THE TOWN OF LEWISBORO. 411 



Kent within our Kingdom of Great Britain Yielding Rendering and paying 

 therefore yearly and every year forever unto us our Heirs and Successors at our 

 Custom House in our City of New York unto our or their Collector or Receiver 

 General there for the time, being in the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary 

 commonly called Lady Day — the Yearly Rent of two shillings and sixpence for 

 each hundred Acres of the above Granted Lands and so in proportion for any 

 Lesser Quantity thereof (the Land allowed for Highways only' excepted) in Lieu 

 and stead of all other Rents Services Dues Duties and Demands whatsoever for 

 the above Granted Lands Mines Minerals Tenements Hereditaments and prem- 

 ises or any part thereof, Provided always and upon Condition that if our said 

 Grantees their Heirs and Assigns or one of them shall not within three years next 

 ensuing the date hereof Plant Settle and effectually Cultivate at least three Acres 

 of every fifty Acres of such of the above Granted Lands as are Capable of Culti- 

 vation or if our said Grantees their Heirs or Assigns or any other person or per- 

 sons by their or either of their privity Consent or procurement shall set on fire or 

 Burn the Woods on the said Lands or any part thereof (so as to destroy impair 

 or hinder the Growth of any of the Trees there that are or may be fit for Masts 

 Planks Knees or other things fit for the use of our Royal Navy that then and in 

 either of these Cases this our present Grant and every thing therein Contained 

 shall cease and be void anything hereinbefore Contained to the Contrary notwith- 

 standing Declaring- nevertheless that nothing in these presents Reserved or Con- 

 tained shall or ought to be Construed to extend or be intended to prohibit or in 

 any wise hinder our said Grantees their Heirs or Assigns or either of them from 

 such Burniug of the Woods or Cutting down or falling of the Trees that are or 

 shall be Growing or being on the above Granted Lands or any part thereof as 

 shall be necessary or Conducive to the Cleaning and effectual Cultivating the 

 same Lands or any part thereof or to or for their own use or uses And we do 

 hereby further Declare that by the said Burning of the Woods is only meant and 

 intended that our said Grantees their Heirs and Assigns are to be restrained only 

 from setting fire to and burning any Timber or Trees while they are standing 

 and Growing upon the above granted Lands or any part thereof And we do like- 

 wise Declare that the Reservation of all Trees of the Diameter of twenty-four 

 inches and upwards at twelve inches from the Ground for Masts for our Royal 

 Navy and of such other Trees as may be fit to make Planks Knees and other 

 things necessary for the use of our said Royal Navy is not, ought not, to be Con- 

 strued to hinder our said Grantees or either of them their or either of their Heirs 

 or Assigns from Clearing or effectually Cultivating the above granted Lands or 

 any part thereof And we do moreover of our Especial Grace Certain Knowledge 

 and meer motion Consent and Agree that this our present Grant being entered on 

 Record as is hereinafter particularly expressed shall be good and effectual in the 

 Law to all intents Constructions and purposes against us our Heirs and Success- 

 ors notwithstanding any misreciting misbounding misnaming or other Imper- 

 fection Omission of or in anywise Concerning the above Granted or intended to 

 be herein Granted Lands Tenements Hereditaments Mines Minerals and Prem- 

 ises or any part thereof in Testimony whereof We have caused these our Letters 

 to be made Patent and the Great Seal of our said Province to be hereunto affixed 

 and the same to be entered on Record in our Secretary's Office in one of the 

 Books of Patents there remaining Witness our said Trusty and Well beloved 



