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THE STATUTES OF WALES.
[A.D. 1553

Members of the said Shire of Monmouth; and that the said Town of Monmouth shall be named accepted reputed used had and taken Head and Shire-town of the said County or Shire of Monmouth; and that the Sheriffs County or Shire-court of and for the said Shire and County of Monmouth, shall be holden and kept one Time at the said Town of Monmouth, and the next Time at the Town of Newport, in the same County or Shire, and so to be kept in the same two Towns alternis vicibus and according to the Laws of this Realm of England for ever, and in none other Places.

4. And it is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That all Actions reals that hereafter shall be conceived perpetrated or sued for any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments, or any other Thing within the said County or Shire of Monmouth and all Actions personals within the same Shire or County of the sum of 40.s. or above, and all Actions mixt, shall be sued by original Writ out of the King's High Court of Chancery in England, and heard determined and tried before the King's Justices in England, or by Assise or Nisi prius within the said County of Monmouth, in such like Manner Form and Wise as all other Actions reals personals and Actions mixt be sued heard determined and tried in or for any Shire of this Realm of England; and that the King's Justices of his Bench, or of his common Bench of Westminster, shall have full Power and Authority to direct all manner Process to the Sheriff and all other Officers of the said County of Monmouth, and also to direct Writs of Venire facias to the same Sheriff, for the Trial of every Issue joined before them; and also to award Commissions of Nisi prius into the said County of Monmouth, for the Trial of such Issues joined before them, in like Manner and Form as they do into every Shire of this Realm of England; and all and every the King's Subjects and Inhabitants within the said County of Monmouth shall be for ever, from and after the said Feast of All-Saints, obliged and bounden to be obedient and attendant to he Lord Chancellor of England, the King's Justices, and other of the King's most honourable Council, and unto all Laws Customs Ordinances and Statutes of this Realm of England, in like Manner Form and Wise as all other the King's Subjects within every Shire of this Realm of England be obliged and bounden; any Act Statute Usage Custom Liberty Privilege or any other Thing to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding; and that the Sheriff of the said County shall hold Plea of Replegiare, and all other Suits and