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 A. D. tyor. Anno primo Ann^ Reginas. Stat. i. C. 9: 91 fion of Delegacy or Review, for any Matters Ecclefiaftical, Teftamentary, or Maritime, or any Procefs thereupon, fnali be determined, abated, or difcontinued by the Demife or the faid late King, but all and every fuch Writ, Commiffion, Procefs, and Proceedings, fhall be and are hereby revived and continued, butbe continued j and fliall be in full Force and Virtue, and fliall and may be proceeded upon as if his late Majefty were living ; nor hereafter by the Demife of her prefent Majefty, or any King or Qiieen of this Realm, fhall nor hereafter by any CommilTion of Affize, Oyer and Terminer, general Gaol Delivery, or of AiTociation, Writ of Admit- h" Majefty's tance. Writ of Si non omnes. Writ of Affiftance, or Commiflion of the Peace, be determined ; but every "' ' fuch Commiflion and Writ fliall be and continue in full Force and Virtue, for the Space of fix Months butbe in Force next enfuing, notwithftanding any fuch Demife, unlefs fuperfeded and determined by her Majefty, her forCxMonths. Heirs or SuccelTors : And alfo no Original Writ, "Writ oi Niji prius, Commiflion, Procefs, or Proceed- ings virhatfoever, in or ifluing out of any Court of Equity, nor any Procefs or Proceeding upon any Of- fice or InquiHtion, nor any Writ of Certiorari or Habeas Corpus in any Matter or Caufe, either Criminal or Civil, nor any Writ of Attachment, or Procefs for Contempt, nor any Commiflion ofDeligacy or Review, for any Matters Ecclefiaftical, Teftamentary, or Maritime, or any Procefs thereupon, Ihall be determined, abated, or difcontinued, by the Demife of her Majefty, or any King or Queen of this Realm j but every fuch Writ, CommilTion, Procefs, and Proceeding, fhall remain in full Force and Virtue, to be proceeded upon, as if her Majefty, or fuch other King or Queen had lived, notwithftanding any fuch Death or Demife. VI. And be it further en afted. That all and fingular the Provifions, Claufes, Matters and Things what- Aft to extend to foever contained in this Aft, and in that Part of the ASk made in the feventh Year of the Reign Ireland, Jerfcy, of the late King, which is recited in this prefent Aft, fhall extend, and be conftrued to extend to ^""J Guernfey, the Kingdom oi Ireland, to the Illands oijerfey zwA. Guernfey, and to all her Majefty's Dominions in ^'^' America and elfewhere. VII. And be it further enafted and declared by the Authority aforefaid. That this prefent Aft, and a"^ to commence all other Afts to which the Royal Afl'ent fhall be given after the eighth Day of Adarch one thoufand ^'""^ ^ '^"'^'^ feven hundred and one, and before the End of this prefent Seflion of Parliament, fhall commence and '^°'' begin, and be taken, conftrued and adjudged in Law, to commence and begin upon the faid eighth Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and one, unlefs in fuch Afts fome other Time for Com- mencement thereof be fpecially limited and appointed. CAP. IX. An Aft for continuing the Aft made in the eighth Year of his late Majefty's Reign, for better preventing the counterfeiting the Current Coin of this Kingdom. ' the five and twentieth Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and one, and from thence to the End ' ing the counterfeiting the Current Coin of this Kingdom by fuch Tools and Inftruments as are therein of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this Parliament affembled, and by the Au- thority of the fame. That the faid Aft made in the eighth Year of his late Majefty's Reign, and every Ar- ' tide and Claufe therein contained, fhall from henceforth continue and be in Force until the five and """"='"' twentieth Day of March, which fliall be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand leven hundred '^°5' and nine, and from thenceforth unto the End of the firft Seflion of Parliament then next enfuing, and no longer. ' II. And whereas in the aforefaid Aft it is ordained. That no Profecution fhall be made for any Of- fon or Perfons as offend againft the faid Aft, by making or mending, or beginning, or proceeding to Pfof^^ted in fir make or mend any coining Tool or Inftrument therein prohibited, or by marking of Money round the j^°"J"^'*'" Edges with Letters or Grainings, may be commenced at any Time within fix Months after fuch Offence ^ Ann. c. it, committed ; any Thing in the faid Aft to the contrary in any wife notwithftanding. §. z, " ' * tituled. An ASifor appointing Wardens and Affay_ Majiers, for afjhying vjrought Plate in the Cities of York, laW. 3. 0,4, Exeter, Briftol, Chefter, aW Norwich, the faid Cities of York, Exeter, Brijlol, Cheflcr, VinA Norwich, vvere appointed for the aflaying and marking of wrought Plate, and for executing the Powers, Autho- rities, and Direftions given by the faid Aft : And whereas in and by the faid Aft of Parliament it was further enafted. That all and every Goldfmith, Silverfmith, and Plate-worker inhabiting in any Town or Place where an AflTayer is not, or fliall not be appointed, fhall bring all his or their wrought Plate to fome of the faid Cities or Places to be aflayed and marked, upon Penalty of Forfeiture of all fuch Plate or Manufafture of Silver, or the Value thereof, as ftiall be fold or exchanged before the fame be marked and affayed :_ And whereas in the Town oi Newcajile upon Tyne there is, and Time out of Mind hath been, an ancient Company of Goldfmiths, which, with their Families, by the faid Penalty are like to be ruined, and the fajd Trade utterly loft in the faid Town : And whefeas by the Statute of the fecond of N ? Henrv
 * TT 7 H E R E A S an Aft of Parliament made in the eighth Year of his late Majefty's Reign, inti-
 * W tuled. An ASifor the better preventing the counterfeiting the current Coin of this Kingdom, was, by a 8 W. j. c. 26.
 * Claufe in another Aft made in the ninth Year of his faid Majefty's Reign, continued in Force unto 9 w. 3. c. m
 * of the next Seflion of Parliament : And whereas the faid Aft hath been found of good Ufe, for fupprefs-
 * prohibitted :' Be it enafted by the Queen's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent
 * fence againft the faid Aft, unlefs fuch Profecution be commenced within three Months after fuch Of-
 * fence committed ;' Be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That the Profecution of fuch Per- Offenders may be
 * III. And whereas by an Aft of the laft Parliament, in the twelfth Year of his late Majefty's Reign, in-