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XXXIX.How and for what Terms Archbishops, Bishops, &c. may make Leases.

Provided alwayes and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull to and for every Arch bisshop Bisshop Deane and Chapter and all Colledges and Halls in either University [X1and all Bodies Politique & Corporate] who are [X1or shalbee] Lords of Mannors or have [X1or shall have] Right of Soyle or Coo[m]mon in the Wasts within the said Levell, [X1or within such other Townes Parishes & Places into which the Workes of the Dreyning aforesaid doe or shall extend] and who are by this Act impowred to improve sett out inclose divide and sever such Proportion or Proportions as to them shall or may respectively belong or appertaine out of the said Commons and Wasts within the said Levell to demise by Indenture all and every the said such Proportion or Proportions as to them shall or may respectively belong or appertaine out of the said Coo[m]mons or Wasts within the said Levell which have not by expresse Words and [X1under any particular Rent binne at any Time formerly] demised for any Terme or Number of Yeares not exceeding one and twenty Yeares so as upon every such Demise or Lease be reserved the fourth Part of the true yearly Value to be ascertained by the Comissioners aforesaid or any seaven of them due and payable yearly during the said Terme to him or them and his and their Successors.

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