❧ By the King.  
¶ A Proclamation concerning Assart lands.  
WHereas by our Proclamation given at our Palace of Westminster the xvii. day of February, in the second year of our Reign of Great Britain, France and Ireland, We did publish and make it known to our loving Subjects, that for their Common good and quiet, and for avoiding of chargeable and tedious Suits, we had by our Commission under the great Seal of England, given full power and authority unto certain Commissioners in the said Commission mentioned, for Us, and in our name to bargain, sell and conclude for divers our Messages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments called Assarts, Wastes or Purprestures, which are or were within the limits of some of our Forests, to and with any person or persons, and their heirs in Fee-ferme, or other estate of inheritance, with a discharge of the mean profits, as by our said Proclamation may more at large appear: Whereupon we doubted not but our loving Subjects whom it did concern, and who have been long in possession of the said Lands at very low Rates, would have taken care in time to have provided for their own profit, safety and peace therein. And nevertheless we are of late informed, that hitherto very few of them have appeared before our said Commissioners to compound or conclude for any of our said Messages, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, and was expected, presuming (as it seemeth) that they may take their own times and leisure for it, and in the mean time some others never possessed of the said Messages, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, have in their default offered to compound and conclude with us for the same. Wherein our desire is, that the long and ancient possessors of the said Lands, should herein be preferred before all others.  
These are therefore to signify our further pleasure, That all such as be possessed of any the said Messages, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, and do purpose or think good for their own profit, safety and quiet, to compound or conclude with our said Commissioners for any the said Messages, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments called Assarts, Wastes, or Purprestures, which are or were within the limits of any of our Forests or Chases, shall come in and attend our said Commissioners concerning the same, betwixt this and the first of October, now next ensuing, otherwise in their default we will dispose thereof to others as we shall see cause.  
Given at our Manor of East-Greenwich the xii. day of May, in the third year of our Reign of Great Britain, France and Ireland. 
 Gold save the King.   

❧ Imprinted at London by Robert Baker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty.  
ANNO DOM. 1605.