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 3+8 C. 25> 26. Anno xxxiv & xxxv Hen rici VIII. A. D. 1542-3! The' Remedy to recover the Rent of x. li. if it be behind. A Remedy for the Rent if the Land comes to the King's Hands. A Remedy for the Wardens of the Land recovered by Covin. A Saving of the Right p r, of others. The Inhabitants of the County of Cambridge difcharged of the Knights Wages. CAP. XXV. It fhall be lawful to the Mayor, Burgeffes and Inhabitants of Pool in the County of Dorfet, and to their Suc- ceffors, to erect a Windmill in the King's Wafte Ground and Common, in the Town of Baiter; (2) and a Conduit-head in a Place called Totnam, and to have 16 Foot fquare for the Conduit-head; and to dig and draw in, by, through and upon all Places meet and convenient; in, to and from the fame, &c. p Ro yielding yearly to the King and his Heirs,. &c. one Pepper-corn. CAP. XXVI. An Act for certain Ordinances in the King's Dominion and Principality of Wales. Laws fpecially ^UR Sovereign Lord the King's Majefty, of his tender Zeal and Affection that he beareth towards his ihall be made in ^_J» loving and obedient Subjects of his Dominion, Principality and Country of Wales, for good Rule and nffi " by J he Order to be from henceforth kept and maintained within the fame, whereby his faid Subjects may grow and 10 Ed" 1. of 6 ' ar 'f e to more Wealth and Profperity, hath devifed and made divers fundry good and neceffary Ordinances, Ruthe'lan'd. which his Majefty of his moft abundant Goodnefs, at the humble Suit and Petition of his faid Subjects of Stat. Wall'ia Wales, is pleafed and contented to be enacted by the Affent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the jzEJ.i. Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, in Manner and Form as £</. 3. c. a. as hereafter enfueth. II. Firft, That his Grace's faid Dominion, Principality, and Country of Wales, be from henceforth di- Wales divided vided into twelve Shires; (2) of the which eight have beenShires of long and ancient Time, That is to fay, sh'° twslve The Shires of Glamorgan, Caermarthen, Pembroke, Cardigan, Flint, Caernarvan, Anglefey and Merioneth ; st'h.S. c. 26. (3) an ^ ^ our °f t ' ne ^ a '^ twelve Shires be newly made and ordained to be Shires, by an Ait made at the Par- liament holden at Weflminjler in the twenty-feventh Year of our faid Sovereign Lord's moft noble Reign, that is to fay, The Shires of Radnor, Brecknock, Mountgomery and Denbigh, over and befides the Shire of Monmouth, and divers other Dominions, Lordfhips and Manors in the Marches of Wales, united and an- nexed to the Shires of Salop, Hereford and Glocefter, as by the faid late Act more plainly appeareth. Limitation of III. Item, That the Limitations of the Hundreds, of late made within the faid Shires by Virtue of his Hundreds by Grace's Commiffions directed out of his Highnefs Court of Chancery, and again returned into the fame, Commiffion. fhall ftand in full Strength, Force and Effect, according to the faid Limitation ; except fuch of the fame as fith that Time hath been altered or changed by Virtue of any Act or Acts of Parliament already made, 01 that fhall; be altered or changed by any Act or Acts in this prefent Seflion to be made. Prefident and IV. Item, That there fhall be and remain a Prefident and Council in the faid Dominion and Principality Council. of Wales, and the Marches of the fame, with all Officers, Clerks and Incidents to the fame, in Manner Repealed by and Form as hath been heretofore ufed and accuftomed ; (2) which Prefident and Council fhall have Power 1 W. & M. feff. an( j Authority to hear and determine, by their Wifdoms and Difcretions, fuch Caufes and Matters as j.c 27. §. 2. be or hereafter fliall be affigned to them by the King's Majefty, as heretofore hath been accuftomed and ufed. Seffions of Wales V. Item, That there fhall be holden and kept Seffions twice in every Year, in every of the faid Shires in twice in a Year, the faid Dominion and Principality of Wales, 'that is to fay, in the Shires of Glamorgan, Brecknock, Radnor, Caermarthen, Pembroke, Cardigan, Montgomery, Denbigh, Flint, Caernarvan, Merioneth and Anglefey ; the which Seffions fhall be called the King's great Seffions in Wales. ^ Tuftice of Che- VI. Item, That the Juftice of Chefter for the Time being fhall hold and keep Seffions twice in every Year, ikr. in the Shires of Denbigh, Flint and Montgomery, and have nothing but his old Fee of an hundred Pounds yearly for the fame. Juftice of North VII. Item, That the Juftices of North Wales fhall in likewife hold and keep Seffions twice every Year, Wales. in every of the faid Shires of Caernarvan, Merioneth and Anglefey, and fhall have yearly of the King's Ma- jefty a yearly Fee of fifty Pounds for the fame. juflice of Rad- VIII. Item, That one Perfon learned in the Laws, of this Realm of England, by the King's Majefty to be nor, &c. named and appointed, fhall be Juftice of the Shires of Radnor, Brecknock and Glamorgan, and fhall in like- wife hold and keep Seffions twice in every Year, in every of the fame Shires, and fhall have yearly of the King's Majefty fifty Pounds for his Fee. Juftice of Caer- IX. Item, That one other Perfon learned in the Laws of this Realm, to be appointed as is aforefaid, marthen. fhall be Juftice of the Shires of Caermarthen, Pembroke and Cardigan, and fliall in likewife hold and keep Seffions twice in every Year, in every of the fame Shires, and fhall alfo have yearly, of die King's Majefty fifty Pounds for his Fee. Patents under X. Item, The faid Perfons or Juftices, and every of them now being, or that hereafter fhall be, fhall ihe Great Seal, have feveral Letters Patents and Commiflions for their Offices, under the King's Seal of England, to be ex- ercifed by themfelves or their fufficient Deputies, according to the Purpofes and Intents in thefe Ordinances fpecified. Commiffions al- XI. Provided always, That their Commiffions to them already granted under the faid Great Seal,, fhall ready grantea, to ftand in Force and Effect according. to the Tenor of the fame, unlefs it fhall pleafe the King's Majefty ftand i n F° rce - "hereafter to alter or change them or any of them; this prefent Article laft before exprelfed in any wifenot- withftanding. Of what Things XII. Item, That every of the faid Juftices, within the Limits of their Commiffions and Authorities to ins Judges in a thei»