Somerset, in the parts near adjoining unto the Water called the Water of Severn between England and South Wales, and after such murders and felonies done the said robbers felons and murderers with the said goods so robbed and stolen make their conveyance with the said goods so stolen by night at divers passages or ferries over the said river or water, as the passages of Auste, Fremeland, Pyrton, Arlyngham, Nowenham, Portsedes Point, and all such other like passages over the said river in to South Wales, or into the forest called the Forest of Dean also adjoining to the same water, and when they be over the said water then the goods so stolen be by divers privileges there kept, albeit the Owner and Owners have true and perfect knowledge thereof yet they so robbed and spoiled be without remedy for to obtain their said goods so stolen, and so that the secret and sudden conveyance by night of the said goods over the said ferries and passages doth not only greatly encourage divers persons to come out of the parts of South Wales to steal rob and murder divers persons in their houses in the said counties joining upon the said borders of Wales, but also causeth many robberies and felonies in sundry ways to be committed and done upon the said border near adjoining to the same river, to the great damage and hurt of the King's Subjects inhabiting there unless some remedy therefore be provided: It may therefore please the King our Sovereign Lord and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present parliament assembled and by the authority of the same, to enact that every person or persons taking upon him or them to have and keep any of the said passages or any other passage upon Severn aforesaid, from henceforth do not convey neither carry with any manner barge boat or other vessel any person or persons with horses, mares, oxen, kine, or any other cattle, nor no other person or persons before the time of the sun rising in the morning, and after the time of the sun being gone down at night; upon pain of imprisonment and fine to be set on him that shall so convey or carry over any of the said passages over the said river of Severn out of England in to Wales or the Forest of Dean, or out of Wales or the said Forest of Dean into England unless the said passengers and every of them have good knowledge of such person and persons and of their dwelling places, and upon request to them made by any person or persons do disclose the name and the dwelling place of every such person or persons so by them conveyed over the said water, to any such person or persons requiring
