Kent within our Kingdom of Groat Britain Yielding Rendering and paying therefore yearly and every year forever unto us our Heirs and Successors at our Custom House in our ciiy of N w ,i ork unto «>ur or tin ir Collector ot Receiver General there for the time, being in the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary commonly called Lady Day-- the Yearly Rent of two shillings and sixpence for each hundred Acres of the above Granted Lands and so in proportion for any Lesser Quantity thereof (the Land allowed for Highways only excepted) in Lieu and stead of all other Rents Services Dues Duties and Demands whatsoever for the above Granted Lands Mines Minerals Tenements Hereditaments and premises or any part thereof, Provided always and upon Condition that if our said Grantees their Heirs and Assigns or one of them shall not within three years next ensuing the date hereof Plant Settle and effectually Cultivate at least three Acres of every fifty Acres of such of the above Granted Lands as are Capable of Cultivation or if our said Grantees their Heirs or Assigns or any other person or per- 8ous by their or either of their privity Consent or procurement shall set on fire or Burn the Woods on the said Lands or any part thereof (so as to destroy impair or hinder the Growth of any of the Trees there that are or may be fit for Masts Planks Knees or other things fit for the use of our Royal Navy that then and in either of these Cases this our present Grant and every thing therein Contained shall cease and be void anything hereinbefore Contained to the Contrary notwithstanding Declaring nevertheless that nothing in these presents Reserved or Contained shall or ought to be Construed to extend or be intended to prohibit or in any wise hinder our said Grantees their Heirs or Assigns or either of them from such Burning of the Woods or Cutting down or falling of the Trees that are or shall be Growing or being on the above Granted Lands or any part thereof as shall be necessary or Conducive to the Cleauing and effectual Cultivating the same Lands or any part thereof or to or for their own use or uses And we do hereby further Declare that by the said Burning of the Woods is only meant and intended that our said Grantees their Heirs and Assigns are to be restrained only from setting fire to and burning any Timber or Trees while they are standing and Growing upon the above granted Lands or any part thereof And we do likewise Declare that the Reservation of all Trees of the Diameter of twenty-four inches and upwards at twelve inches from the Ground for Masts for our Royal Navy and of such other Trees as may be fit to make Planks Knees and other things necessary for the use of our said Royal Navy is not, ought not, to be Construed to hinder our said Grantees or either of them their or either of their Heirs or Assigns from Clearing or effectually Cultivating the above granted Lands or any part thereof And we do moreover of our Especial Grace Certain Knowledge and nicer motion Consent and Agree that this our present Grant being entered on Record as is hereinafter particularly expressed shall be good and effectual in the Law to all intents Constructions and purposes against us our Heirs and Successors notwithstanding any misreciting misbounding misnaming or other Imperfection Omission of or in anywise Concerning the above Granted or intended to be herein Granted Lands Tenements Hereditaments Mines Minerals and Premises or any part thereof in Testimony whereof We have caused these our Letters to be made Patent and the Great Seal of our said Province to be hereunto affixed and the same to be entered on Record in our Secretary's Office in one of the Books of Patents there remaining Witness our said Trusty and Well beloved