No. CX. 3 Geo. IV. c. 41. 7 E. 4. c. 3. Woollen Yarn. 17 E. 4. c. 1. Exporting Money. So much of preceding Sta tutes as is re cited, repealed accordingly, and shall cease and determine. Except as they of any such wool, woolfells, morling, or shorling, respectively;-and also, So much of a statute made in the seventh year of the reign of the said King Edward the Fourth, whereby it is ordained and established, "That no person denizen or stranger shall carry or cause to be carried into any parts beyond the sea any woollen yarn or cloth not fulled upon the penalties and forfeitures in the said Act mentioned;"-and also, So much of a statute made in the seventeenth year of the reign of the said King Edward the Fourth, whereby it is ordained, That no person shall carry or cause to be carried out of the realm any manner of money of the coin of the realm nor money of the coin of any other realms lands or seignories nor no plate, vessel, mass, bullion, nor jewels of gold wrought or unwrought or of silver, without the King's licence upon pain of felony ;-and, So much and such parts of the said several statutes as are herein-before recited and set forth are hereby accordingly repealed, and from and after the passing of this Act shall cease and determine and be of no force effect or validity whatsoever, any thing in the said recited statutes or any of them or in any statute or statutes or Act or Acts for continuing or making perpetual or amending of the said statutes or any of them or any part thereof or any law usage or custom whatsoever to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding except only so far as the said statutes or any of them repeal any former statute or statutes or any part thereof; and which said statute or statutes or any part thereof so repealed shall remain and continue repealed to all intents and purposes whatsoever. repeal former 3 H. 7. c. 12. 3 H. 8. c. 3. 3 H. 8. c. 7. Cloths unshorn. (Irish Acts.) 13 H. 8. c.2. & IV. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act the several Acts herein-after mentioned, relating to the exportation of goods wares and merchandize or so much and such parts of any of them as are herein-after specified shall be repealed; (that is to say), An Act made in the third year of the reign of King Henry the Seventh, intituled An Act that no Stranger or Denizen shall carry any Woollen Cloths out of this Realm before they be barbed rowed and shorne;—and also, an Act made in the eleventh year of the reign of the said King Henry the Seventh, intituled An Act against transporting of Horses and Mares beyond the Seas;-and also, So much of an Act made in the third year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled An Act concerning shooting in Long Bous, whereby it is enacted or provided, "That no stranger born out of the King's obeysance not being denizen shall not convey nor do to be conveyed into any parts out of the King's obeysance any long bows arrows or shafts without the King's especial licence, upon pain of forfeiture of the same and upon pain of imprisonment;"-and also, an Act made in the third year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled An Act against carrying Cloths over Sea unshorn;-and also, two Acts made in the Parliament of Ireland in the thirteenth and twenty-eighth years of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, to prevent the lading or exporting of wools and flocks; and also an Act made in the Parlia ment holden in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of the reign of the said King Henry the Eighth, intituled The Act concerning the conveying transporting and carrying of Broad White Woollen Cloths out of this realm; and also, So much of an Act made in the Parliament holden in the said fourteenth and fifteenth years of the reign of the said King Henry the Eighth, intituled The Act concerning the Dressing of Worsteads Sayes and Stamins for the Town of Great Yarmouth, whereby it is enacted, "That no person or persons convey or transport into any of the parts beyond the sea any manner of cloths of worsteds before the same cloths be shorn, dyed, coloured, and calendered, upon pain of forfeiting the value 21 H. 8, c. 10, thereof;"-and also, the whole of an Act made in the twenty-first year of the reign of the said King Henry the Eighth, intituled An Act against the carrying of Laten Brass and such metal mixed beyond the Sen-and also, an Act made in the twenty-second year of the reign of the said King Henry the Eighth, intituled An Act against Conveyance of Horses out of this Realm;-and also, So much of an Act made in the twenty§ ult. Victuals not to he exported unless by Licence, 28 H. 8. c. 17. 14 & 15 H. 8. c. 1. Cloths. 14 & 15 H. 8. c. 3. § ult. Worsted Cloths. Metal. 