The Steward may in any Case, and upon such Terms as to the Payment of Costs by either Party or otherwise as to him shall seem just, make Orders for granting Time to the Plaintiff or Defendant to proceed in the Prosecution or Defence of any Action, and also may from Time to Time adjourn any Great or Small Barmote Court, or the Hearing or further Hearing of any Cause or other Proceeding in the said Courts, or either of them, or before the Steward, in such Manner as to the Steward may seem fit; and when any Court is adjourned, the Grand Jurymen and other Jurymen who shall have been summoned to such Court shall attend at the adjourned Court without any further summoning, and shall be liable to the same Penalties for not attending at an adjourned Court as for not attending upon a Summons: Provided always, that the further Hearing of any Cause, or other Proceeding of which the Hearing shall have been commenced, and in which any Evidence shall have been given, shall not be adjourned for any longer Period than until the Day next after that on which the Adjournment takes place, or if such next Day beSunday, Good Friday, Christmas Day,or any Day appointed for a Public Fast or Thanksgiving, then until the Day next but One after that on which the Adjournment takes place; and at the Hearing or Trial of any Action, or on any other Proceeding under this Act, the Wives of the Parties shall be competent Witnesses, and compellable to give Evidence.