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 A. D. 1640. Anno decimo ſexto CAROLI I. C. 2.--6. CA P. II. An Act for the Relief of his Majeſty's Army, and the Northern Parts of the Kingdom. EXP. CA P. III. An Act for the reforming of fome Things miftaken in the late Act made this preſent Parliament for the Taxes. granting of four Subfidies, intituled, An Act for the Relief of his Majeſty's Army, and the Northern Parts of this Kingdom, and to make good the Acts of the Commiſſioners and other Officers by them autho- rized or appointed, and to be authorized or appointed. EXP. CA P. IV. An Act for the further Relief of his Majeſty's Army, and the Northern Parts of the King dom. EXP. 131 (II.) ND be it enacted by the Authority aforeſaid, That the Paffing of this preſent Act or of any Divers Statutes of Parliament, fhall not be any Determination of the ſaid Seffion; and that all Statutes and Acts of Par- liament which have their Continuance, or were by an Act of Parliament made in the third Year of the 3 Car. r. c. 4. Reign of his Majefty that now is, intituled, An Act for the Continuance and Repeal of divers Statutes, con- continued fure tinued until the End of the firſt Seffion of the then next Parliament, fhall by Virtue of this Act be ad- ther. judged ever fince the Seffion of Parliament in the ſaid third Year, to have been of fuch Force and Effect as the fame were the laft Day of that Seffion, and from thenceforth until fome other Act of Parliament be made touching the Continuance or Diſcontinuance of the ſaid Statutes and Acts in the ſaid Act of the third Year of his Majeſty's Reign continued as aforeſaid. CAP. V. An Act for the better Raifing and Levying of Mariners, Sailors and others, for the preſent guarding of the Seas, and neceffary Defence of the Realm. EXP. CA P. VI. An Act concerning the Limitation and Abbreviation of Michaelmas Term. HER fo Inconvenience foon after the Feaſt of St. Michael, that it is generally found to be very inconvenient to his Majeſty's of Michaelmas of St. Michael the Archangel, and the keeping of their Leets, Law-Days and Court-Barons, which Feaſt of St. Mi- they can by no Means attend in regard of the Neceſſity of their coming to the ſaid Term ſo ſpeedily chael. after the Feaſt of St. Michael the Archangel, to appear upon Juries, and to follow their Cauſes and 2 Roll 443. Suits in the Law; the fame Time being the chief Time of all the Year for the Sowing of Land with Winter Corn, and for the diſpoſing and ſetting in Order of all their Winter Huſbandry and Busineſs, and for the receiving and paying of Rents; and in many Parts of this Kingdom Harveſt is ſeldom or never inned till three Weeks after the ſaid Feaſt:' II. Therefore the King's moft excellent Majefty, out of the Princely Care that he hath of all his Spd. Rem. 71 loving Subjects, having a ſpecial Care to the Increaſe and Continuance of their Wealth and good Eſtates, by the Aſſent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this preſent Parliament aſſembled, and by the Authority of the fame, ordaineth, enacted and eſtabliſheth, That in the ſaid Michael- mas Term there fhall be fix common Days of Return only, and not above; that is to fay, (2) the firſt Day of the Return thereof fhall be and be called A die Sancti Michaelis in tres Septimanas; (3) the fe- In Michael.as cond Day of Return of the fame Term fhall be and be called A die Santti Machaelis in unum ſem; fix common (4) the third Day of Return of the fame Term fhall be and be called In Craftino Animarum; (5) the Days of Return fourth Day of Return of the fame Term fhall be and be called In Craftino Sancti Martini; (6) the fifth only. Day of Return of the fame Terim fhall be and be called In Oftabis Sancti Martini; (7) and the ſixth Day of Return of the ſaid Tenn fhall be and be called A die Sancti Martini in quindecim dies: Term be ſeived. III. And that the fame Days of Return fhall be obſerved in all the High Courts of Record of our So- vereign Lord the King, his Heirs and Succeffors, hereafter to be holden at Weftminfier, or other Place or Places at the Affignment or Appointment of our Sovereign Lord the King, his Heirs and Succeffors: (2) The Return- And that from and after the Feaſt of St. Michael the Archangel next coming there fhall not be nor be pays to be be called any Days of Return in 'Octabis Sancti Michaelis, nor A die Sancti Michaelis in quindecim dies,' nor either of them: (3) And that the ſaid Term of St. Michael yearly for ever, from and after the ſaid Feaſt of St. Michael the Archangel next coming, begin in and upon the ſaid Tres ſeptimanas Sancti Michaelis,' whenfoever it fhall happen to fall (except it be on the Lord's Day commonly called Sunday, and then on the Morrow next after) for the keeping of the Effoins, Profers, Returns and other Ceremo- nies heretofore uſed and kept, in like Manner and Form as hath been uſed to be done in the Day of the Two Return- Return, commonly called Octabis Sancti Michaelis: (4) And that the full Term of St. Michael fhall Days taken yearly away. 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 * Subjects, both Nobles and others, as well for the keeping of the Quarter-Seffions next after the Feaſt Term being fo