22 H. 8. c. 7. Horses. 25 H. 8. c. 2. No. CX. 3 Geo. IV. c. 41. 27 H. 8. c. 14. Leather. 33 H. 8. c. 9. Metal. 33 H. 8. c. 9. $7. Bow not to be exported by Aliens. § 2. Yarn. 1 E. 6. c. 5. Horses. fifth year of the reign of the said King Henry the Eighth, intituled An Act of Proclamation to be made concerning Victuals, whereby it is enacted, "That no person or persons unless it be by licence under the King's great seal shall carry or convey or cause to be carried or conveyed, any beef, mutton, veal, pork, or any other victuals in the said Act mentioned, to any ports beyond the seas, except as in the said Act is excepted;"-and 26 H. 8. c. 16. also, So much of an Act made in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of Cloths. the said King Henry the Eighth, intituled An Act for making of Worsteds in the City of Norwich, and in the Towns of Lyn and Yarmouth, whereby Making perpeso much as is herein-before recited of the Act made in the fourteenth tual 14, 15 and fifteenth years of the said King Henry the Eighth, concerning the H. 8. c. 3. dressing of worsted sayes and stamins for the town of Great Yarmouth is made perpetual;—and also, another Act made in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled An Act concerning the Custom of Leather;--and also an Act made in the thirty-third year of the reign of the said King Henry the Eighth, intituled An Act concerning the Conveyance of Brass Latten and Bell Metal over the Sea;and also, So much of another Act made in the said thirty-third year of the reign of the said King Henry the Eighth, intituled An Act for Maincenance of Artillery and debarring of unlawful Games, whereby it is enacted "That no stranger born out of the King's obeysance not being denizen shall convey or do to be conveyed, give, sell, or exchange, into any parts out of the King's obeysance any long bows arrows or shafts without the King's especial licence, upon pain of forfeiture of the same and of imprisonment;"-and also, So much of an Act made in the said thirty- 33 H. 8. c. 16. third year of the reign of the said King Henry the Eighth, intituled Ån Act for Worsted Yarn in Norfolk, whereby any penalty or forfeiture is imposed on any person or persons who ship to carry or convey into the parts beyond the sea any yarn called worsted yarn not wrought or made in cloth, so such yarn be spun or made within the realm of England; and also, an Act made in the first year of the reign of King Edward the Sixth, intituled An Act that no Horses shall be conveyed out of this Realm and other the King's Dominions without Licence, or so much thereof as shall be in force immediately before the passing of this Act;-aud also, So much of an Act made in the said first year of the reign of the said King Edward the Sixth, intituled An Act for the Continuance of making of Worsted Yarn in Norfolk, whereby so much of the Act made in the thirty-third year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled An Act for Worsted Yarn in Norfolk, as is herein-before recited and set forth, is enacted to continue for ever;-and also, The whole of an Act made in the Parliament holden in the second and third years of the reign of King Edward the Sixth, intituled An Act for carrying of Bell Metal out of the Realm, or An Act against the carrying of Bell Metal out of the Realm ;and also, So much of an Act made in the Parliament holden in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of the said King Edward the Sixth, intituled An Act against Regrators of Tanned Leather, whereby it is enacted, "That no person or persons shall ship or cause to be shipped (to the intent to carry transport or convey over the sea, as merchandize to be sold or exchanged there) any shoes, boots, buskins, stertups, or slippers, upon pain to forfeit the same or the value thereof;"-and also, So much of an Act 1 M. st. 3. c. 8. made in the Parliament begun to be holden at Westminster on the second § 1. Leather. day of April, in the first year of the reign of Queen Mary, intituled An Act touching the Buying and Currying of Leather, whereby it is enacted or provided, "That curriers shoemakers and girdlers nor any person for them or for their use, shall buy any kind of tanned leather to sell again to any merchant or other stranger to be conveyed over the sea, nor shall send nor convey any leather beyond the sea, upon the forfeiture of all such leather so brought;"-and also, an Act made in the Parliament holden in the first and second years of the reign of King Philip and Queen Mary intituled An Act to restrain carrying of Corn Victuals and Wood over the Sea, so far as the same relates to victuals and wood;and also, an Act made in the fifth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled An Act against carrying of Sheep Skins and Pelts over the Sea VOL. II. **N 1 E. 6. c. 6. § 2. making perpetual 33 H. 8. c. 16. § 2. 