appeal in the name either of lords of manors, or privileges of towns
or corporations, who shall be either damaged or encroached upon by
the said work. All appeals to be heard and determined immediately
by the said Lord Chancellor, or commission from him, that the work
may receive no interruption.

This commission shall give power to the said fifteen to press
waggons, carts, and horses, oxen and men, and detain them to work a
certain limited time, and within certain limited space of miles from
their own dwellings, and at a certain rate of payment. No men,
horses, or carts to be pressed against their consent during the
times of hay-time or harvest, or upon market-days, if the person
aggrieved will make affidavit he is obliged to be with his horses or
carts at the said markets.

It is well known to all who have any knowledge of the condition the
highways in England now lie in that in most places there is a
convenient distance land left open for travelling, either for
driving of cattle, or marching of troops of horse, with perhaps as
few lanes or defiles as in any countries. The cross-roads, which
are generally narrow, are yet broad enough in most places for two
carriages to pass; but, on the other hand, we have on most of the
highroads a great deal, if waste land thrown in (as it were, for an
overplus to the highway), which, though it be used of course by
cattle and travellers on occasion, is indeed no benefit at all
either to the traveller as a road or to the poor as a common, or to
the lord of the manor as a waste; upon it grows neither timber nor
grass, in any quantity answerable to the land, but, though to no
purpose, is trodden down, poached, and overrun by drifts of cattle
in the winter, or spoiled with the dust in the summer. And this I