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A.D. 1542-3]
THE STATUTES OF WALES
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Fee-tail, for Term of Life, or for Term of Years, after the Manner and according as is used by the Laws of the Realm of England; and Welsh Law or Custom heretofore used in the said Country or Dominion of Wales to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. This Article to take Effect from and after the said Feast of the Nativity of St. John Baptist, which was in the said thirty-third Year of our said Sovereign Lord's Reign.

94. Item, If any Person or Persons having Lands, or Tenements within the said Dominion of Wales, been, or hereafter shall be bound within the Realm of England, by Obligation upon the Statute of the Staple, or by Recognizance, and pay not the Debt as shall appertain, that then upon Certificate thereof made unto the King's Chancery of England, by the Clerk of the Staple, or by any Justice of Record before whom such Recognizance shall be knowledged. Process shall be made to the Sheriffs of Wales out of the Chancery of England after the Form as is used to be made upon Statutes and Recognizances by the Course of the Laws of England, for the due levying and paying of the said Debt.

95. Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That for such Recognizances as be or hereafter shall be taken and knowledged before the King's Justices of his Highness Bench or Common-place in England, Process shall be had and pursued immediately out from the said Justices, as is used upon Recognizances taken before the said Justices by the common Course of the Laws of England.

96. Item, That all such Writs, Bills, Plaints, Pleas, Process, Challenges and Trials, shall be used throughout all the Shires aforesaid, before the said Justices in their Sessions, as is used in North Wales, or as shall be devised by the said President, Council and Justices, or three of them, whereof the said President to be one, for the good Ministration of Justice to be had in every of the said Shires.

"97. Item, Where the Lordship of Hope, with divers other Lordships, Parishes, Towns and Hamlets, were by an Act of Parliament made in the thirty-third Year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lord appointed and translated from the said County of Denbigh to the County of Flint, and by the same Act were made Part, Parcel, and Members of the same County of Flint, afore which Appointment or Translation divers Indictments and Presentments, as well of Felony as other Offences, were had and taken for the