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A.D. 1535] within the Compass or Precinct of the said Lordships Townships Commotes and Cantreds, or any of them, in whose Possession soever they be or shall be, and every Part thereof, shall stand and be for ever, from the said Feast of All-Saints, guildable, and shall be reputed accepted named and taken as Parts and Members of the said County or Shire of Denbigh; and that the said Town of Denbigh shall be named accepted reputed used had and taken Head and Shire-town of the County or Shire of Denbigh; and that the County or Shire-court of and for the said County or Shire of Denbigh, shall be holden and kept the first Time at the said Town of Denbigh, and the next Time at the Town of Wrixham in the said Shire or County, and so to be kept in the same two Towns alternis vicibus for ever, and in none other Place.

9. "And forasmuch as the Counties and Shires of Brecknock, Radnor, Mountgomery, and Denbigh be far distant from the City of London, where the Laws of England be commonly used ministered exercised and executed; and for that the Inhabitants of the said Shires of Brecknock, Radnor, Mountgomery, and Denbigh be not of Substance Power and Ability to travel out of their Countries to seek the Administration of Justice"; It is therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the King our Sovereign Lord shall have one Chancery and Exchequer at his Castle of Brecknock, and one other at his Town and Castle of Denbigh; and that the Sheriff's Escheators and other Officers Accomptants of the Counties of Brecknock, Radnor, Mountgomery, and Denbigh, from and after the said Feast of All-Saints, shall be yearly appointed by our Sovereign Lord the King, for and within every of the said Shires of Brecknock, Radnor, Mountgomery, and Denbigh; and that the Sheriffs Escheators and other Officers Accomptants of the Counties of Brecknock and Radnor, from and after the said Feast of All-Saints, shall yearly make their Accompts before the King's Auditors, and such Chamberlain or Baron of the said Exchequer, as shall be thereunto appointed by our said Sovereign Lord the King, in such like Manner and Form as Sheriffs Escheators and other Officers Accomptants do yearly make their Accompts in the King's Exchequer at Westminster within this Realm of England. And that the Sheriff's Escheators and other Officers Accomptants of the Counties of Mountgomery and Denbigh, from and after the said Feast of All-Saints, shall yearly make their Accompts before the King's Auditors, and such Chamberlain or Baron of the said