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²That the writer insert his name in the body of the writ

Our sovereign lord and estates of this present parliament, understanding perfectly that fraud increases daily within this realm and especially by the writing of the bodies of the contracts, charters, obligations, reversions, assignations and all other writs and evidents by the handwriting of such persons as are not commonly known and are not common notaries, nor possesses no common office as writers within this realm, and if the writer was known the same would give great light to the trial of the truth of the falsity of the said writ and evident, therefore his highness, with advice of the said estates in parliament, decrees and declares that all original charters, contracts, obligations, reversions, assignations and all other writs and evidents to be made hereafter shall make special mention in the latter part thereof, before the inserting of the witnesses therein, of the name, surname and particular remaining place, diocese and other denomination of the writer of the body of the foresaid original writs and evidents; otherwise, the same to make no faith in judgement nor outwith in time coming; and to begin upon 1 November next to come.