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AN ACT For continuing the privileges and Jurisdictions Of the COUNTY of LANCASTER.  
BE it Enacted by this present Parliament, and the Authority thereof, That all privileges and jurisdictions belonging to the said County of LANCASTER, and the Inhabitants thereof, be continued till the First of January, One thousand six hundred fifty three, and no longer: And that John Bradshaw sergeant at Law, and Thomas Fell Esq; be, and are hereby made and appointed Commissioners for keeping the Seal of the said County; and that they and either of them have all such Powers, as any Chancellor of the said County formerly hath lawfully used or exercised concerning the same, till the First of January aforesaid, and no longer.  

Saturday the Seventeenth of September, 1653.  
ORdered by the Parliament, That this Act be forthwith Printed and Published.  
Hen: Scobell, Clerk of the Parliament.    

London, Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament of England. 1653.