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The king's most excellent majestie, being carefull that the benefite of the law in the administration of justice be frie to all his majesties' good subjects, and considering the prejudices many have formerly sustained in the stoping of the course of justice by the too frequent granting of protections against personall execution; therfor and for preventing of the lyke for the future, his majestie, with advice and consent of his estates in parliament, doth ratifie, approve and renew all former acts of parliament made against the granting of protections, and dischargeth the lords of his majesties' privy councill, session and exchequer to grant protections to any persons against personall execution, certfieing all such as shall grant the same, they shall be lyable for the debt against which they grant the protection, and all execution shall passe against the havers therof as if the same had not been granted. It is alwayes heirby declared that, notwithstanding heirof it shall be free to the lords of his majesties' privy councill, lords of session and exchequer, and to the justice generall and his deputs, when any persone or persones are summoned and appointed to appeare personally befor them, to give order now as they have been in use formerly to doe, for suspending personall execution against the persons so summoned and appointed to appeare for such few dayes as they may come to give their appearance, and dureing their necessar stay and some few dayes for their returne, and that according as the saids respective judges shall find reason upon the particular applications to be made therupon.