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1661-1676 1 (1661)

handle is hein.ssl/ssva0286 and id is 1 raw text is: ANNO -REGNI C A R OLL I I I, Regis Aglia, Scotie, Francie, & Hibernie, Decimo Tertio. At a G RAND AssEMBL Y, fumMoned to 9( 1TAM be ield at James City, the Twenty Third Day of March, in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord CHA R L ES the Second, by the Grace of G 0 D, of E;g- land, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, De- fender of the Faith, &r,, and in the Year of our Lord 166o: And from thence continued by Prorogation, to the Twenty Third Day of March i66i. MM H E R E A S the late unhappy Diftradions, caufed Preryrhe, V frequent Change in the Governmnt of this Country, and r' thp, 'b (!i~ne~iof thole produced to many Alterations in the Laws, that the Govmeniti, People knew not well what to obey, nor the Judges what i th to punifb; by which Means, njufic was hardly to be tion. avoided, and the juft Freedom of the People, by the Un- *q;f I certainty and Licentiouthes of the laws, hardly to be preferved . This Affembly taking the fatne into their Jerious Confideration, and gravely weighing the Obligations they are under, to diliharge to GO D, the King, and the Country, have, by Settling the Laws, diligently endeavoured to prevent the like Inconveniences, by caufing the whole Body of the Laws to be reviewed, all unneccfary A&s, and chiefly fuch as might kecp in Mc- A mory. Digitized from Best Copy Available