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Manor of Burdlaries alias Harlstones, three Copyhold Tenants of the 

 same Manor, shall be named there by the Master of Christ College 

 in Cambridge, or the Farmers of the said Manor of Burdlaries, or 

 his or their deputy ; and for the Manor belonging to the Rectory, 

 three Copyhold Tenants of the same Manor shall be named by the 

 Parson of Cottenham, for the time being, or his deputy or Farmer. 

 And, there shall be then named by the Dean and Chapter of Ely 

 and their successors, farmers or assigns, for the Manor of Pelhams, 

 two Copyhold tenants of the same Manor ; and that Thomas 

 Alcock, his heirs and assigns or farmers, for his moiety of the 

 Manor of Sames, shall then name one Copyhold tenant of the said 

 Manor ; and upon or in default of such nomination to be made, by 

 any of the said lords, their farmers or assigns, the Copyholders of 

 every the said Manors, so named as is aforesaid, or the greater 

 number of them, shall within one week then next following, 

 nominate and appoint so many Copyholders of every of the said 

 Manors as is aforesaid as shall not be nominated or appointed by 

 the said lords, their farmers, or assigns, as is aforesaid : all which 

 customary tenants so named, or so many of them as shall be so 

 named and will ; the Farmers of the Manor or Rectory of Cotten- 

 ham ; the Farmers of the Manor of Crowlands, if they will ; and so 

 many of the Freeholders of the same Town inhabiting there as 

 will, shall on the twelfth day of January next coming, and yearly 

 after, on every twelfth day of January, before ten o'clock in the 

 forenoon (not being Sunday, if it shall fall upon the Sunday, then 

 the next day following at the same time) meet in the Chapel in 

 Cottenham aforesaid, sometime used for a school-house, and that 

 they or the greater number of them that do so meet, shall and may 

 make Orders and Bye- Laws, for the feeding, mowing, ditching, 

 fishing, or other convenient usage of all the Fens, Wastes, and 

 Commonable Grounds, in Cottenham aforesaid, and assess Pains 

 and Penalties of or upon the breakers of the same or any of them. 

 And that the said twenty customary tenants, so named as aforesaid, 

 or so many of them as shall be so named to be Order Makers, in 

 manner and form as is herein mentioned, shall so remain and 



