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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50662	A guide to surveyors of the high-ways shewing the office and duty of such surveyors, with several cases and resolutions in law relating to the same : collected and gathered out of publick acts of Parliament now in force, and out of the year-books, and other books of the municipal laws of this kingdom : with an abridgment of the statute of 22 H. 8 Chap. 5 for the repairing of bridges, with cases relating thereunto : and likewise a summary of the statutes made for paving, cleansing &c., streets, lanes, &c., in London and other towns and places, and an abstract of statutes made for the repairs of high-ways and bridges in particular places, methodiz'd into short chapters for the ready finding out any matter contain'd in the book / by G. Meriton, Gent.	Meriton, George, 1634-1711.	1694 (1694)	Wing M1799; ESTC R23533	92,726	194

levy or cause to be levied by distress or lawful means the said Forfeitures and Sum of Mony so assessed and may make such Avowry Cognizance or Justification as by the Common Laws may be made for Arrearages of Rent-Charge and shall have like Judgment Costs Damages and Return All and singular Person and Persons 18 El. ch 19. Paving Rast 7. Stat. at large printed 1587. f. 618 619. Keb. St. 1. 863. their Heirs and Successors which shall be immediate Owners Land-Lords or Ter-Tenants of any Houses Lands or Tenements within the City of Chichester in Fee-simple Fee-tail or for Life or Years shall from time to time by the assignment of the Mayor for the time being pave or cause to be paved with good paving Stones along from and against his or their House and Houses Lands and Tenements adjoyning to the Street so much of the said Street in length to the Channel or to such place as the Channel there shall be by the Mayor appointed Pain for not paving upon pain to forfeit for every Yard square not sufficiently paved within two months after warning thereof given by the major-part upon the Presentment thereof made before him by the Oaths of twelve honest Men of the said City chosen for that purpose the Sum of three shillings and four pence and the Owners Land-Lords and Ter-Tenants of any House Houses Lands or Tenements in Fee-simple c. within the said City adjoyning to any of the greater Streets there called the East West North and South-Streets their Heirs and Successors shall from time to time maintain and repair the said Street and Streets so adjoyning with like Stone against their Houses c. in such like manner as above declared in pain of twenty Pain for no● keeping Streets in repair and w●ll paved pence for every Yard square not sufficiently repaired and amended and being presented in manner and form aforesaid which Forfeitures shall be to the use of the Mayor and Citizens towards the maintenance and repairs of the City Walls and the Mayor for Mayor to make inquiry every quarter of a year and to levy Penalties by distress the time being shall have power every quarter of a Year to enquire of the Defaults by the Oaths of twelve Men and to levy or cause to be levied the said Forfeitures by distress or other lawful means and make such Avowry Cognizance or Justification as by the Common Laws may be made for Arrearages of Rent and have like Judgment for Costs Damages and Return The Lessee for Years or at Lessees to defalk out of their Rents Will may defalk and abate so much out of their Land-Lords Rents as they shall expend in such paving i● there be no Covenant to the contrary CHAP. XVI An Abstract of the Statutes made for repairing Huntington-Lane near the City of Chester the common High-way called the Cawsey lying in the Counties of Dorset and Somerset between the Towns of Shaftsbury and Sherborne and for amending the High-ways within five Miles of the City of Oxford BY the Statute of 37 H. 8. Huntington-Lane 37 H. 8 ch 3. High-ways Rast 2. Stat. at large printed 1587. f. 1011. Keb. St. f. 606. near the City of Chester being in length two miles and an half or thereabouts is to be repaired from time to time by one that shall dwell in the said Lane who shall have Grass Pasture or Feeding for five Kine or five other kind of Beasts or Head of Cattel in and upon the said High-way and upon the sides of the same from Bothil to Butterback-Bridge Sir William Stanley and Sir Hugh Calverly and their Heirs Males being of full Age and in default of them the Mayor and Aldermen of Chester shall appoint the said Party and remove him if he be negligent in repairing any part of the said Way By the Statute of the first of Queen 1 M. Sess 3. ch 5. St. a● large printed 1587. f. 230 231. Shirbone Rast 1. Keb. St. f. 716. Mary The common High-way called the Cawsey paved with Stone in the Counties of Dorset and Somerset between the Towns of Shaftsbury and Sherborne being about twelve miles in length shall be repaired and amended Who chargable to the repairs by the Owners Tenants Farmers and Inhabitants of the Mannors Lands Tenements and Parishes lying nigh to the said Cawsey on either side thereof and by the Inhabitants of the Towns of Shaftsbury and Sherborne and by the Owners Tenants and Farmers of Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and by the Inhabitants of and within the Forest of Gillingham and Liberties of Gillingham and Alcetter and the Hundreds of Redlane and Sherborne in the County of Dorset and of the Hundred of Horthorne in the County of Somerset and Justices of Peace ●o make Orders and set Fines the Justices of Peace of the said Counties at their Quarter-Sessions or otherwise may call before them or four of them at the least two to be of the Quorum so many of the Persons bound to repair and amend the said Cawsey as they think fit and to make Orders and Assessments from time to time towards the repair thereof and may set Fines on Defaulters and make Orders for levying by distress the said Assessments and Fines and for a yearly Account to be made of the same to whom they appoint and the said Orders to be entred and inrolled of Record by the Clerks of the Peace of the said two Counties in the Rolls of the Sessions and all Pains and Pains and Penalties how to be bestowed Penalties to go towards the amendment of the said Cawsey and if the Justices refuse to put this Act in execution then upon request of the Lord Chancellor of England or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal shall make a Commission to certain discreet Persons to put this Act in execution who shall have the same Power and Authority as is given to the Justices of Peace by this Act. It is enacted by the Statute of 18 El. 18 Eliz chap. 20. Bridges Rast 4. St. at large printed 1587. f. 619 620 Keb. St. f. 863 864 That every Person and Persons resident dwelling or inhabiting within five miles of the City of Oxford and having in his Occupation to the use of himself or any other a Yard-Land or more in Tillage Pasture or other Ground or using a Draught Plow or Wain at their own proper Costs and Charges for every such Yard-Land is to send one Wain Draught or Cart furnished after the Custom of the Country with Necessaries convenient and two able Men for amending repairing and upbuilding of decayed Bridges Ways and Passages within a mile of the said City and every other Housholder Cottager or Labourer within the said Circuit being no hired Servant must go themselves or send a sufficient Labourer to the repairing the same and all to be at the command of certain Supervisors to be appointed by the Vice-Chancellor and Mayor with other Justices of