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A.D. 1535] 18. Provided always, That this Act, nor any Thing therein contained, be in any wise hurtful or prejudicial unto Sir Thomas Englefield, Knight, Justice of the County Palatine of Chester and Flint, nor to his Deputy or Deputies, nor to any of them, of, for or concerning the Office of Justice or Justicer of the said County Palatine and Flint, nor for or concerning any Fees, Profits or Advantages to the same Office in any Manner wise appertaining or belonging; but that the said Sir Thomas, his Deputy and Deputies, and every of them, may lawfully have, occupy and exercise the said Office, and also receive and take to their own Use all manner Profits, Commodities and Advantages to the said Office belonging or appertaining, according to the Tenor, Purport and Effect of such Letters Patents, as before this Time were unto the same Sir Thomas made under the Seal of the said County Palatine, or under any other Seal, by our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is, of, for or concerning the said Office and other the Premises, or any Parcel thereof, in as ample and large manner as though this Act had never been had nor made; any Thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

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"Albeit the Dominion Principality and Country of justly and righteously is, and ever hath been incorporated annexed united and subject to and under the Imperial Crown of this Realm, as a very Member and Joint of the same, whereof the King's most Royal Majesty of Meer Droit, and very Right, is very Head King Lord and Rule; yet notwithstanding, because that in the same Country Principality and Dominion divers Rights Usages Laws and Customs be far discrepant from the Laws and Customs of this Realm, and also because that the People of the same Dominion have and do daily use a Speech nothing like, nor consonant to the natural Mother Tongue used within this Realm, some rude and ignorant People have made Distinction and Diversity between the King's Subjects of this Realm, and his Subjects of the said Dominion and Principality of, whereby great Discord Variance Debate Division Murmur and Sedition hath grown between his said