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aforesaid, all and every the amerciaments and penalties imposed, 

 or hereafter to be imposed, upon any person or persons whatsoever, 

 for the not repairing of the said banks and ditches wherewith they 

 now are, or hereafter shall be charged by the judgment of the 

 town officers for the time being, the penalties and amerciaments so 

 taken and levied shall be bestowed and dispended upon the said 

 banks and ditches, decayed, until they be sufficiently repaired. 



ARTICLE XIX 



And also it is agreed, as aforesaid, that Smithy Fen shall continue Robert Ri- 

 and remain for ever dowelled and staked according as it now lieth, teen 'roods 

 saving that the said Inhabitants shall have the fourteen roods to be for the 

 that Robert Rivers had in Smithy Fen, which was laid by Sir charge for 

 Francis Hinde, Knight, deceased, to a cottage tenement, wherein ever. 

 the said Robert Rivers now dwelleth, in Cottenham aforesaid, 

 belonging to the Crowlands hold ; and that those fourteen roods 

 shall be laid and dispersed into several parcels, one parcel of two 

 roods to every fee, where the said Robert Rivers usually had the 

 same, upon the outside of every fee next the stake or landmark for 

 the parcels of the said fen belonging to the Manor of Burdlaries 

 alias Harlstones, and that the said Inhabitants of Cottenham, their 

 heirs and assigns, shall so take and enjoy the same hereafter for 

 ever, and bestow the profit thereupon arising upon the common 

 charges of the said town. 



ARTICLE XX 



Also, it is agreed, as aforesaid, that the said Inhabitants of The Town 

 Cottenham, shall have to them, their heirs and assigns, all the woodgrow- 

 wood that is growing or that hereafter shall be growing in the ing in the 

 common fens, wastes, and commonable grounds in Cottenham, to public use. 

 bear such the common charges as before mentioned, for ever ; 

 except, that every one, their heirs and assigns, shall or may take 

 such of the said Wood as they or any of them have planted or 



