

 Lands or Tenements within the said town, saving that the said 

 Inhabitants of the said Town of Cottenham, their heirs and assigns, 

 shall have the fishing of the said Charlode for ever, to be let by 

 them, their heirs and assigns, to bear the common charges, 

 whereby the said Inhabitants of the said Town shall or may be, in 

 common or together, charged. 



ARTICLE XVIII 



Officers to 

 levy penal- 

 ties. 



And further it is agreed, as aforesaid, by all the said parties to 

 these presents, for them and every of them, their and every of 

 their heirs and assigns, that the Town Officers that shall be 

 appointed from time to time by the makers of orders, by virtue of 

 this agreement, shall and may levy by way of distress or of 

 distraining of the goods and chattels of any person or persons 

 which shall offend or neglect the performance of any of these 

 orders, whether they be any of the Tenants of the said William 

 Hinde, his heirs or assigns, or of any other, or otherwise which 

 shall be found in any place in the said parish of Cottenham 



