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THE STATUTES OF WALES
[A.D. 1535

Felonies, whatsoever they be; nor any Accessaries to any Treasons, Murders, Manslaughters, or Felonies; or any Outlawries for any such Offences afore rehearsed, committed, perpetrated, done or divulged, or hereafter to be committed, done or divulged, by or against any Person or Persons in any Part of this Realm, Wales, or to the Marches of the same; but that the King's Highness, his Heirs and Successors, Kings of this Realm, shall have the whole and sole Power and Authority, thereof united and knit to the Imperial Crown of this Realm as of good Right and Equity it appertaineth; any Grants, Usages, Prescriptions, Allowances, Act or Acts of Parliament, or any other Thing to the contrary hereof notwithstanding.

2. And be it also enacted by Authority aforesaid, That no Person or Persons, of what Estate, Degree or Condition soever they be, from the said first Day of July, shall have any Power or Authority to make any Justices of Eyre, Justices of Assise, Justices of Peace, or Justices of Gaol Delivery; but that all such Officers and Ministers shall be made by Letters Patents under the King's Great Seal, in the Name and by Authority of the King's Highness and his Heirs, King's of this Realm, in all Shires, Counties, Counties Palatine, and other Places of this Realm, Wales, and the Marches of the same, or in any other his Dominions, at their Pleasure and Wills, in such Manner and Form as Justices of Eyre, Justices of Assise, Justices of Peace, and Justices of Gaol Delivery, be commonly made in every Shire of this Realm; any Grants, Usages, Prescriptions, Allowances, Act or Acts of Parliament, or any other Thing or Things to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

3. And be it further enacted by Authority of this present Parliament, That all original Writs and judicial Writs, and all manner of Indictments of Treason, Felony and Trespass, and all manner of Process to be made upon the same, in every County Palatine, and other Liberty within this Realm of England, Wales, and Marches of the same, shall from the said first Day of July be made only in the Name of our said Sovereign Lord the King, and his Heirs Kings of England; and that every Person or Persons, having such County Palatine, or any other such Liberty to make such originals, Judicials, or other Process of Justice, shall make the Teste in the said original Writs and Judicial, in the Name of that same Person or Persons that have such County Palatine or Liberty.