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THE STATUTES OF WALES
[A.D. 1542-3

King's Highness, before the Justice of the said County of Denbigh, in the great Sessions there, and some before the Justices of the Peace within the same County, for Offences supposed to be done within divers of the said Lordships so translated, and also divers Judgments given at the Suit of the Parties before the said Justices; and some before the Sheriff of the said County of Denbigh, for Matters risen and grown within the Precinct of the said Lordships or other Places, before the Translation of the same": It is now ordained and enacted, that all the said Indictments and Presentments shall be heard, tried, and determined within the said County of Denbigh, by Persons as well of the said Lordship or Place where the said Offences were done or committed, as of other Place or Places within the said County of Denbigh, in Manner and Form, as though the said Translations had never been had nor made: And also that the said Judgments as before given or had between Party and Parties, before any Justice of Record or other Officer within the said County of Denbigh, for any Matter or Cause, appearing by the Record of the same to be grown and risen within any of the said Lordships, Parishes, Towns, or Hamlets so translated, shall and may be executed by the Sheriif of the said County of Denbigh within any of the same Lordships, or other Place so translated; the said Translation, or any other Cause or Matter to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

98. Item, Like Law and Order to be kept and ministered upon all other like Translations of any other Lordships, Manors, Towns, Parishes, and other Places within Wales, had, made or done in this present Parliament, or any other afore or after the same Translations, or any other Cause or Matter to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

99. Item, Where there shall be divers and many Suits taken before the said Justices in Pleas personal, which (as it is thought) cannot be tried before them in the Time of the said great Sessions, for Brevity of Time; Therefore, and for the speedy Trial of these Matters, the Issues taken in the said Suits shall and may be tried at a Petty Sessions, before the Deputy Justices there, as is and hath been used in the said three Shires of North Wales; except such of the said Suits, as by the Discretion of the said Justices shall be thought necessary to be tried before themselves, within their Limits; and that there shall be no Suit taken before any of the said Justices by Bill, under the Sum of twenty Shillings.