In this Act all words denoting a male person shall be taken to include a female also, and all words denoting one person or thing shall be taken to include also several persons or things, unless a contrary sense shall clearly appear from the context; and the words “Arches Court of Canterbury,” used in this Act, shall be construed to extend to such court as shall exercise the jurisdiction of the said court or be substituted for the same; and wherever the words “ecclesiastical court” have been used in this Act the same shall be construed to extend to such court as shall exercise the jurisdiction or any part of the jurisdiction exercised by any ecclesiastical court or be substituted for the same; and the words “ecclesiastical and maritime cause of appeal” shall be construed to extend to causes appealed from ecclesiastical courts and such court as shall exercise the jurisdiction or any part of the jurisdiction exercised by any ecclesiastical court or be substituted for the same.