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 THE STATUTES at Large, &c.

"EDWARD by the Grace of God King of England and of France, and Lord of Ireland, the Fourth after the Conquest, to the Honour of God and of holy Church, to nourish Peace, Unity, and Concord within his Realm of England (which he much desireth) wholly, by the Advice and Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the same Realm, and at the special Request of the Commons of his said Realm assembled, at his First Parliament holden at Westminster upon the Fourth Day of November, in the First Year of his Reign, by Authority of the same Parliament, hath ordained and established certain Statutes, Declarations, and Ordinances, in Manner and Form following."