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A.D. 1584]
THE STATUTES OF WALES
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therefore enacted by our Sovereign Lady the Queen's most Excellent Majesty the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same, That every Writ of Covenant, and other Writ whereupon any Fine heretofore hath been levied or hereafter shall be levied, the Return thereof, the Writ of Dedimus potestatem made for the acknowledging of any of the same Fines, the Return thereof, the Concord Note and Foot of every such Fine, the Proclamations made thereupon and the King's Silver, And also every original Writ of Entry in the Post, or other Writ whereupon any common Recovery hath been suffered, or hereafter shall be suffered or passed, the Writs of Summons Ad Warrantizandum, the Returns of the said originals and Writs of Summons Ad Warrantizandum, and every Warrant of Attorney had or to be had, as well of every Demandant and Tenant as Vouchee extant and remaining, or that shall be extant and in being, in the Courts of Assizes or Great Sessions within the said 12 Shires of Wales, Town and County of Haverfordwest, and Counties Palatines, or in the custody of the Officers to whom the charge of Keeping thereof doth appertain, may upon the Request or Election of any person or persons be inrolled in Rolls of Parchment, by such persons and for such Considerations as hereafter in this Act shall be mentioned; And that the Inrollments of the same or any part thereof, shall be of as good force and Validity in Law, to all intents respects and purposes, for so much of any of them so inrolled, as the same being extant and remaining were or ought by Law to be.

2. Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That no Fine, Proclamations upon Fines, or common Recovery, heretofore had levied suffered or passed, or hereafter to be had levied suffered or passed, in any of the said 12 Shires of Wales, Town and County of Haverfordwest, or Counties Palatine, shall be reversed or reversable by any Writ of Error for false or incongruous Latin, erasure, interlining, misentering of any Warrant of Attorney or of any Proclamation, misreturning or not returning of the Sheriff, or other Want of form in Words, and not in Matter of Substance.

3. Provided always. That neither this Act nor any Thing therein contained, shall bar or exclude any person or persons from any Writ of Error, which shall be had taken or pursued within Five years next after the end of this Session of this present Parliament, upon any Fine or Recovery heretofore had or suffered in any of the Courts