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 A. D. 151+. Anno &xto Henri ci VIII. C. 14. — 18. 125 CAP. XIV. The Statute of iz Ed. 4. c. 3. for the Payment of Tonnage and Poundage (hall (land good during the Exp. King's Life. C A P. XV. An Aft adnulling fecond Letters Patents during the King's Plcafure, making no Mention of the fir ft Letters Patents. granted to divers of his Servants (for their Service to his Grace done) Lands, Tenements, Fees, ' of their faid former Grants and Patents, contrary to the Intent and Grant of our faid Sovereign Lord ;' Wherefore be it ordained, eftabliflied, and enacted by our faid Sovereign Lord, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament aflembled, and by Authority of the fame, That if any Perfon or Perfons from henceforth do make fuit to the King's Highnefs for any Lands, Tene- What fha'l b« ments, Offices, or any other Things fo by his Grace granted, or hereafter to be granted to any Perfon or exprefled in the Pcrfons during his Plcafure, the laid firft Patentee then being in Life, that he do exprefs in his faid Bill of ?* nB ' L " tcr5 Petition or Patent the Tenor of the faid former Patent, and that the King then hath determined his Plea- L an< j. oSc« fure againft the faid firft Patentee ; (4) or elfe the fecond Letters Patents of any of the Premiffes to any & c . before Perfon hereafter to be granted, to be void and of none Effects granted to feme II. This AcT: to commence and take Effedt from the Fourth Day of April next coming, and not before, other. CAP. XVI. An Act that no Knights of Shires nor Burgeffes depart before the End of the Parliament. ' P as well touching the Pleafure, Weal, and Surety of our Sovereign Lord the King, as the Common ' rities, depart, and go home into their Countries, whereby the faid great and weighty Matters are many. ' Times greatly delayed :' (3) In Confideration whereof be it enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by Autho- rity of the fame, That from henceforth none of the faid Knights, Citizens, Burgeffes, and Barons, nor. any of them that hereafter fhall be elected to come or be in any Parliament, do not depart from the faid Parliament, nor abfent himfelf from the fame, till the faid Parliament be fully finifhed, ended, or prorogued, except he or they fo departing have Licence of the Speaker and Commons in the faid Parliament affembled, and the lame Licence be entered of Record in the Book of the Clerk of the Parliament, appointed or to be appointed for the Commons Houfe, upon Pain to every of them fo departing or abfenting thcmfelves in any other Manner, to lofe all thofe Sums of Money which he or they fhould or ought to have had for his or. their Wages ; (4) and that all the Counties, Cities, and Boroughs whereof any fuch Perfon fhall be elected, and the Inhabitants of the fame, fhall be clearly difcharged of all the faid Wages againft the faid Perfon and Perlons, and their Executors for evermore. CAP. XVII. The River of Canterbury, fhall be deepned and enhanced, fo that Lighters, tsY. may pafs upon it. p r, CAP. XVIII. The Under-fheriff, and all other Officers of Sheriffs, may continue and occupy their Offices within the p p,. County of the Town of Br Iftol, from Year to Year, in fuch Sort as the like do in London, without any Forfeiture, notwithstanding the Statutes of 43 E. 3. c. 9. & 23 H. 6. c. S. Statutes made at Weft minder, Anno 7 Hen. VIII,. «W Anno Dom.. of England, and of France, and Lord of Ireland, at his Parlium-nt holden at Wejlminjlcr the. "*■ Twelfth Day of November, in the Seventh Year of his moft noble Reign, to the Honour of God, 4 Spiritual
 * TpHE King's Highnefs of his Goodnefs calling to his Remembrance, that where his Grace hath
 * Offices, and other Things, to have to them during his Plealure ; (2) and after other Pcrfons, by their 1 Leoo. 3x1.
 * fundry Suits, have obtained of his Hi.hnefs other Letters Patents of the fame, not advertifing his Grace % Leon. ii,
 * of his former Giants, whereby the (aid former Patentees have been avoided, and put from the Advantage 2 +7-
 * J7 Orafmuch as commonly in the End of every Parliament divers and many great and weighty Matters,
 * Weal of this his Realm and Subjects, are to be treated, communed of, and by Authority of Parliament:
 * to be concluded ; (2) fo it is, that divers Knights of Shires, Citizens for Cities, Burgeffes for Boroughs,
 * and Barons of the Cinque Ports, long Time before the End of the faid Parliament, of their own Autho-
 * ATH^HE King our Sovereign Lord Henry the Eighth after the Conqueft, by the Grace of God, King
 * and of holy Church, and. for the Common Weal and Profit of this bis Realm, by the Affent of the Lords •