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96 shall be as good and effectual to all intents and purposes as though it been done and made plainly and particularly by authority of Parliament.

A.D. 1540]

For the speedy trial and punishment of such persons as have committed and done or hereafter shall commit and perpetrate any manner of treasons and misprisions of treasons within the principality and dominion of and Marches of the same or elsewhere within any the King's dominion where his Grace's original writs in his Chancery of England commonly runneth not, Be it enacted by authority of this present parliament, that all such treasons and misprisions of treasons as is aforesaid shall be presented and tried by the oaths of 12 men inhabiting or which shall inhabit within any such Shires, and before such Commissioners as the King's Majesty from time to time in such cases shall assign and appoint by his Commission or Commissions of Oyer and determiner, in like manner and form as if such treasons or misprisions of treasons had been done and committed within such the said Shires into the which the said Commissions of Oyer and determiner shall be directed as is aforesaid; And that all presentments trials processes judgments executions and forfeitures hereafter made had or done by virtue of such commissions shall be good and effectual in the law to all purposes and intents any grant custom or usage heretofore made or used to the contrary notwithstanding.

Provided alway that trials of Peers of the Realm concerning Treasons shall be done and had as heretofore hath been used and accustomed; any usage in this Act contained notwithstanding.

A.D. 1540]

....... ... And where also divers of the King's Subjects, of their sinister and subtle means have likewise obtained of the King's Majesty for term of life and lives divers grants unto them made