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THE STATUTES OF WALES
[A.D. 1535

jects"; His Highness therefore, of a singular Zeal Love and Favour that he beareth towards his Subjects of his said Dominion of Wales, minding and intending to reduce them to the perfect Order Notice and Knowledge of his Laws of this his Realm, and utterly to extirp all and singular the sinister Usages and Customs differing from the same, and to bring the said Subjects of this his Realm, and of his said Dominion of Wales, to an amicable Concord and Unity, hath by the deliberate Advice Consent and Agreement of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, ordained enacted and established. That his said Country or Dominion of Wales shall be, stand and continue for ever from henceforth incorporated united and annexed to and with this his Realm of England; and that all and singular Person and Persons, born or to be born in the said Principality Country or Dominion of Wales, shall have enjoy and inherit all and singular Freedoms Liberties Rights Privileges and Laws within this his Realm, and other the King's Dominions, as other the King's Subjects naturally born within the same have, enjoy and inherit.

2. And that all and singular Person and Persons inheritable to any Manors Lands Tenements Rents Reversions Services or other Hereditaments, which shall descend after the Feast of All Saints next coming, within the said Principality Country or Dominion of Wales, or within any particular Lordship, Part or Parcel of the said Country or Dominion of Wales, shall for ever, from and after the said Feast of All Saints, inherit and be inheritable to the same Manors Lands Rents Tenements Reversions and Hereditaments, after the English Tenure, without Division or Partition, and after the Form of the Laws of this Realm of England, and not after any Welsh Tenure, nor after the Form of any Welsh Laws or Customs; and that the Laws Ordinances and Statutes of this Realm of England, for ever, and none other Laws Ordinances nor Statutes, from and after the said Feast of All-Saints next coming, shall be had used practised and executed in the said Country or Dominion of Wales, and every Part thereof, in like Manner Form and Order as they be and shall be had, used, practised and executed in this Realm, and in such like Manner and Form as hereafter by this Act shall be further established and ordained; any Act Statute Usage Custom Precedent Liberty Privilege or other Thing had made used granted or suffered to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.