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mentioned, which keepers or their deputies shall not suffer any 

 cattle to go or feed in any of the said grounds or places, otherwise 

 than is appointed by this Article or shall be appointed hereafter 

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

 And then also in like manner two other persons or more shall be 

 chosen as aforesaid to impound all such cattle as they find feeding 

 in any of the said grounds or places, contrary to any Article con- 

 tained in these presents or contrary to any Order hereafter to be 

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

 And the cattle so impounded shall from time to time be redeemed 

 out of the pound at the costs and charges of the said parties so as 

 aforesaid chosen and hired to be the said keepers. And if in 

 default of the said keepers or their said deputies the owners of the 

 said cattle shall at their own charges redeem their own cattle so 

 impounded out of the pound, then they may abate so much 

 of the said keepers' wages as shall be paid for redeeming of 

 the said cattle. And that every person shall yearly pay for his 

 said lot or part, which he hath of or in the said ground 

 lying between Chitteringhill and the Lott ditch next Topymoor, 

 four-pence, and for every milch cow, which shall be kept or put 

 before any of the said herdsmen of either of the milch herds, 

 between the first day of May, and the four and twentieth day of 

 June, one penny. The which sums of fourpence and one penny 

 shall be employed and paid towards the payment of the said 

 keepers' wages ; and that every person that shall not pay all the 

 said money to such persons as shall be appointed to collect the 

 same within ten days next after the same shall be demanded, shall 

 lose his lot aforesaid for that year, the which lot shall be sold by 

 the Town Officers abovementioned for the time being and the 

 money thereof coming shall be employed toward the bearing of 

 the common charges of the Town, and also towards the payment 

 of the said keepers' wages. And if there shall not be hired any 

 keepers as aforesaid by the Inhabitants in manner and form 

 specified in this Article, then the said Town Officers or their 

 deputies shall and may impound all such cattle as they shall find 



