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convict shall there remain during the natural life of any such convict, the said former Act and Statute notwithstanding; For that there be no Justices of the Peace nor of the Quorum there as the said petty treason murder or felony whereof he is so convicted was committed and done, to take surety by recognizance for the good abearing of every such convict, in manner and form as in the said former Act is rehearsed; Be it therefore enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present parliament assembled and by authority of the same, that every such parson and parsons within such orders of Subdeacon or above, being convict of any petty treason or of any murder of malice prepensid, or of any of the said felonies above rehearsed, or of any accessary to petty treason wilful murder or to any other the said felonies above specified, before any Lord Marcher Steward Lieutenant Deputy or other Justice or officer within Wales, or within any other Place City Town Honour Lordship or Manor within the King's Dominion where no Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum be, and thereupon the same convict admitted unto his Clergy, that the same person or persons, so being within such Holy orders and convict before any such Lord Marcher Steward Lieutenant Deputy or other Justice or officer in Wales, or within any such Place City Town Honour Lordship or Manor within any the King's Dominion where be no Justices of the Peace and of the Quorum, of or for any of the offences aforesaid, and delivered unto the Ordinary as Clerk convict for the same, shall or may find two sureties by recognizance for his good abearing before two of the King's Justices of the Peace, whereof the one to be of the Quorum, in the Shire where the same Convict is or shall be kept in the Ordinary's prison, if the same prison be within the Shire ground where Justices of Peace and of the Quorum be, or else before two of the King's Justices of the Peace, whereof the one to be of the Quorum, in the next Shire adjoining unto the same prison. And that the same two Justices of the Peace, whereof the one to be of the Quorum, to have Power and Authority to take such recognizance and to certify the same, in like manner and form and upon like pain as it should or ought to have been done by virtue of the said former Act, if the same petty treason murder felony or other offence, of or for which any such convict was or shall be so convict and admitted unto his clergy as is aforesaid, had been committed and done within the Shire ground where Justices of the Peace and of the Quorum be.