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For the third, it was never brought in question till 16 

 Eliz. in the case of one Wynde. 



And for the fourth, the controversy being moved in that 

 case, it was referred to Gerrard, attorney, and Bromley, soli 

 citor, who was afterwards chancellor of England, and had 

 his whole state of living in Shropshire and Worcester, and 

 by them reported to the lords of the council in the star- 

 chamber, and upon their report decreed, and the jurisdic 

 tion affirmed. 



Lastly, I will conclude with two manifest badges and 

 tokens, though but external yet violent in demonstration, 

 that these four shires were understood by the word marches ; 

 the one the denomination of that council, which was ever 

 in common appellation termed and styled the council of 

 the marches, or in the marches, rather than the council of 

 Wales, or in Wales, and denominatio est a digniore. If it 

 had been intended of lordships marches, it had been as if 

 one should have called my lord mayor my lord mayor of 

 the. suburbs. But it was plainly intended of the four 

 English shires, which indeed were the more worthy. 



And the other is of the perpetual resiance and mansion 

 of the council, which was evermore in the shires ; and to 

 imagine that a court should not have jurisdiction where it 

 sitteth, is a thing utterly improbable, for they should be 

 tanquam piscis in arido. 



So as upon the whole matter, I conclude that the word 

 marches in that place by the natural sense, and true intent 

 of the statute, is meant the four shires. 



The effect of that that was spoken by Serjeant Hut ton and 

 Serjeant Harris, in answer of the former argument, and 

 for the excluding of the jurisdiction of the marches in the 

 four shires. 



That which they both did deliver was reduced to three 

 heads : 



The first to prove the use of the word marches for lord 

 ships marchers. 



The second to prove the continuance of that use of the 

 word, after the statute of 27, that made the lordships 

 marchers shire-grounds ; whereupon it was inferred, that 

 though the marches were destroyed in nature, yet they re 

 mained in name. 



The third was some collections they made upon the 

 statute of 34; whereby they inferred, that that statute in 

 tended that word in that signification. 



