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A64757 Practica Walliæ, or, The proceedings in the great sessions of Wales containing the method and practice of an attorney there, from an original to the execution : whereunto is added, the old statute of Wales at large, and an abridgement of all the statutes uniting Wales to England : with tables of the fees, and the matters therein contained / by Rice Vaughan ... Vaughan, Rice. 1672 (1672) Wing V136; ESTC R3656 72,094 234

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of Hundreds of the same County XXV Likewise the Lordships Towns and Parishes of Wollaston Tidnam and Becheby and all Honours Lordships Castles Lands Tenements and Hereditaments lying between Chepstow bridge and Glocestershire shall be annexed to the County of Glocester as part thereof and shall be parcel of the Hundred of Wesebury in that County Also the Inhabitants thereof shall be attendant as aforesaid and shall claim no priviledge but as Hundreders of the Hundred of Wesebury aforesaid XXVI Cowerwisney Bishops Town Landaffe Signithe supra Signithe subtus Miskin Ogmore Glencothney Tallagarn Ruchien Tallavan Lamhelthion Lantwid Tyerial Avan N●th Land-way and the Clays shall be guildable and united to the County of Glamorgan and Justice shall be administred in Glamorganshire so united according to the Laws of England as in the three Counties of North-Wales and not according to the Welch Laws XXVII Lanemthevery Abermeles Redwely Elkenning Cornwolthon Newcastle Emlin and Abergoyly shall be guildable and annexed to the County of Caermarthen where also Justice shall be administred as aforesaid XXVIII Haverford west Kilgaran Lansteffan Langherne alias Tellanghern Walwinscastle Dewis land Lanny baddein Lanfrey Herbirth Slebeche Rosmarket Castellan and Lland of Loute shall be guildable and annexed to the County of Pembroke wherein Justice shall be administred as aforesaid XXIX Tregarn Generglin Landwy and Vrency shall be guildable and united to the County of Caraigan and there also Justice shall be administred as aforesaid XXX Mountway shall be guildable and annexed to the County of Merioneth in North-Wales as a commote or part thereof XXXI All Justices Commissioners Sheriffs Coroners Escheators Stewards and their Lievtenants and all other Officers and Ministers of Law shall proclaim and keep Sessions Courts Hundreds Leets County-Courts and all other Courts in the English tongue and all Oaths of Officers Juries and Enquests and all Affidavits Verdicts and Wagers of Law shall be given and done in the same tongue XXXII None that use the Welch language shall have or enjoy any Office or Fees in any of the Kings Dominions but shall forfeit them unless he use the English XXXIII The Sheriffs of Monmouth Brekenoke Radnor Mountgomery and Denbigh shall put every unruly person under common Mainprize as the Sheriffs of the three Counties of North Wales use to do XXXIV The Sheriff of Monmouth shall certifie such Recognizances common Mainprize and Surety of Apparence at every Quarter-Sessions of that County and the persons so bayled shall appear at the two Sessions holden at Easter and Michaelmas until they be released XXXV The Sheriffs of Brekenoke Radnor Mountgomery and Denbigh shall certifie such Recognizances c. before such Justice as the King shall appoint at every Sessions to be holden in the said Counties XXXVI All persons under Bail for appearance in the Counties of Brekenoke Radnor Mountgomery Denbigh Glamorgan Caermarthen Pembroke and Cardigan either by the Sheriffs or Justices of those Counties shall appear before the said Justices at every Sessions as is used in the three Counties of North Wales XXXVII The lay and temporal Lords Marchers shall have the moiety of every such Recognizance forfeited within their respective Precincts to be paid them by the Sheriff if he can levy them who is also to answer the other moiety to the King in the Exchequer upon his account XXXVIII The Lord Chancellor shall forthwith after this Parliament direct a Commission under the great Seal for the division of the Counties of Caermarthen Pembroke Cardigan Monmouth Brekenoke Radnor Mountgomery Glamorgan and Denbigh into convenient Hundreds to be returned into the Chancery and there to remain of Record which shall be of like force as an Act of Parliament XXXIX Commissions also shall issue forth to enquire after the Welch Laws and Customs and such of them as shall be thought fit by the King and Council to be continued shall stand and be in full force notwithstanding this Act. XL. Two Knights for the County and one Burgess for the Burrough of Monmouth shall be chosen to serve in Parliament XLI Also one Knight shall be chosen for each County of Brekenoke Radnor