But the Cornish
Iustices, waying, that prescription is no Supersedeas for swearing,
vpon debating of the matter, haue resolued, and lately accustomed,
in such cases, to put it ouer vnto the weeke ensuing: and these are
their reasons: If the Sessions must bee kept in the first weeke after,
it cannot admit an interpretation of the same weeke it selfe.
Againe, the clause of Easter, mencioned in the one, should seeme to
make a construction of like meaning in the rest. Besides, those,
who suite themselues to the other fashion, doe yet swarue therefrom,
if those feastes fall vpon any later day in the weeke then Munday;
for then they deferre it till the next: and yet, seeing no day certain
is directed for beginning the Sessions; if they will constantly binde
themselues to the former sense, when those dayes fall on the Friday,
they ought to call it for the morrow following. The Iudges of the
circuits Oracle, to which the Commission of the peace referreth the
Iustices Quaeres, hath resolued, that neyther of these wayes tendeth
to any breach of the lawe.
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