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154 Questions Demurrers and Ambiguities in Law do thereupon daily arise increase and are like daily more and more to increase within the said Shires, to the infinite trouble of such one Justice within every of the said several Circuits, and to the great Delay and Hindrance of Administration of Justice.

3. For the better and more speedy Remedy whereof her Majesty's Subjects of the said Principality and Dominion of and County Palatine of Chester have made their most humble Petition and Suit to her Highness, to have two Justices learned in the Laws in every of the said several Circuits: And Forasmuch as some Question Ambiguity and Doubt hath been heretofore made, whether her Highness by her letters Patents under the Great Seal of England might or may authorise constitute or appoint two persons or more to be Her Highness's Justices in every of the said several Circuits, or grant Commission or Commissions of Association or Associations to or with every or any such several Justice and Justices or no; And also whether after such grant the Administration of Justice in those Offices and Function done by Two may be sufficiently warranted by Law or no; For plain explanation whereof and for the better Redress and more speedy Administration of Justice to be had touching the Premisses, Be it declared explained enacted and established by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by the assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same. That the Queen's Highness her Heirs and Successors may and shall, at her or their Will and Pleasure, have full Power Prerogative and Authority from time to time to constitute authorise name or appoint Two or more, learned as aforesaid in the Laws of this Realm, to be Justices of and for the said Counties of Chester Flint Denbigh and Montgomery; and Two or more, learned as aforesaid, to be Justices of, viz. of and for the said Shires of Anglesea Carnarvon and Merioneth; And likewise two or more, learned as aforesaid, to be Justices of and for the said Circuits and Shires of Radnor Glamorgan and Brecknock; and also two or more, learned as aforesaid, to be Justices of and for the said Circuit and Shires of Cardigan Carmarthen and Pembroke and the Town and County of Haverfordwest; Any Law Usage Opinion or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding.

4. And that her Majesty her Heirs and Successors may and shall, at her and their good will and pleasure, from time to time associate and grant Commission and Commissions of Association or