Mountgomery and Denbigh and for every other County in Wales and for every Burrough being a Shire-Town except the Shire-Town of Merioneth one Burgess XLII The said Knights and Burgesses shall be elected and enjoy like Priviledges and Fees as Knights and Burgesses of England And the Knights Fees shall be levied of the Commons of each County and those of the Burgesses as well of the Shire-Towns whereof they be Burgesses as of all other ancient Burroughs within the said respective Counties XLIII All Lords Marchers shall enjoy all such Liberties Mises and Profits as they had or used to have at the first entry into their Lands in times past notwithstanding this Act. XLIV The Laws and Customs of the three Counties of North Wales and of the County Palatine of Lancaster are saved XLV This Act shall not extend to derogate any other Act heretofore made for the trial of Treason Murther or Felony or accessaries thereunto committed in any Lordship Marcher in Wales or in any Court of England next adjacent thereunto XLVI Lands by the Custom partable amongst males shall so continue notwithstanding this Act. XLVII The King hath power within three years to suspend or repeal this Act As also within five years to erect as many Courts of Record or others and to appoint as many Justices and other Officers in Wales as he should think fit XLVIII Stat. 33. H. 13. Hope Asaph Hawarden Moldesdale Mereford and Oseley shall be reputed to be within the County of Flint as part thereof and not in any other County Howbeit they shall pay their Taxes with the Inhabitants of such Shire or Shires as hath been formerly accustomed XLIX Also Hope Modesdale Mereford Oseley and Hawarden shall be called the Hundred of Modesdale in the County of Flint and Asaph shall be reputed parcel of the Hundred of Ruthland in the same County L. Stat. 34 35. H. 8.26 Wales shall be divided into twelve Counties whereof eight were ancient Counties viz. Glamorgan Caermarthen Pembroke Cardigan Flint Carnarvan Anglesey and Merioneth also four other were made by the Statute of 27 H. 8.26 viz. Radnor Brekenoke Mountgomery and Denbigh besides the County of Monmouth and divers Lordships united to the Counties of Salop Hereford and Glocester LI. The limitations of Hundreds lately made within the said Counties by Commission out of the Chancery and again returned thither shall stand in force except such of the same as have been since altered by any Act and shall be altered by this LII There shall remain a President and Council in Wales and the Marches thereof with Officers and Incidents thereunto as hath been used which President and Council shall hear and determine such Causes as shall be assigned to them by the King as heretofore hath also been used LIII Sessions shall be kept twice a year in the Counties of Glamorgan Brekenoke Radnor Caermarthen Pembroke Cardigan
England Processes shall be pursued immediately from the Justices of the said Courts as in England also is used CXVI All such Writs Bills Plaints Pleas Process Challenges and Trials shall be used throughout all the Shires aforesaid as are used in North Wales or as shall be devised by the President Council and Justices or three of them whereof the President to be one CXVII Where there shall be some Suits in Pleas personal which cannot be well tryed before the Justices in the great Sessions for shortness of time such Issues may be tryed at the petty Sessions before the Deputy Justices as is used in the three Counties of North Wales save only for such Suits as by the discretion of the said Justices shall be necessary to be tryed before themselves Howbeit there shall be no Suit taken before any of the said Justices by Bill under the sum of 20 s. CXVIII No other Liberties Franchises or Customs shall be used or claimed in any Lordship which was anciently part of Wales whosoever be owner or owners thereof but only such as be given to the Lords thereof by force of the Statute of 27 H. 8.26 and not altered by this Act notwithstanding the Stat. of 32 H. 8.20 which see in Franchises CXIX If any Murther or Felony be committed in Wales the party or parties grieved shall make no agreement with the offender or with any other in his behalf unless he first acquaint the President Council or Justices therewith in pain of Imprisonment and grievous Fine at the discretion of the President Council and Justices or two of them whereof the President to be one the like punishment also they shall incur that labour or procure such agreement although it never take effect CXX If any person or they whose Estate he hath have peaceable possession of Lands in Wales by the space of five years without interruption or lawfull claim such person shall continue the same untill they be recovered from him by Law