2 & 3 E. 6. c. 37. Metal. 5, 6 E. 6. c. 15. § 5. Exporting Shoes, &c. 1, 2 P. & M. c.5. Provisions, Woods, &c. 5 El. c. 22. Sheep Skins. No. CX. 3 Geo. IV. c. 41. 8 El. c. 3. Live Sheep. 8 El. c. 6. Cloths. (Irish Acts.) 11 El. c. 10. 13 El. c. 2. not being Staple Ware, or so much of the said Act as shall be in force immediately before the passing of this Act;-and also, an Act made in the eighth year of the reign of the said Queen Elizabeth, intituled An Act against carrying over Sea Rams Lambs and other Sheep alive;—and also, another Act made in the said eighth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled An Act touching Cloth Workers and Cloths ready wrought to be shipped over the Sea;-and also, an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland in the eleventh year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled An Act for the staying of Wool Flocks and Tallow and other Necessaries within this Realm;-and also, an Act made in the said Parliament in the thirteenth year of Queen Elizabeth, for explaining the said Acts of the eleventh year of Queen Elizabeth;-and also, an Act made in the eighteenth Preventing Ex-year of the reign of the said Queen Elizabeth, intituled An Act against port of Wool. the transporting of Leather Tallow and Raw Hides out of the Realm ;--and also, an Act made in the thirty-fifth year of the reign of the said Queen Elizabeth, intituled An Act for the bringing in Clap Board from the Parts of beyond the Seas, and the restraining of transporting of Wine Casks for the sparing and preserving of Timber within this Realm;-and also, So much of an Act made in the third year of the reign of King James the First, intituled An Act for the Relief of such as lawfully use the Trade and Handicraft of Skinners, whereby it is enacted, "That no person or persons shall transport or carry beyond the seas nor cause to be transported or carried beyond the seas nor shall pack ship or lade to the intent to transport or carry beyond the seas any black coney skins of the breed of this realm, unless the same skins shall first be tanned and duly and perfectly wrought dressed and packed within this realm, by those that are artizans skinners or tanners unto the said artizans skinners, according to the science art and faculty of the said artizans skinners, upon pain of forfeiture of such skins or the value thereof;"-and also, the whole of another Act made in the said third year of the reign of the said King James the First, intituled An Act for the Transportation of Beer over the Sea: And the said several Acts before mentioned or so much and such 18 El. c. 9. Leather. 35 El. c. 11. 3 Ja. 1. c. 9. 3 Ja. 1. c. 11. Beer. Recited Acts repealed accordingly. Except as they repeal former Acts. Laws relating to the Staples become inopera tive. Certain Statutes and Ordinances, or Parts thereof, repealed, viz. parts of the said several Acts respectively as are herein-before respectively recited and set forth are hereby accordingly repealed, &c. Except only so far as, &c. V. And whereas divers laws, statutes, ordinances, and provisions, have been from time to time made relating to the staples or markets of wools, leather, woolfells, lead, tin, and other commodities of the realm, and to the places (within the realm and without) where such staples should be held and to which such staple commodities of the realm should be brought or carried for sale and exportation, and relating to the sale and purchase and export of such staple commodities and to the conduct of merchants strangers and others at such staples: And whereas such staples or markets have long ceased to be held, and the laws relating to the same have become inoperative and inapplicable to the trade in the said commodities, and it is therefore expedient that the said laws should be expressly repealed: Be it therefore enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act the several statutes and ordinances herein-after mentioned, and so much and such parts of such statutes and ordinances respectively as are herein-after specified and set forth relating to the said staples shall be repealed; that is to say, The whole of a statute or ordinance made in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of King Edward the Third, intituled or known by the name of The Statute of the Staple, or The Ordinance of the Staples, or by whatever name title or description the said statute or ordinance may have been or may be known intituled or described, except only so far as is herein-after specially excepted and 27 (or 28) E.3. provided for ;-and also, an ordinance made in the said twenty-seventh Ordinance for year (or in the twenty-eighth year) of the reign of the said King Edward Fees of the the Third, concerning the sums to be paid to the mayors and constables of the staples for their services; or so much of the said several statutes or ordinances as shall be in force and unrepealed immediately before the passing of this Act;-and also, So much of a statute made in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of the said King Edward the Third, Statute or Ordinance of the Staples. 