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A.D. 1542-3] forfeit every piece and half piece frise, and every piece cotton and half piece cotton so put to sale contrary to the true meaning intent and purpose of this present Act, the one half of which forfeiture to be to the King our Sovereign Lord and the other half to him and them that will sue for the same in any of the King's Courts, wherein no essoin wager of law nor protection shall be allowed.

Provided alway that this Act shall take effect after the feast of the Purification of our Lady next coming and not before.

A.D. 1542-3]

Our Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty, of his tender Zeal and Affection that he beareth towards his loving and obedient Subjects of his Dominion, Principality and Country of, for good Rule and Order to be from henceforth kept and maintained within the same, whereby his said Subjects may grow and arise to more Wealth and Prosperity, hath devised and made divers sundry good and necessary Ordinances, which his Majesty of his most abundant Goodness, at the humble Suit and Petition of his said Subjects of , is pleased and contented to be enacted by the Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, in Manner and Form as hereafter ensueth.

2. First, That his Grace's said Dominion, Principality and Country of, be from henceforth divided into twelve Shires; of the which eight have been Shires of long and ancient Time, That is to say, The Shires of Glamorgan, Caermarthen, Pembroke, Cardigan, Flint, Caernarvan, Anglesey and Merioneth; and four of the said twelve Shires be newly made and ordained to be Shires, by an Act made at the Parliament holden at Westminster in the twenty-seventh Year of our said Sovereign Lord's most noble Reign, that is to say, the Shires of Radnor, Brecknock, Montgomery and Denbigh, over and besides the Shire of Monmouth, and divers other Dominions, Lordships and Manors in the Marches of , united and annexed to the Shires of Salop, Hereford and Glocester, as by the said late Act more plainly appeareth.