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A.D. 1441-2] of the same King the Grandfather, was called and named of Record Traitor to the said King the Grandfather, as well by Statute as by the Letters Patents of the said King the Grandfather; and for the horribility of his so many Treasons, it was ordained by Statute in the same Parliament that no English Man married to any Welsh Woman of the Amity and Alliance of the said Owen, Traitor to the King, should be put in Office in, nor in the Marches; and also considering how the said Owen and his Adherents were excepted in many general Graces and Pardons granted by the said King the Grandfather to his liege People at divers Times, because of the Insurrections Rebellions and horrible Treasons aforesaid; For the Weal of all the Realm, and for the Repression of all such horrible Treasons from henceforth to be compassed of the Assent of the Lords and Commons aforesaid. It is ordained and established, by the Authority of this present Parliament, That all manner of Indictments, Inquisitions, Processes, Records, Judgements, Ordinances and Statutes made and expressed, taken, had, pursued or declared against the said Owen, be affirmed, authorised and stablished for Law by Authority of this present Parliament, and by the same Authority shall be effectual and sufficient in the Law for to bind and conclude for ever, all that be Heirs or of the Blood of the said Owen, notwithstanding any Default or Misprision had in this Party; or any Error in Writing or in leaving out of the Name or Place or the Indorsement of the said Commission, or of Negligence adding or leaving out more or less than behoveth, or any other Default in the said Indictments, Inquisitions, Records or Judgements notwithstanding: so that this present Ordinance be not prejudicial to any of the Heirs or of the Blood of the said Owen, as to any Lands in Tail.

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Item, forasmuch as at the grievous complaint made to the King by the Commons in the Counties of Hereford, Gloucester, and of Shropshire, which Counties be adjoining to the Marches of, and in the Counties of Somerset Chester and Bristol, it was shewed to the same our Sovereign Lord the King, that whereas another time, in Time of the noble King Henry, Grandfather to our Sovereign