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190 be depending in the Courts of the Great Sessions of his Majesty's Principality of, as fully and as amply for and during the Continuance of the said Act as if the said Courts had been mentioned therein.

A.D. 1670]

Provided always That neither this Act nor anything therein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to the Sale of any the Fee-Farm Rents, Tenths Chauntry Rents, Rents Secke or any dry or other Rents whatsoever due or payable to his Majesty, or the Prince of for the time being, issuing or arising within the Principality and Dominion of ; This Act or anything therein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

A.D. 1688]

1. by the Statute made in the 34 & 35 year of  8th intituled an act for certain ordinances in the King's  Dominion and Principality of  it is enacted that there shall be and remain a President and Council in the said Dominion and Principality of  and the Marches of the same, with all officers clerks and incidents to the same in manner and form as hath been heretofore used and accustomed, which President and Council shall have power and authority to hear and determine by their wisdoms and discretions such causes and matters as be or hereafter shall be assigned to them by the King's Majesty as heretofore hath been accustomed and used, and for as much as the proceedings and decrees of that Court have by experience been found to be an intolerable burthen to the subject within the said Principality contrary to the Great Charter the known laws of the Land and the birthright of the subject and the means to introduce an arbitrary power and government; and forasmuch as all matters examinable or determinable or pretended to be examinable or determinable before the said Court of President