27 E. 3. st. 2. Staple. 28 E. 3. c. 13. Confirming the Ordinances. No. CX. 3 Geo. IV. c. 41. Packing of ples. 28 E. 3. c. 14. Showing of Wocls. 28 E. 3. c. 15. Bounds of the Staples. 31 E. 3. c. 7. Punishing Exportation of Wool, &c., contrary to the Staple Laws. cc. 8. 9. Wools, &c. Exportation of 36 E. 3. st. 1. c. 7. Power of Mayors, &c., of the Staples. whereby it is accorded and established, "That all the ordinances made in the great council holden at Westminster the Monday next after the Feast of Saint Matthew the Apostle, then last past, together with certain declarations and additions made in the Parliament of the said twentyeighth year, should be firmly kept and holden for a statute to endure for ever;" and also, So much and such parts of the said statute made in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of the said King Edward the Third, whereby it is accorded and established, "That the warranty of packing of wools shall wholly be out, and that no man be holden to make such warranty unless it is by a covenant made by deed ensealed; and that Usage of Stano man other than a merchant denizen or alien shall be charged by the laws and usages of the staple until they be declared in Parliament;"and also, So much of the said last-mentioned statute as relates to the showing of wools at the staple or within three miles about the staple or to the bounds of the staple of Westminster or in other cities or towns;and also, So much of a statute made in the thirty-first year of the reign of the said King Edward the Third, whereby it is accorded and established, "That the King assign his Justices to inquire hear and determine of those that have carried wools leather and woolfells to the parts beyond the seas, and thereof have made covin and excess and otherwise attempted against the ordinances and the form of the statute of the staple;" -and also, So much of the said last-mentioned statute as relates to the exportation of wools leather and woolfells and to the refuse of wools, and to the bringing wools fells and leather to the staple or to the ports ordained for the staple or to the lodging showing or selling of wools within three miles of the staple, or to the prolonging the term for exportation of wools;-and also, So much of a statute made in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of the said King Edward the Third as relates to the cognizance of debts covenants and contracts and other pleas touching merchandize before mayors and constables of the staples, and to the suing by merchants aliens of their plaints and quarrels before the mayor of the staple, and to the power of the mayor of the staple to take recognizances of debt;-and also, So much of a statute made in the thirtyeighth year of the reign of the said King Edward the Third, whereby it is accorded and assented, "That the staple shall be in England, and that the statute of the staple made in the seven-and-twentieth year of the reign of the said King Edward the Third, with the declarations additions and modifications thereof made be holden and kept notwithstanding any grant licence or other statute or ordinance made afterward;"-and also, So much of a statute made in the forty-third year of the reign of the said King Edward the Third, as relates to abolishing the staple at Calais, and as directs that the staple of wools woolfells and leather shall be holden in certain places in England Wales and Ireland; and as relates to the weighing sealing cocketing and customing of wools woolfells and leather at the said staples before the said wools woolfells or leather shall pass out of the realm, and as relates to the carrying wools woolfells and leather out of the realm by aliens and not by denizens, and as imposes or inflicts any forfeiture or penalty on such exportation by denizens;-and also, So much of a statute made in the Parliament holden at Gloucester in the second year of the reign of King Richard the Second, whereby any saving is made for the ordinances made befure that time of the staple of Calais, to be holden in their force and virtue; and also, So much of the said last-mentioned statute as relates to merchants of Genoa, Venice, Catalonia, Arragon, and of other lands realms and countries towards the west, carrying wools, leather, woolfells, lead, tin, and other merchandizes of the staple into their country towards the west, paying the customs subsidies and duties, and finding the surety in the said Act mentioned;-and also, So much of a statute made in the twelfth year of the reign of King Richard the Second, whereby it is ordained and assented, "That the staple be removed from Middleburgh to Calais;"-and also, So much of a statute made in the fourteenth year of the reign of King Richard the Second, whereby it is ordained and established, "That the staple be removed from Calais into England, and 38 E. 3. st. 1. 