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THE STATUTES OF WALES
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other County of South Wales; any Matter or Cause heretofore risen or grown to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

87. Item, That the Town and Hamlet of Abertannad, and all the Grounds and the Soil within the same, which afore this Time hath been taken, reputed and used as Parcel of the said County of Merioneth, shall from the Feast of Easter next coming, by Virtue of this Act, be united, annexed and made Parcel of the said County of Salop; and so from thenceforth to be reputed, taken and used for ever, and not to be of any other Shire or County of Wales; and that the same Town or Hamlet, and all the Ground and Soil within the same Town or Hamlet, be from and after the said Feast accepted and taken us Part and Parcel of the Hundred of Oswestre; and that the Inhabitants thereof from the said Feast shall be attendant, and do every Thing and Things with the Inhabitants of the said Hundred of Oswestre, as the same Inhabitants do or be bound to do; any Laws or Customs to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

88. Item, In case any foreign Plea or Voucher be hereafter pleaded or made before any of the said Justices of Wales, between Party and Party, triable in any other Shire within Wales, than where the same Plea is pleaded or Voucher made; that then the said Justices, afore whom the same Plea or Voucher is or shall be pleaded or made, shall and may send the King's Writ, with a Transcript of the Record mentioning the same foreign Matter of Plea or Voucher, under the Seal to him committed, unto the Justice of the County where the same Matter is or shall be triable, commanding the said Justice, by Virtue of the said Writ, to proceed to the Trial thereof according to the King's Laws and Statutes; which Trial so before him had, he shall remand with the whole Record unto the Justice before whom the said Plea or Voucher was pleaded or made, who thereupon shall proceed to Judgment, as the Case shall require.

89. Item, In case the same foreign Plea, Voucher or other Matter so pleaded, be triable within this Realm of England, that then in every such Case the Justice, afore whom the same Plea or Voucher is or shall be pleaded, had or made, shall and may proceed to the Trial thereof, as shall appertain, within the same Shire of Wales, where the same Plea, Voucher or Matter was pleaded; the said foreign Plea, Voucher, or any other Thing or Matter to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.