An Essay to the Restoring of our Decayed Trade.: Wherein is Described, the Smuglers, Lawyers, and Officers Frauds &c.Trevers, Joseph
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An Essay to the Restoring of our Decayed Trade.: Wherein is Described, the Smuglers, Lawyers, and Officers Frauds &c.
Trevers, Joseph
Great Britain -- Commerce -- Early works to 1800; Wool industry -- England -- Early works to 1800
Then the Staple aforesaid was removed from _Callis_, and clearly put
down, 43. _Edw._ 3. _Cap._ 1. and the Staples appointed and fixed in
_England_, at the places following: _Viz._ at _Newcastle_, _Kingston
+upon+ Hull_, _St. Buttolphs Boston_, _Yarmouth_, _Quinborough_,
_Westminster_, _Chester_, _Winchester_, _Exeter_, and _Bristol_, and
the Staples of _Ireland_ and _Wales_, were to be kept where first they
were ordained, and several other good clauses were added concerning the
Regulation of the Staples, as may be seen at large, in the Statute of
the Staple, 27. _Edw._ 3.
[Sidenote: _Sta. 8 Hen. 5. cap. 2_]
[Sidenote: _Stat. 8. He. 5. cap. 2._]
[Sidenote: _Stat. 1. Ed. 6. cap. 6._]
[Sidenote: _Stat. 2._]
[Sidenote: _Stat. 3. Ed. 4. cap. 5._]
It was there appointed, that all Merchants, Strangers, that bought
wooll in _England_, to conveigh to the _West_ parts, or elsewhere, that
did not bring them to some of the Staples to be sold, were to bring to
the Master of the Kings Mint, for every sack of Wooll which contained
ninety four pounds, an ounce of Gold Bulloin, or the value in silver
Bulloin, on pain to forfeit such Wooll, or the value thereof to the
King absolutely. I also find that great care was taken that no persons
in _Norfolke_ should buy wooll there, and in divers other Countries
thereabout, for fear they should Transport it, but only those Merchants
which carried it to the Staples, or those which did convert it into
Yarn, Hats, Girdles or Cloth: And that such woolls as were bought in
_Norfolke_, and _Norwich_, and those Countries, were to be sold and
retailed in the open Market, if not carryed to the Staples: And that
those in _Hallifax_, were to sell what Wooll they bought to those poor
people in the town, or parts adjacent; who to their knowledge did work
up the same into Cloth, or Yarn: and if the Wooll driver did sell his
wooll out of _Hallifax_, or if any of the town bought to sell again,
unwrought, into yarn, or cloth, every such Offender did forfeit their
double value of the wooll, so sold, or uttered, the one half to the
King, and the other half to the Prosecutor, and the Justices of the
Peace, in their Sessions, were to determine the same. Many sorts of
wares and Merchandises were prohibited to be brought into the Realm,
ready wrought, which were wrought and made by Hand-crafts-men.
[Sidenote: _Stat. 14. cap. 121. 13._]
That all forreign Bone lace, cuttings, Embroydery, French Bandstrings,
buttons, needle-work, &c. were prohibited to be brought into this Realm.
[Sidenote: _Stat. 12. cap. 2. 32._]
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