This statute has been, and is in force as to writs of error, see 3 Co. p. 4.  As to attaints, see the
note on 3 Edw. 1, Ch. 38.
 

    This statute must be considered as having been in force in the province, connected with that of 15
Rich. 2, Ch. 3, respecting the admiralty jurisdiction.  See the note on that statute.

CHAP. 9.  There shall be but one weight and one measure throughout the realm,
    saving in the county of Lancaster.--The weight of wool and the refuse thereof.
    (First part.)

    See the note on 9 Hen. 3, Ch. 9.
 

    See the note on 5 Rich. 2, Stat. 1, Ch. 8.  That statute gave no speedy remedy; by this it was provided,
that on complaint to the justices of peace, or any of them, they should take sufficient power of
the county, and go to the place; and the persons holding by force after such entry were to be imprisoned.
For the form of proceeding under this and the other statutes, see 2 Harris' Entries 59 to 66.
This statute appears to be included in the letter from S. Chase, before referred to.

    This statute was certainly in force in the province, and may be proper to be incorporated, for the
reasons that will be hereafter mentioned.  Among the thirty-six bills read, but not passed in 1638,
there was one for erecting a court of admiralty, which was to have the same powers as the high court
of admiralty in England; and some other special provisions were made therein.  No other act of
assembly was passed for the establishment of such courts, but they were established by the governors,
under the powers granted by their commissions, and the proceeded according to the laws of
England, and the rules of the admiralty court therein.  In 1694, there was a petition from I. H.
commander of the ship Providence, stating that he took a French vessel, which was condemned by
the court of vice-admiralty here, and that there was no receiver for the king.  " Order to set the
condemnation aside for want of a marshall and a register, and a trial to be had by a court to be appointed
according to governor Nicholson's commission."
    This statute declared, that of all manner of contracts, pleas and quarrels, and of all other things
rising within the bodies of the counties, as well by land as by water, and also of wreck of the sea,
the Admiral's court should have no manner of power, &c. of course it must have extended to the
province, for the regulation of the Admiralty courts therein, and establishing their boundaries.  See
3 Bl. Com. 106.