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and to give them in charge to inquire and find out all and every the particulars of these instructions, and to cause such juries, when and as often as you shall judge it necessary, to view and tread the meets and bounds of the premisses, and to forme all such other matters and things as are perfectly inquirable in courts of survey, as you shall give the same in charge unto them.
You are, by the like waies and meanes, to inquire of and find out the true yearly value of the premisses, and of every of them, as the same were lett for, or worth to be lett, in the year 1640, or at any time before; and also what part of the premisses are chargeable with any pious and charitable use or uses; and also to inquire of and survey, or cause to bee surveyed, the buildings, houses, edifices, timber, woods, open quarries, or mines, upon the premisses, and to make true and particular returns of the same in your bookes of survey.
You are to call before you all such persons as now are, or formerly have been, stewards, bayliifs, reeves, or collectors of rents, issues, revenues, or profits of the premises, or any part thereof; and likewise all such persons as now are, or formerly have been, tenants of the premisses, or any part thereof, and also such other persons as you conceive may best know the premisses, or any of them, or as many of the said persons as you can conveniently summon to appear before you, and to examine them upon oath concerning the meets and bounds of the premisses, and concerning the rents, issues, profits, valuations, royalties, perquisits of courts, tythes, or impropriations, rights, titles, and other emoluments unto the premisses, or any of them, belonging or appertaining, or held, or enjoyed with the same, as parte, parcell, or member thereof, or appendant to the same, together with their and every of their particular values, which you are distinctly to returne in your bookes of survey as aforesaid.
You are further strictly to inquire and examine as aforesaid what court-rolls, rentalls, bookes of survey, books of accompts, or what other records, evidences, or writings touching every the premises, or any part of them, any of the said persons have come to the knowledge of; and where and in whose custody the same do remayne; which said court-rolls, rentalls, bookes of accompt, or other records, evidences, and writings, you are to demand and receive into your custody.
In returning your survey of any honors, mannors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, belonging to the Crown, or to archbishops, bishops, deans, deans and chapters, or other officers belonging to that hierarchy, you are particularly to inquire, by your waies and meanes aforesaid, what leases are in being of any part of the said last-mentioned premisses, when the same did respectively commence, for what terme granted, to whom the same were so granted, what rents and other duties were reserved thereupon, who are the present tenants of such lands so granted, and in whose right they hold the same, and when and from whom such right is or hath been made over unto them, or unto the persons for or from whom they hold the same respectively.
In case you find variance in the evidence which shall be given, touching the extent or valuation of the premisses, or any part of them, or any other particular given in charge, and if the said variation or diiference bee considerable, or if you conceive the evidence to differ from truth to the prejudice of the Commonwealth, or any other person, you are in those cases, as well
