¶ Instruccions, given by the kings majesty, to his Commissioners, appoyntted for the execution of certain statutes, made in the fourth year of the reign of king Henry the seventh and the .vii. and the .xxvii. year of the reign king Henry the eight, to be enquired of, in the Shires and places, in the Commission hereunto annexed, expressed.  
FIrst, ye shall inquire what tounes, villages, and hamletes, haue been decayed and laid down, by enclosures, within the Shire contained, within your Commission, sithe the first year of the reign, of king Henry the seventh.  
Item, what land was in tillage, at the time of the said enclosures, and what was then in pasture.  
Item, how mnay ploughs, by reason of the said enclosures, be decayed & laid down.  
Item, how many Meases, Houses, Cottages, and dwelling houses, be fallen in decay, and the inhabitants of the same, departed from their inhabitacion there, by reason of enclosures taken away of the lands, or otherwise. And how much land, belonged to the same.  
Item, if any person haue severed the lands, from any house of husbandry, whereby it is made a cottage, a sheep house, a dairy house, or otherwise converted, to any other use, then for a dwelling place, of an husband man.  
Item, by whom the said enclosures and decay were made, and how long ago, and if they were made within the same time, and of what yearly rent and proffites they be,  
Item, who hath now the state of inheritance, and the profits of the same enclosure, and houses decayed, and of whom the lands be holden.  
Item, how many new parks be now made, sithe the said time.  
Item, what arable land, at the time of the making of the said parks, were imparked with the same.  
Item, how many parks within the Shire be enlarged, sith the said time, and how much of the same ground, was then arable and put in tillage.  
Item, how many ploughs, houses, inhabitacions be decayed, by reason of the said new imparkyng.  
Item, if any person hath or doth keep, above the number of two thousand sheep, beside lambs of one yeres age, either in his awne right, or in the name of his wife, child, kinsman, or any other person, and whether he hath kept the same, vpon his awne lands, or vpon his Ferme lands, or otherwise, by covin or fraud, and how long he hath kept them.  
Item, how many sheep ye think haue been necessary, for the onely expenses of such persons, household for one year.  
Item, if any person hath letten, any lands to ferme ▪ by copy of Court Rolie, reserving the sheep pasture of the same to himself, or if any person hath taken, from any other their commons, whereby they be not able to breed and keep their cattle, and maintain their husbandry, as they were in times past.  
Item, if any person hath had or occupied, above the number of two houses, or tenements of husbandry, reckoning in any town, Uillage, Hamlet or Tithyng, and how long they haue occupied the same.  
Item, whether such person, hath taken the same in farm, for term of life, yeres, at will, by Indenture, or copy of Court roll, or otherwise, sithe the feast of the nativity of our lord God, a thousand CCCCC. xlv. And where such person dwelleth.  
Item, if any person, or body politic or corporate, that hath by gift, grant, Lease, or Demise, the scite or precinct, and demeans of any Monastery, Priory, or religious house, dissolved by thact of Parliament, made in the .xxvii. year, of the reign of the king that dead is, do keep an honest continual house and household, in the same scite or precinct: and do occupy yearly, asmuch of the same demeans, in plowyng and tillage of husbandry, as was commonly used, to bee kept by the governors, abbots, or Priors of the same houses, Monasteries, or Priories, or by their Fermer or farmers, occupying the same, within the time of .xx. yeres, next before the making of the same statute.  
Item, that you our said Commissioners, for your better instruccion, take with you copies of al such offices as were found concerning the premises, in the .ix. or tenth yeres, of the reign of our most noble father, king Henry the eight.  
Item, that you cause tappere before you, at all places where you shall sit, for th'execution of this Commission, six persons of every parish, that is to say: two Freholders, two farmers, two copy holders, or tenants at will, if there be so many there dwelling, or else as many as be there dwelling to make presentment by their oaths, of all such things, as bee presentable before you, by virtue of this Commission.  
Item, if any person hath or keepeth, in his occupation, in one town, parish, Lordship, or Hamlet, any more tenements of husbandry then one: And by what title he so hath or keepeth them.  
Item, if any commons or high ways, haue been enclosed or imparked, contrary to right, and without due recompense. That then the same shalbe reformed, by the said Commissioners.  
God save the king.   

Excusum Londini, in aedibus Richardi Graftoni Regij impressoris.  
Mese julii.  
M.D.XLIX.  
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