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Attendance in Parliament Act 1514

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Statutes made at Westminster, Anno 6 Hen . VIII. and Anno Dom 1514 An Act that no Knights of Shires nor Burgesses depart before the End of the Parliament.

(6 Hen. 8) C A P. XVI.

'FOrasmuch as commonly in the End of every Parliament divers and many great and weighty Matters as well touching the Pleasure, Weal, and Surety of our Sovereign Lord the King, as the Common Weal of this his Realm and Subjects, are to be treated, communed of, and by Authority of Parliament to be concluded; (2) so it is, that divers Knights of Shires, Citizens for Cities, Burgesses for Boroughs, and Barons of the Cinque Ports, long Time before the End of the said Parliament, of their own Authorities, depart, and go home into their Countries, whereby the said great and weighty Matters are many Times greatly delayed:' (3) In Consideration whereof be it enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, That from henceforth none of the said Knights, Citizens, Burgesses, and Barons, nor any of them that hereafter shall be elected to come or be in any Parliament, do not depart from the said Parliament, nor absent himself from the same, till the said Parliament he...

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