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force, from whoſe hands flows the ſource of our riches, we receive under the protection of national law and government, from the motives of juſtice, humanity, chriſtianity, and our own intereſt well underſtood; enacting, that whatever liberties, grants, and conventions, between the propritors and villagers, either individually or collectively, may be allowed in future, and entered authentically into; ſuch agreements, according to their true meaning, ſhall import mutual and reciprocal obligations, binding not only the preſent contracting parties, but even their ſucceſſors by inheritance or acquiſition—ſo far that it ſhall not be in the power of either party to alter at pleaſure ſuch contracts importing grants on one ſide, and voluntary promiſe of duties, labour, or payments, on the other, according to the manner and conditions therein expreſſed, whether they
