Item, every person having converted any house or habitation unto any other use shall before Michaelmas next coming revert to the use of habitation as it was before, and the same shall let to any which that require upon the accustomed rent, and every person forthwith shall for every house of habitation, decayed site of habitation, and for every house of habitation converted to other use during the time of his possession, maintain and keep the King's watch and other common charges of the town in like manner as hath been heretofore of them used. Item, whereas there is a great number of acres, lately belonging to certain gilds there, it is ordered that the same shall be divided to the inhabitants thereof in this manner; that is to say, to every ploughland 5 acres, and to every cottage or artificer there dwelling, or which hereafter upon the houses to be new builded shall dwell, one acre; and if the number do not extend, then every ploughland 4, and so for lack of that rate every ploughland 3; and the residue of the said acres falling after that rate to be divided amongst the cottages, paying for every of the said acres 3s. 4d. and above. Item, also whereas there be certain groves of wood destroyed and turned to pasture in the same town, every such grove being so altered shall be by the owner thereof again (having been so altered within this 20 years before Michaelmas next coming) enclosed and preserved for wood, saving so much of the same to be reserved for a high way for the owner as in those cases the like is there used, the same high way to be severed by hedge from the rest of the grove; and where the groves be so destroyed that there remaineth no hope of growth, the owner thereof shall before the next season following meet for the same set it with wood or sow it with acorns or otherwise as the same may best be for growth of wood. Provided nevertheless if any manner person have converted any house of habitation or any site of habitation to his necessary use about his own house, so that the same should be great inconvenience to be reverted to the first and old use, then in that case the owner shall be discharged if he for every such habitation so altered do build a like house in some other convenient like place, and the same to use to all purposes as before is said of the like. The bailiffs be commanded to bring their grant by charter to the Lord Protector at All Hallow tide next coming. For the observation of which orders the bailiffs and others of that town be bound in recognisance before the said Protector and Council. Henry Frear } Have acknowledged and each of them has Thomas Trecy } acknowledged that they owe to the Lord John Clark } the King by themselves 100l. sterling. Upon condition to perform the articles above mentioned. [Footnote 263: For Somersets popular agrarian policy, see Pollard, _The Protector Somerset_, and, especially, the introduction to the _Commonwealth of this Realm of England_ (edited by Lamond).]