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A.D. 1576] within the Principality and Dominion of and the County Palatine of Chester, it hath been established used and enacted amongst other Things that there shall be holden and kept Sessions twice in every year in every of the shires in the said Dominion and Principality of, that is to say, in the Shires of Glamorgan Brecknock Radnor Carmarthen Pembroke the Town and County of Haverfordwest Cardigan Montgomery Denbigh Flint Carnarvon Merioneth and Anglesea and in the said County Palatine of Chester, the which Sessions are called the King's Great Sessions; and that the Justice of Chester for the time being shall hold and keep Sessions twice in every year in the Shires of Chester Denbigh Flint and Montgomery; And likewise that the Justice of North  shall hold and keep Sessions twice in every year in every of the said Shires of Carnarvon Merioneth and Anglesea; And that also one person learned in the Laws of this Realm of England, by the Queen's Majesty to be appointed, shall be Justice of the Shires of Radnor Brecknock and Glamorgan, and shall in likewise hold and keep Sessions twice in every year in every of the same Shires; And that one other person learned in the Laws of this Realm to be appointed as is aforesaid shall be Justice of the Shires of Carmarthen Pembroke and Cardigan, and the Town and County of Haverfordwest, and shall likewise hold and keep Sessions twice in every year in every of the same Shires; And that the said persons or Justices and every of them then being or that thereafter should be should have several letters Patents and Commissions for their Offices under the Great Seal of England, to be exercised by themselves or their sufficient Deputies, according to the Purports and Intents in the Ordinances specified.

2. Forasmuch as by the good Administration of Justice within the said Shires and Counties the same Principality and Dominion of, and the said County Palatine of Chester, are reduced to great Obedience of Her Majesty's laws and the same greatly inhabited manured and peopled; And for that all and all manner Causes Pleas Actions as well Real Personal and Mixed, Treasons, Pleas of the Crown, Attaints Conspiracies Assizes Quare Impedit Appeals of Murder Mayhems and Felony and trial upon all Murders Manslaughters and Felonies whatsoever arising within the said several Circuits, are by the said Laws Usages and Statutes impleadable impleaded and determinable before One only Justice as is aforesaid; And for that many great and weighty Causes Matters