The Act of Union 1536 continues from post (27)....
"21. Furthermore it is enacted...that immediately after the prorogation or dissolution of this present parliament, the Lord Chancellor of England shall direct the King's Commission under His Grace's Great Seal to such persons as to him shall be thought convenient, to enquire and search out, by all ways and means that they can, all and singular laws usages and customs used within the said dominion and country of Wales; and the same shall return and certify to the King's Highness and his most honourable Council before the said Feast of All-Saints next coming; and that upon deliberate advice thereof had and taken, all such laws usages and customs as the King's Highness and his said most honourable Council shall think expedient requisite and necessary to be had used and exercised in the before rehearsed shires, or any of them, or in any other shire of the dominion or country of Wales, shall stand and be of full strength virtue and effect, and shall be for ever inviolable observed had used and executed in the same shires as if this Act had never been had nor made; any thing in the same Act Contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding."
This section directs the "King's Commission" to collect, analyze, and judge "...all and singular laws usages and customs used within the said dominion and country of Wales". These laws were be judged "expedient requisite and necessary".
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