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A.D. 1562] Title and Interest as they or any of them should or ought to have had to such Issues to be lost and forfeited, as though this Act had never been had or made.

7. Provided also, That this Act nor anything therein contained shall not extend to any City or Town Corporate, or to any Sheriff Minister or Ministers in the same, for the return of any Inquest or Panel to be made and returned of Persons inhabiting in the said Cities or Towns Corporate; but that they and every of them shall and may return such persons in every such Inquest or Panel as before this time they might and have been accustomed to do, and as if this Act had never been had or made; so that the same Sheriff Minister or Ministers return upon such Persons as shall be impanelled such like and reasonable Issues as they ought to return; any thing in the same contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

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"Whereas the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, like a most godly and virtuous Princess, having chief Respect and Regard to the Honour and Glory of God, and the Souls Health of her Subjects, did in the First Year of her Reign, by the Authority of her High Court of Parliament, chiefly for that Purpose called, set forth a Book of Common Prayer and Order of the Administration of Sacraments in the vulgar English Tongue, to be used through all her Realm of England, and the Marches of the same, that thereby her Highness' most loving Subjects understanding in their own Language the terrible and fearful Threatenings rehearsed in the Book of God against the Wicked and Malefactors, the pleasant and infallible Promises made to the elect and chosen Flock, with a Just Order to rule and Guide their Lives according to the Commandments of God, might much better learn to love and fear God, to serve and obey their Prince, and to know their Duties towards their Neighbours; which Book being received as a most precious Jewel with an inspeakable Joy of all such her Subjects as did and do understand the English Tongue, the which Tongue is not understanded of the most and greatest Number of all her Majesty's most loving and obedient Subjects inhabiting within her Highness