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or outlawed of Felony or Murder, put in Exigent for Felony or Murder and also Wreck de Mer Wharfage and Customs of Strangers as they have had in times past, and as though such privileges had been granted unto them by point of Charter any thing in that Act to the contrary notwithstanding, as in the said Act of Parliament more at large it may appear: And forasmuch as Bishops and other Ecclesiastical persons being Lords Marchers, having the like Liberties, Casualties Profits and Commodities within their Lordships Marchers and Lordships Royal within the said Dominion or Principality of Wales, were not provided for by the express Letter of the said Statute, in like sort as the Lay and Temporal Lords Marchers were, but rather of purpose as it should seem forgotten and left out of the said Act, against all Reason and good Equity: And forasmuch also as the heirs and successors of the Lay and Temporal Lords Marchers then being, were not provided for by the limitation and express words of the said Act as well as their Ancestors and Predecessors were, as reason would they should have been; It may please your Majesties of your most gracious favour and benignity at the humble suit and supplication of your said faithful Subjects the Lords Marchers that now are in the said Dominion of Wales, both Spiritual and Temporal, to grant that it may by the assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled. Be ordained, established and enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament, That as well your said Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Subjects Lords Marchers now having Lordships Marchers or Lordships Royal in Wales aforesaid and their successors and the successors of every of them. As also the heirs and successors of the Lords Temporal Marchers that then were or now be, and the heirs and successors of every of them, being or which hereafter shall be Lords Marchers, within their Lordships Marchers and Lordships Royal in the Dominion or Principality of Wales, shall have and enjoy to them and to their heirs and successors respectively and severally for ever the moiety and half of every forfeiture of all and every Common Mainprise Recognisance for the Peace or Appearance forfeited by any of their tenants inhabiting within any their Lordships Marchers or Lordships Royal, and they to be paid the same moiety or half by the hands of the Sheriff of the County for the time being, after such form and sort as the said Lay or Temporal Lords Marchers have been or ought to have been paid the same by force of the said Statute: And further shall have all such Mises and