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 A. D. 1731. Anno quarto Georgii II. C. 26. 65 « the fettling, holding and keeping of a Hop-Market at the laid Workhoufe, and the granting the Tolls ' yearly Rent of fixty Pounds, and fubject to the Power herein before mentioned, will (as there is good ' reafon to believe) greatly increal'e the Income and Revenue of the Poor of the faid City, and prove a of the Poor of the faid City of IVorcefter do, in all humble Manner, befeech your Majcfty that it may be enacted, &e. " A publick Hop-Market to be held by the Guardians of the Workhoufe at Worcejier, with the fole Pro- % &, Ann. c. 8. «' to the Hop-Market, and there publickly fold, Is'c. Mayor, &c. to conftitute the Hop-weigher. " Hop-weigher to give Security. On Miibehaviour may be difplaced. Mayor, &c. abfent, his place " to be fupplied by any of the Chamber. Freemen may weigh in their private Houfes Hops weighed " in the Hop-Market, and fell them. CAP. XXVI. An A<5t that all Proceedings in Courts of Juftice within that Part of Great Britain called England, and in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, lhall be in the Englijh Language. 4 tTTHEREAS many and great Mifchiefs do frequently happen to the Subjects of this King- and Fortunes of the Subjects of that Part of Great Britain called England, more effectually than hereto- tended to Wales fore, from the Peril of being enfnared or brought in danger by Forms and Proceedings in Courts b y 6 Ge0 ' 2l of Juftice, in an unknown Language, Be it enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and c ' 14 " with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, of Gnat Britain in Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That from and after the twenty-fifth After M:i rck Day of March one thouland feven hundred and thirty-three, all Writs, Procefs and Returns thereof,, 7 „ a n p ro - and Proceedings thereon, and all Pleadings, Rules, Orders, Indictments, Informations, Inquifitions, ceedings in Prefentments, Verdicts, Prohibitions, Certificates, and all Patents, Charters, Pardons, Commiffions, {and^or Exclfe- Records, Judgments, Statutes, Recognizances, Bonds, Rolls, Entries, Fines and Recoveries, and all quer'inScotland, Proceedings relating thereunto, and all Proceedings of Courts Leet, Courts Baron and Cuftomary to be inEngiifh, Courts, and all Copies thereof, and all Proceedings whatfoever in any Courts of Juftice within that ^ n d '^ r s at Part of Great Britain called England, and in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, and which concern the 6 Geo.* a. c, 6, Law and Adminiftration of Juftice, (hall be in the EngliJI) Tongue and Language only, and not in Latin or French, or any other Tongue or Language whatfoever, and (hall be written in fuch a common legible Hand and Character, as the Acts of Parliament are ufually ingrafted in, and the Lines and Words of the fame to be written at leaft as clofe as the faid Acts ufually are, and not in any Hand commonly called Court Hand, and in Words at Length and not abbreviated ; any Law, Cuftom or Ufage heretofore to the contrary thereof notwithftanding : And all and every Perfon or Per- Penalt, 0l> fons offending againft this Act, lhall for every fuch Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of fifty Pounds to any Perfon who lhall fue for the fame by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information A 1 ( *^ d b3 J. u , in any of his Majefty's Courts of Record in Weftminjler-Hall, or Court of Exchequer in Scotland r, ., reflectively, wherein no Effoin, Protection or Wager of Law, or more than one Imparlance fhall be allowed. II. And be it further enacted hy the Authority aforefaid, That Miftranflation, Variation in Form Miftranflation by reafon of Tranflation, Mifpelling or Miftake in Clerklhip, or Pleadings or Proceedings begun or to before 35' March be begun before the faid twenty-fifth Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-three, being i733> ma y b = part in Latin and part in EngliJI), fhall be no Error, nor make void any Proceedings by reafon thereof ; ™after d jud S ° ie but that all manner of Miftranllation, Errors in Form, Mifpellings, Miftakes in Clerklhip, may at any ment. " Time be amended, whether in Paper or on Record or otherwife, before or after Judgment, upon Pay- ment of reafonable Cofts only. III. Provided always, That nothing in this Act, nor any thing herein contained, fhall extend to cer- Not to extend to tifying beyond the Seas any Cafe or Proceedings in the Court of Admiralty ; but that in fuch Cafes the p r c "' -^'J"l s - Commiffions and Proceedings may be certified in Latin as formerly they have been. Court'W Admi- 4 IV. And whereas feveral good and profitable Laws have been enacted, to the Intent that the Par- ralty, ' Effect of their Suits, after Iffue tried and Judgment given, by reafon of any fubtile, ignorant or de- declared, That all and every Statute and Statutes for the Reformation and Amending the Delays statutes for re- and Miftakes of the fame and like Nature, when the, Forms are in- Englijh, lhall be deemed, and are Vol. VI. K hereby
 * Aldermen and Citizens of the faid City, out of the faid yearly Rent of fixty Pounds ; and whereas
 * and Profits thereof to the faid Guardians of the Poor of the faid City, and their Succefiors, at the faid'
 * general Benefit and Advantage to the Citizens and Inhabitants thereof:' Therefore the Guardians
 * perty thereof. Chargeable to the Mayor, &c. with the full yearly Rent of 60/. Hops to be brought 3 Oeo. * c - *3-
 * VV dom, from the Proceedings in Courts of Juftice being in an unknown Language, thofe who
 * are fummoned and impleaded having no Knowledge or Underftanding of what is alledged for or
 * againft them in the Pleadings, of their Lawyers and Attornies, who ute a Character not legible to
 * any but Perfons practifing the Law:' To remedy thefe great Mifchiefs, and to protect the Lives T ],; s a& ex>
 * ties in all manner of Actions and Demands might not be delayed and hindred from obtaining the
 * fective Pleadings, nor for any Defect in Form, commonly called Jeofails ' It is hereby enacted and