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152 of Anglesea and Carnarvon, being two other Counties of North ; as by the same Act more plainly doth appear; And yet nevertheless in the Parliament holden at Westminster in the 34th and 35th year of the Reign of the said late King Henry the Eighth, by one Act and Statute there made touching certain Ordinances in, it is by one Branch thereof amongst other Things enacted and established, that all Offences, Murders, Robberies and other Felonies which from henceforth should be committed in the said County of Merioneth should and might be inquired of heard and determined before the Justices within the said County of Merioneth, or else in the County of Salop being the next English County adjoining thereunto, in such manner and form as the like Offences committed in other the said Counties in Wales should or might be inquired of heard and determined, as by the said Act more at large doth appear; By reason of which said several Branches contained in the said several Statutes, the said County of Merioneth standeth now not only chargeable to such like Trial, in the next English Shire, for the said Offences as other Counties of at this present be, but also by force of the said Statute made in the said 26th year of the said King Henry the Eighth, the said County of Merioneth is also subject to such Inquiry and Trial to be had within the said Counties of Carnarvon and Anglesea, being both Welsh Shires, much to the discredit of the Inhabitants of the said County of Merioneth, for that no other Counties of  for such Offences are chargeable with the like Trial.

2. Wherefore be it enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament That so much of the said Act and Statute made in the said 26th year of the Reign of the said late King Henry the 8th as doth limit or appoint any of the said Offences before mentioned committed within the said County of Merioneth, to be inquired of tried heard and determined within the said Counties of Carnarvon and Anglesea, or either of them, shall from henceforth be utterly repealed void and of none effect.

A.D. 1576]

Whereas by divers laudable Statutes Usages and Laws of this Realm for the good Government and Administration of Justice