Section III Process, Writs, Pleas, &c. under certain Titles and Names, may be prosecuted and proceeded upon.
And bee it further Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid that noe Writts Processe Plaints Pleas InformationsIndictments or Judiciall proceedings had commenced or prosecuted before the fifth day of May in the said yeareof our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty in the Name Stile Title or X1Test of Custodes Libertatis AnglieAuthoritate Parliamenti, or in the Name Stile Title or Test of The Keepers of the Libertie of England by Authoritieof Parliament, or in the Name Stile Title or Test of Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotlandand Ireland, and the Dominions thereto belonging, or in the Name Stile Title or Test of Oliver Lord Protector ofthe Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland, and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging, or inthe Name Stile Title or Test of Richard-Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland, andthe Dominions and Territories thereto belonging shall be putt without day abated quashed or discontinued by hisMajesties most just reassumption of the actuall Exercise of his Kingly Government in this Kingdome nor shall the samebee cause of Error Abatement or Discontinuance, but that all such Writs Processe Plaints Pleas InformationsIndictments and Judiciall proceedings and all Commissions for taking of Answers or Examination of Witnesses,Commission for taking of Fines and Warrants of Attourney Guardians or Procheinamy shall stand and bee continuedand shall and may be proceeded upon prosecuted and returned notwithstanding the same were commenced orprosecuted in English, and notwithstanding the present happy Change and Restitution of his Majesties Name andStile in Judiciall Proceedings.
Annotations
Editorial notes
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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Teste O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]