or Decree of the President or Council there CXXI If in personal Actions pursued before the Justices nine of the Jury be sworn and the residue make default or be tryed out in that Case the Sheriff may return other names de circumstantibus untill the Jury be full as is used in North Wales and else-where in such Cases CXXII No sale of Goods or Cattel stolen in Wales and sold in any Fair or Market there shall alter the propriety thereof such sale notwithstanding CXXIII No person shall buy any quick Cattel in Wales out of the Fair or Market unless he can produce credible witness of the person place and time he so bought the same in pain of such punishment and Fine as shall be set by the President and Council or any of the Justices in his Circuit and to answer it at his further peril CXXIV If any Goods or Cattels be stollen in Wales the Tract shall be followed from Town to Town and Lordship to Lordship according to the Laws and Customs heretofore used in Wales upon such penalty as hath been heretofore accustomed CXXV Any man being a Freeholder may pass upon a Jury in all Causes both criminal and civil Attaint only excepted saving to every man his lawfull Challenge according to the Laws of England Howbeit none shall pass in Attaint unless he have Freehold of 40 s. per annum CXXVI Tenants and Resiants in Wales shall pay their Tallage at the change of their Lords in such places and after such form as hath been accustomed in Wales CXXVII The Kings Subjects in Wales shall find at the Parliaments in England Knights for the Counties and Citizens and Burgesses for the Cities and Towns to be chosen by the Kings Writ according to the Statute of 27 H. 8.26 and shall also be chargeable to all Subsidies and other Charges granted by the Commons of the said Parliaments and pay all other Rents Farms Customs and Duties to the King as hath been accustomed Fines for redemption of Sessions only excepted which the King is pleased to remit CXXVIII Haverford-west shall find one Burgess for that Town whose Charges shall be born by the Major Burgesses and Inhabitants of the said Town and by none other CXXIX The King shall have all Felons Goods Goods of persons outlawed Waifs Estrays and all other Forfeitures and Escheats and shall be answered thereof by the Sheriffs saving the right of all others having lawfull title thereto CXXX Errors and Judgements before any of the Justices in their great Sessions in Pleas real and mixt shall be redressed by Writ of Error out of the Chancery of England returnable before the Justices of the Common Place as other Writs of Error be in England but Errors in Pleas personal shall be reformed by Bill before the President and Council and if the Judgement be affirmed good in any of the said Writs or Bills then there to make Execution and all other Process thereupon as is used in the Kings Bench of England and that the Plaintiff in every such Writ or Bill pay for the same like Fees as is used in England CXXXI No Execution of any Judgement given in any base Court shall be stayed by reason of any Writ of false Judgement but Execution may be had at all times before the reversal of such Judgement and if such Judgement shall after be reversed the Plaintiff shall be restored to what he hath lost by such Judgement CXXXII All Process for urgent and weighty Causes shall be directed into Wales by the Chancellor of England or any of the Kings Council as heretofore hath been used notwithstanding this Act. CXXXIII The Town of Bewdley in the Parish of Ribsford in Com. Wigorn. is made parcel of the County of Wigorn and united to the Hundred of Dodingtree in that County saving to the Burgess and Inhabitants of Bewdley their ancient Liberties and Franchises CXXXIV Llanstissan Vsterloys and Langham with their members are united to the County of Caermarthen and made parcel of the Hundred of Derries in that County CXXXV The Shire-Court of the County of Radnor shall be holden one time at New Radnor and another time at Preston alternis vicibus and never at Rather Goway notwithstanding the Statute of 27 H. 8.26 CXXXVI The Kings Farmer of the Subsidy and Aulnage of Wollen Cloths in the County of Monmouth and the other twelve Counties of Wales shall take for sealing such Cloths as followeth viz. for every whole piece of Frise 1 d. a half piece ob a piece of Cotton or Lining 24 yards and under ob a piece of the same above 24 yards 1 d. a broad Cloth 1 d. a piece of Kersey 18 yards or above 1 d. and for a piece of Kersey under 18 yards ob Howbeit this shall not extend to Cloth made in private Houses and not put to sale but to their Servants CXXXVII The Aulnager in Wales shall be bound and subject to the Laws and Customs of England in like case provided CXXXVIII The Town of Haverford west