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of the Crown, nor the rights, privileges, or immunities of any chief justice 

 in eyre, or any warden, deputy-warden, or lieutenant of any of his Majesty's 

 forests, or any rangers, verdrivrs, foresters, master-keepers, under-keepers, 

 or other officers of or in any such forests, parks, or chases, or of any person 

 entitled to any right or privilege under them or any of them, nor the 

 rights or privileges of any persons holding under any grants or purchases 

 from the Crown, nor give to any lord of any manor or manors within any 

 forest or the boundaries thereof, nor to any other person whatsoever, any 

 privileges, rights, or powers within any such forest, park, or chase, or the 

 boundaries thereof, which he did not possess or to which he was not 

 entitled before the passing of this act, but that all the aforesaid preroga- 

 tives, immunities, privileges, rights and powers shall remain as if this 

 act had not been made. 



X. Not to affect any cattle gates or right of common Lord of 

 manor to have the yame on the wastes. Provided also, and be it 

 enacted, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to give to 

 any owner of cattlegates or rights of common upon or over any wastes 

 or commons any interest or privilege which such owner was not pos- 

 sessed of before the passing of this act, nor to authorize such owner of 

 cattlegates or rights of common to pursue or kill the game found on' such 

 wastes or commons ; and that nothing herein contained shall defeat or 

 diminish the rights or privileges which any lord of any manor, lordship, 

 or royalty, or reputed manor, lordship, or royalty, or any steward of the 

 Crown of any manor, lordship, or royalty, appertaining to his Majesty, 

 may, before the passing of thig act, have exercised in or over such wastes 

 or commons; and that the lord or steward of the Crown of every manor, 

 lordship, or royalty, or reputed manor, lordship, or royalty, shall have the 

 right to pursue and kill the game upon the wastes or commons within 

 such manor, lordship, or royalty, or reputed manor, lordship, or royalty, 

 and to authorize any other person or persons who shall have obtained an 

 annual game certificate to enter upon such wastes or commons for the 

 purpose of pursuing and killing the game thereon. 



XI. Lanrllnrif, hariiKj tli<> yame, may authorize others to kill it. And 

 be it enacted, that where the lessor or landlord shall have reserved to 

 himself the right of killing the game upon any land, it shall be lawful for 

 him to authorize any other person or persons who shall have obtained an 

 annual game certificate to enter upon such land for the purpose of pursuing 

 and killing game thereon. 



XII. Where the landlord, &c., has the right to the game, in exclusion 

 of the occupier, the occupier thatt be liable to a penalty far hilliyy it. 

 And be it enacted, that where the right of killing the game upon any 

 land is by this act given to any lessor or landlord, in exclusion of the 

 right of the occupier of such land, or where such exclusive right hath 

 been or shall be specially reserved by or granted to, or doth or shall 

 belong to, the lessor or landlord, or any person whatsoever other than the 

 occupier of such land, then and in every such case, if the occupier of such 

 land shall pursue, kill, or take any game upon such land, or shall give 

 permission to any other person so to do, without the authority of the 

 lessor, landlord, or other person having the right of killing the game upon 

 such land, such occupier shall, on conviction thereof before two justices of 



