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CHAP. III. Of Precedencies.
HAving shewn the Kings Warrant, and the Lord Chancellors, and the Record made up in the Pettibag, call'd the Parliament Pawn, and given a touch of the nature of Writs in general, and in particular, of Parliamen∣tary Writs of Summons, consisting of Writs Exemplar and Consimilar, as also an hint of Precepts or Derivative-Writs from those Exemplars, (which are to be more fully treated of in the 2d. part,) I shall proceed to the Act of 31 of Hen. the 8th. concerning Precedencies in the Lords House, occasion'd from the de∣fect or long disusage of Pawns, or other State reasons; for there being no Pawns extant but, as I said, from the 21 of Hen. the 8th. to this time, the other be∣ing by Endorsment &c. on the Re∣cords in the Tower or Rolls Chappel; Our King Hen. the 8th. did make this Act of Precedencies, (which hath its chief Reference to the time