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A. D. 153 1. Anno vicefimo tcrtio Hbnrici VIII, C. 6. as ithall nor of their Commiflion, or by Authority ( ftand ■■ ' ime as their Commiflion cndureth, and no! longi ingrofled in Parchment, and certified undi "" M of the faid Commiifionei King's ( mrt ol Chancery, and then the King's Royal . fl I had to the fame ; any Thing contained in thi to I ontrary hereof notwithftanding. all 1, I11 often as fuch Commiflion as is afore limited fhall he '3 El. c 9. f. ». made and directed to any Perfon or Perfons for the Reformation and Amendment of or in anv of the Pre- Commifl fpecified in the faid Commiflion, within th< Fees, Liberties', and Pofleflions of the Principality of // ales, the County Palatine ol CI. /?« , or within the Fees, Liberties, and Pofleflions of any other Place where iA - n<: - there is Liberty and Jurifdidtion of County Pal. nine, That in every fuch Cafe Two Commiflions fhall be awarded and made according to the Tenor of the Commiflion above exprefled, One thereof under the Great Seal of England, and the other under the ufual Seal of the County Palatine, in Manner and Form as is above provided for the Duchy of Lancajhr ; any Thing afore rchearfed in this prcfent Act to the contrary notwithftanding. XIX. And it is provided, and alfo enacted, That the Royal AfTcnt limited to be had unto the Laws and Th ■: Ordinances to be made by the faid Commiflioners, as is abovefaid, fhall be certified into the faid Court of R °y^ AHent Chancery under the King's Privy Seal ; (2) and that there fhall not any Sum of Money be paid for the J 1 "" b h e fame Privy Seal ; but for the writing of the fame Certificate under the faid Privy Seal fliall be paid to the ^J ' thereof ;". s. and not above, nor no other nor greater Sum for any Thing touching or concerning ..{.• the fame Certificate under the fame Privy Seal. 13 E!. 1 XX. Provided alway, That the Chancellors, and fuch other as fhall have the Cuftody of the Seals of the Commiflions io faid Principality of JValcs, or the County Palatine of Chefter, or within the Fees, Liberties, and PoiT I- W fions of any other Place where there is Liberty and Jurifdidlion of County Palatine, upon reafonable Re- Countie . quell, and upon the Sight of the Commiflion under the King's Great Seal of his Chancery, fhall without tmc- Delay make out another Commiflion under the Seal of the laid County Palatine, according to the Tenor rtcgift. r. ,„, of the King's CommilTion to them fhewed tinder his Great Seal ; (2) and to thofe Commiflioners as fhall Made per'pciua'l be named by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Treafurer, and the Two Chief Juftices, or by Three of them, b >' 3 &♦ E* 6. whereof the Lord Chancellor to be One, except it be within the Fees, and Liberties of the Duchy of Lan- c j ? ^ nd "" softer, within which Fees and Liberties the Commiflioners fhall be named, and Commiflions made, as is f u^ a J f. 1 afore ordained by this Act ; any Thing contained in the faid Act, or in any Provifo thereunto added and /ir'dfi-.f. ', ■ Vr ' annexed, to die contrary thereof notwithftanding. (3) This Act to endure for Twenty Years. 7 .-.'"•. .-. 10. CAP. VI. For Obligations to be taken by Two Chief Juftices, the Mayor of the Staple, and the Re- corder of London. FOrafmuch as the Mayors of the Staple in divers Places of this Realm, where any Staple is kept,^ in Before whom the Prefence of the Conftables of the fame Staple before this Time have and -might lawfully take Re- Recognizances cognifance or Knowledge for Debts, only concerning and touching the Merchandife of the fame Staple, ofD --' betwixt Merchant and Merchant of the. fame Staple, according to divers laudable Statutes and Provi- £^' fions before this Time had, ordained, and made ; (2) which Mayors and Conftables, many and fundry Statutes of" the Times fince the making of the fame Statute, have taken divers Recognifances and Knowledges of divers Staple wcrede- of the King's Subjects for Debts, furmifing the fame Knowledge or Recognifance to be made for Surety vi: " cci only for of Payment of Sums of Money for fuch Wares as were or have been bought in the fame Staple 3 where Mer f nal ] - r of troth the fame Recognifance did not in any wife touch or concern the Merchandife of the fame, ne tweenMeiehant alfo the Parties, that is to fay, the Cognifor, ne the Cognifee, that did Knowledge and take the fame and Merchant. Recognifances, were Merchants of the fame Staple; (3) which Recognifances and Knowledges, taker, in Form aforefaid, are not only clear contrary to the true Meaning and Intent of the fame former Efta- tutes, but alfo thereby divers great and fundry Inconveniencies, Damages, and Deceits do daily arife and grow to divers of the Subjects of our Sovereign Lord the King, by reafon of the mifufing of the fame ; and for as much as the King's High.nefs, of his mod high Wifdom, perceiveth the Mifufing and Execution of the fame to be contrary to the Form of the faid former Statutes, therefore his Pleafure is, that fome true, lawful, and reafonable Bond, for Surety of Payment of the Debts of his Subjects, fhall be made and devifed by true and juft Means, which in itfelf may and fhall purport Right and Equity, and alfo confonant to Reafon.' II. In Coniideration whereof, by the Aflent of the King's Higlinefs, his Lords Spiritual and Temporal, Wh and his Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, it is enacted, R l ec 5 niMrc ! :p ' ordained, and eftablifhed, That from the'Firft.Day of April next coming, the Chief Juftice of the King's toiwnSuvL' Bench, and the Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas, which now be, or at any Time hereafter fhall be, and Co rl. f. 12. ' every of them by himfelf, and in their Abfence out of the Term, the Mayor of the Staple of JVejhninJhr, 1 M d. iS and the Recorder of the City of London, for the time being, jointly together, by his or their Difcretions, c - L,t - lf > fhall have full Power and Authority to take Recognizances or Knowledges of every of the King's Subjects I55 " for the Payment of Debts, according to fuch Form as hereafter enfueth ; " (-2; N»