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A.D. 1535]
THE STATUTES OF WALES
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26. Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That immediately upon the Prorogation or Dissolution of this present Parliament, the Lord Chancellor of England shall direct the King's Commission under his Grace's Great Seal, to such Persons as to him shall be thought convenient, to inquire and view all the said Shires of Kayermarthen, Pembroke, Cardigan, Monmouth, Brecknock, Radnor, Mountgomery, Glamorgan, and Denbigh, and every Part and Parcel of them; and upon such View and Search, to divide them and every of them into so many Hundreds as they shall think most meet and convenient; and the Hundreds so divided shall return and certify with the said Commission into the High Court of Chancery before the said Feast of All-Saints, and the same to remain of Record, and to be of such Force and Effect as it were by Act of Parliament; and that the said Hundreds, after the said Certificate, shall be used and taken as other Hundreds be in every other Shire within this Realm of England.

27. Furthermore it is enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That immediately after the Prorogation or Dissolution of this present Parliament, the Lord Chancellor of England shall direct the King's Commission under his Grace's Great Seal to such Persons as to him shall be thought convenient, to enquire and search out, by all Ways and Means that they can, all and singular Laws Usages and Customs used within the said Dominion and Country of Wales; and the same shall return and certify to the King's Highness, and his most honourable Council, before the said Feast of All-Saints next coming; and that upon deliberate Advice thereof had and taken, all such Laws Usages and Customs as the King's Highness and his said most honourable Council shall think expedient requisite and necessary to be had used and exercised in the before rehearsed Shires, or any of them, or in any other Shire of the Dominion or Country of Wales, shall stand and be of full Strength, Virtue and Effect, and shall be for ever inviolably observed had used and executed in the same Shires, as if this Act had never been had nor made; any Thing in the same Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

28. And it is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That for this present Parliament, and all other Parliaments to be holden and kept for this Realm, two Knights shall be chosen and elected to the same Parliament for the Shire of Monmouth, and one Burgess for the Borough of Monmouth, in like Manner Form and Order, as