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and profit of the said officers, in consideration for their said 

 pains. 



And it is further agreed as is aforesaid, that the Orders and All orders 

 Bye- Laws, and Pains, so made and agreed upon by the said onier ^ 

 Order-makers, or the greater number of them, being not contrary Makers, not 

 nor repugnant to the true intent and meaning of the parties to 



these presents in this book expressed, shall stand and be good and force till they 



available and be kept until some other Order in that behalf be b y the^ike 



made by the said Order-makers or the greater number of them at authority. 



the like time assembled, whether the consents of the lords or 



owners of the said Manors, or any of them, or of any other tenant 



or owner of any lands, tenements or hereditaments in Cottenham 



aforesaid, their or any of their heirs, successors or assigns, be had 



or not ; provided always that the said Orders and Bye- Laws, nor 



any of them, shall not extend to the rating of the said Inhabitants 



to any certain number of cattle, except milch kine. And if any 



rate for milch kine shall be made hereafter, it shall extend to all 



the inhabitants in general, and not that any one person that hath 



right of Common for keeping milch kine, according to the true 



intent of these presents, shall be rated to keep more milch kine 



than another, saving, that it shall be lawful for the parson of the 



Rectory of Cottenham to keep eight kine, above the rate, so that he 



keep not above twenty kine in all, at one time. 



ARTICLE XXIV 



And it is also agreed, as aforesaid, that the said makers of Orders Orders to be 

 shall within fifteen days after the making of the said Orders cause ^[51^1^ in 

 the same to be put in writing and published in the Parish Church the Chapel 

 of Cottenham aforesaid ; and shall at the same time that they do ^ e ^ days 

 make Orders, appoint yearly two of the Inhabitants to be Officers after made. 

 for the town for one whole year. And that the said two Officers 

 shall see the said Orders and Bye- Laws, so made and agreed upon, 

 kept and performed, and, as well the said Bailiffs of the said Lords 

 shall or may distrain for and levy the one half of the said penalties, 



