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THE STATUTES OF WALES
[A.D. 1529

Knight, of or for any of our grants and letters patents to him made of the Chamberlainship of South Wales and the Captainship of the Castle of Aberwstwyth.

26. Proviso for Henry Ley, Keeper of the Parks of Hellysbury and Lanteglis.

27. Proviso for Ralph Bryne, Porter of Rutland Castle, Flintshire.

28. Proviso for Thomas Ferrour, Master Forester of Snowdon Forest.

29. Proviso for Piers Stanley, Escheator and Sheriff of Merioneth.

30. Proviso for the Grantees of the Amobreship and Rectorships of Caernarvon, Anglesea and Merioneth.

31. Proviso for Edw : Courtenay, Earl of Devon, Constable of the Castle of Rastormell, &c.

A.D. 1529]
21 Henry 8, c. 6, ss. 6, 7.

An Act concerning the taking of Mortuaries or demanding receiving or clamming the same.

6. And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid that no Mortuaries nor Corse presents, nor any sum or sums of money or other thing for any Mortuary or Corse present shall be demanded taken received or had in the parts of Wales nor in the Marches of the same, nor in the Town of Calais or Berwick nor in the Marches of the same; but only in such parts and places of Wales Marches and Towns aforesaid where Mortuaries have been accustomed to be taken and paid; And in those parts and places no Mortuaries nor Corse presents nor any other thing for Mortuary or Corse present from henceforth be demanded taken received or had but only after the form order and manner above specified in this present Act and none otherwise nor of any other person or persons than is limited by this present Act upon the pain above contained in this present Act.

7. Provided also that it shall be lawful to the Bishops of Bangor, Llandaff, St. David's and St. Asaph, and likewise to the Archdeacon of Chester to take such Mortuaries of the Priests within their Dioceses and Jurisdictions as heretofore have been accustomed.