Palatine, upon any Writ or Process issuing out of any of his Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster shall hold any Person to Special Bail, unless an Affidavit be first made in Writing, and filed in that Court, out of which such Writ or Process is to issue signifying the Cause of Action, and that the same is Twenty Pounds and upwards; and where the Cause of Action is Twenty Pounds and upwards. Bail shall not be taken for more than the Sum expressed in such Affidavit.
An Act for the Amendment of the Law, and the better Advancement of Justice.
24. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That from and after the said first Day of Trinity Term, this Act, and all the Statutes of Jeofails shall extend to all Suits in any of her Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, for Recovery of any Debt immediately owing, or any Revenue belonging to her Majesty, her Heirs or Successors; and shall also extend to all Courts of Record in the Counties Palatine of Lancaster, Chester, and Durham, and the Principality of Wales, and to all other Courts of Record within the Kingdom.
Whereas by Act of Parliament passed in the one and twentieth year of the reign of the late King Henry the Eighth, intituled, An Act where mortuaries ought to be paid, for what persons, and how much and in what case none is due, and by a proviso or clause therein contained, it is provided (among other things) that it shall be lawful to the Bishops of Bangor Landaff St. Davids and St. Asaph to take such mortuaries of the priests within their dioceses and jurisdictions as thentofore had been accustomed; and the Bishops
