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 A. D. 1 5-v r. Anno tricefimo tcrtio Hen rici VIII. C. 25 — 27. 321 England, but that t hey may be Jufticcs of Affifes of frefli Force, or of other Affifei In the fame City. Bo* 1 or To n when he or thej do <>i (hall dwell, or were born, as they or any of them before- I • . Prm 1 ' 1 always, That this Act, nor any Thing therein contained, fhall be prejudicial to any Juftice j u o; ct1 c ( y^ nr fuftices of the one Bench or the other, for taking, ! in the one Bench or the other, nor to any Juftice that llull take any Aflilo by or upon Adjounrnmcnt for I the fame. VI, Provided alway, and be it enacted, That any Clerk of A (life during the ordy Time of th • Clerk W for any Aflife or Affiles, or of or for any Nift prius, fhall not be ol ■ • «i:fctrf nny ot the N.ing s Courts ot Kccoru, by Action ot Uebt, LSill, 1'laint, inlormation or othcrwilc. bint no Eflbin, Protection, Wager of Law, or other dilatory Plea, fhall be admitted or allowed. VII. Provided alio, and be it enacted by the Authority aforcfaid, That this Act or any Thing therein con- The juftice?, turned, extend not unto the Jufticcs, Juftice Clerks, or Chik of Aflifcs, within our Sovereign Lord the JoflieeClerl^, King's Duchy and County Palatine of Lancajier, nor to any of them that now be, or hereafter fhall be ; "Pn? ]cTkl ^ ( bid that the lame Jufticcs, Juftice Clerks, and Clerk, and every of them, fhall and may execute their countJof Laa- Ollices, and every of them in fuch Manner and Form as they, or any of them, have ufed to do before caller, the making of this prefent Aft; this Act or any Thing therein contained to the contrary thereof notwilh- ftanding. CAP. XXV. The Children of Thomas Points, Iff/Ham Cajlelin and John Dimmock, born beyond the Sea, fhall be re- puted natural Subjects, and enabled to enjoy Land by Defcent or Purchafe, to fue and be fued. p R - CAP. XXVI. A Repeal of c rtain fraudulent Deeds, Eftatcs, Wills and Conveyances made by Sir John Sheltmi, of Lands in Norfolk and Suffolk, to defeat the King and others of Wardfhip, Primer Seifiii, Relief, tsfc. and he , ' adjudged to die felled of luch Eftate in thole Lands, as he was before the faid Conveyances made. I> R, CAP. XXVII. The Bill for Leafes of Hofpitals, Colleges, and other Corporations. 4 A LBEIT that by the Common Laws of this Realm of England, all Aflcnts, Elections, Grants and Leaks of Hofri- ' ± Leafes had, made and granted by the Dean, Warden, Provoft, Mafter, Prefident, or other Gover- •*}*» ** e°° d ' nor of any Cathedral Church, Hofpital, College or other Corporation by whatfocver Name they be in- Jf^ c ™™ t ' corporate or founded, with the Aflent and Conlent of the more or greater Part of their Chapiter, Fellows i lr t. ' (z) Yet the faid Common Laws notwithstanding, clivers Founders of fuch Deanrics, Hofpitals, Colleges c and Corporations within the laid Realm, have upon the Foundation and Kftablifiir.ier.t of the fame Der.n- ' ries, Hofpitals, Colleges and other Corporations, eftablilhed and made, amongft other their, peculiar A ' local Statutes and Ordinances, that if any one of fuch Corporation, having Power or Authority to aflent ' or difafient, fhould and would deny any fuch Grant or Grants, that then no fuch Leafe, Election or ' Grant fhould be had, granted or leafed; and for the Performance of the fame, every Perion having ' Power of Aflent to the fame, have been and be daily thereunto fworn, and fo the Refidue may not pro- ' ceed to the Perfection of fuch Elections, Grants and Leafes, according to the Courfe of the Common ' Laws of this Realm, unlefs they fhould incur the Danger of Perjury:' (3) For the avoiding whereof, Hnd for the due Execution of the Common Law univerfally within this Realm, and every Place, in one Conformity of Reafon to be ufed ; be it ordained, eftablifhed and enacted, by the Authority of this prefent Parliament, That all and every peculiar Act, Order, Rule and Eftatute heretofore made or hereafter to be r n Coram made by any Founder or Founders of any Hofpital, College, Deanry or other Corporation, at or upon none lh-.ll hzy the Foundation of any fuch Hofpital, College, Deanry or Corporation, whereby the Grant, Leafe, Gift or » negative Voice. Election of the Governor or Ruler of fuch Hofpital, College, Deanry or other Corporation, with the Aflent of the more Part of fuch of the fame Hofpital, College, Deanry or Corporation, as have or fhall have Voice of Aflent to the fame, at the Time of fuch Grant, Leafe, Gift, or Election hereafter to be made, fhould be in any wife hindred or let by any one or mo, being the leffer Number of fuch Corporation, contrary to the Form, Order and Courfe of the Common Law of this Realm of England, fhall be from henceforth clearly fruftrate, void and of none Effect; (4) and that all Oaths heretofore taken by any, n0 ..., Perfon or Perfons of fuch Hofpital, College, Deanry and other Corporation, fhall be, for and concerning „o; be cr the Obfervance of any fuch Order, Eftatute or Pvule, deemed void and of none Effect; (5) and that whi Tt
 * have been, to all Intents and Purpofcs ; any Thing in this Act contajncl to the oootrvf
 * or Brethren of fuch Corporation, having Voices of Aflent thereunto, be as good and effectual in the Law Dyer 54-.
 * to the Grantees and Leflees of the fame, as if the Refidue or the whole Number of fuch Chapiter, Fel- 1 1 H. -■ .-. ;.
 * lows and Brethren of fuch Corporation, having Voices of Aflent, had thereunto contented and agreed :