II Lordships Marchers in Wales; and the Disorders committed therein: Such Lordships Marchers annexed to, or divided into certain Shires. Lordships, Towns, &c. included in the County of Monmouth. Monmouth the Shire Town.
And forasmoche as there be many and dyvers Lordshippes Marchers within the said Countrey or Dominion of Wales lieng betwene the Shires of Englande and the Shires of the said Countrey or Dominion of Wales, . . . and for asmoche as dyvers and many of the said Lordeshippes Marchers be nowe in the handes and possession of our Soveraigne Lorde the Kinge, and the smallest nombre of them in the possession of other Lordes, It is therefore enacted by thauctoritie aforesaid that dyvers of the said Lordeshippes Marchers shalbe united annexed & joyned to dyvers of the Shires of Englande, And dyvers of the said Lordshippes Marchers shalbe united annexed and joyned to dyvers of the Shires of the said Countrey or Dominion of Wales in manner and forme hereafter followyng; And that all the residue of the said Lordeshippes Marchars within the said Countrey or Dominion of Wales shalbe severed and devyded into certayne perticular Counties or Shires, that is to say; The Countie or Shire of Monimouth, the Countie or Shire of Brekenoke, the Countie or Shire of Radnore, the Countie or Shire of Montgomery, the Countie or Shire of Denbigh: And that the Lordshippes Towneshippes Parisshes Commotes and Cantredes of Monimouth Chepstowe Matherne Llanmyhangell Magour Goldcliffe Newporte Wenloge Llanwerne Caerlion Uske Trelecke Tynterne Skynfreth Grousmonte White Castell Reglan Calicote Byston Abergevenny Penrose Grenefeld Maghen and Hochnyslade, in the said Countrey of Wales, and all and singuler Honours Lordshipps Castells Manours Landes Tenementes and Hereditamentes lieng or beyng within the compasse or precincte of the said Lordshippes Towneshippes Hamlettes Parisshes Commotes and Cantredes and every of them, in whos possession so every they be or shalbe, and every parte therof, shall stand and be, Gildable and shalbe reputed accepted named and taken as parte and membres of the said Shire of Monimouthe: And that the said Towne of Monimounte shalbe named accepted reputed used had and taken heed and Shire Towne of the said Countie or Shire of Monimouthe: . . .
Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1887 (c. 59)
Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: hedde O. [This O refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
Words repealed by Sheriffs Act 1887 (c. 55), s. 39, Sch. 3