1. Introductory Text

2. [I.]. All proceedings in courts of justice, patents, charters, pardons, commissions, &c. shall be in English. and in legible character, not in court-hand,and with usual abbreviations in English, and figures.Penalty £20 to prosecutor.

3. II. But names of writs, process or technical words, may be expressed as commonly used, so as not in court-hand. Prosecutions to be in three months.

4. III, IV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5. V. Commissions and proceedings in admiralty may be certified in Latin.

6. VI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

7. VII,VIII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .