The Privy Council (named), at Hampton Court, to [Hugh Bellot], bishop of Bangor, and their friends, [William Williams], the high sheriff and custos rotulorum of Caernarfonshire, Thomas Mosten, William Morryce and John Wynn. In many counties appointees as Justices of the Peace have not taken oaths such as are required by law before taking office. The Queen desires a speedy remedy. Because it is uncertain who has not taken the oath, let the recipients before 20 Nov. next or within fifteen days after the receipt of these letters arrange a sessions of the peace at the usual places and summon thereto all the justices living in the county. Let the custos rotulorum, the sheriff, and other justices appointed by a writ of dedimus potestatem require all the justices openly to take the accustomed oath for peace and the oath of supremacy, as prescribed by the statutes; they should then make due return of the writ under their lands, informing Chancery how many justices took their oaths in the sessions, so that the Chancellor may be informed without delay. If any of the justices at the sessions refuses or forbears to take the oaths, let the recipients inform the Chancellor and instruct the justice to leave office until he conforms and is newly commissioned. If any Justice does not respond to the summons to the sessions, let him be instructed to leave office until he takes the oaths, either in Chancery, or, upon giving a satisfactory explanation of his absence, in open sessions, from persons appointed by a writ of dedimus potestatem, and inform Chancery. Those failing to do this within twenty days after the sessions are to be removed from the commission of the peace. Because many are commonly in commission that are not resident in the county where they are named commissioners, let them be instructed to leave office until they are known to have taken oath in their county of residence or before the Chancellor. Some justices do not attend church or chapel or some other place where common prayer is used, and their wives living with their husbands and their sons, who live in the same house or the same county, are known to refuse to do so, contrary to the law and the vocation of those who ought to seek such offenders and reform them. Let all justices in the county be informed that any who do not attend church regularly, or whose wives living with them, or sons, over sixteen living in their father's house or in the same county, do not do so, as required by law, with the fathers knowing of their sons' recusance, should leave office, and be left out of the commission of peace during their recusance or that of their wives and sons. Let immediate notice be given thereof to every such justice in the county. Postscript: Let all named in the writ of dedimus potestatem first take the oath themselves openly at the sessions, one ministering to the other. Parliament is expected by the act from taking the oath of supremacy.