43 E. 3. c. 1. Staples for Wool, and exporting of Wool by Aliens. 2 R. 2. st. 1. c.1. Saving for Ordinances of Staple at Calais. 2R. 2. st. 1.c.3. Merchants of Genoa, &c., exporting Staple Goods. 12 R. 2. c. 16. Staple at Calais. 14 R. 2, c. 1. Staple Towns in England. No. CX. 3 Geo. IV. c. 41. 14 R. 2. c. 3. 14 R. 2. c. 5. Exporting Staple Goods by Aliens. 15 R. 2. c. 9. 21 R. 2. c. 17. Exporting Staple Goods. 2 H. 5. st. 2. c. 6. Staple at Calais. that it be holden in the places contained in the statute of the staple made in the seven-and-twentieth year of the said King's grandfather, and in none other places; and that the said statute be holden and kept and duly executed in all points, with the additions in the said statute of the fourteenth year of King Richard the Second, notwithstanding any declaration or statute made to the contrary;"—and also, So much of the Officers of the said statute of the fourteenth year of the reign of King Richard the Staple. Second, whereby it is ordained and established,That in every port and place where the staple shall be, the mayors, constables, brokers, and all other officers and ministers of the staple shall be sworn first to the King and afterwards to the staple;"-and also, So much of the said last-mentioned statute, whereby it is ordained and established, “That no denizen carry wools, leather, woolfells, nor lead, out of the realm of England to the parts beyond the sea, upon pain of forfeiture of the same, but only strangers ;"-and also, So much of the said last-mentioned statute as Recognizances. relates to recognizances of debts made before or taken or received by any mayor of the staple, and to any penalty in respect of such recognizance taken contrary to the statute of the staple; and also, So much of a statute made in the twenty-first year of the reign of the said King Richard the Second as relates to the exportation of wools, leather, woolfells, tin, and lead, to any other place than to the staple at Calais;-and also, So much of a statute made in the second year of the reign of King Henry the Fifth, in a Parliament holden at Westminster the Monday next after the octaves of Saint Martin, whereby an ordinance made in the first year of the reign of King Henry the Fourth, relating to the staple of wools, leather, woolfells, lead, and tin, at Calais was confirmed; and whereby it was ordained, "That no wools, fells, leather, lead, or tin, nor none other merchandize of the staple should be sent or carried to any parts beyond the sea, unless they were first brought to the said staple at Calais after the form of the said ordinance, upon the penalties and under the regulations in the said last recited statute mentioned and provided; and also, So much of a statute made in the second year of Staple at Calais. the reign of King Henry the Sixth, whereby it was ordained and established, "That any statutes or ordinances relating to the staple at Calais before then made and not repealed, should be holden and kept and put in due execution; and that the whole repair of wools, woolfells, leather, lead, tin, whole or molten called shottenˇtin, and all other merchandizes pertaining to the staple passing out of the realm of England and of the countries of Wales and Ireland, should be at the said place of Calais and at none other place beyond the sea, as long as the said staple should be at the town of Calais, upon pain of forfeiture of the very value of the merchandizes which should pass elsewhere but to the parts towards the west named in the said statutes thereof made;”—and also, So much of the said last-mentioned statute as relates to licences for the shipping of wools fells and leather of Northumberland, Westmorland, Cumberland, and the Bishoprick of Durham;-and also, So much of the said lastmentioned statute whereby it is ordained and established, "That if any person carry or cause to be carried any wools or woolfells not customed out of the realm to other places than to the staple of Calais, he shall forfeit to the King the value of the merchandizes so shipped and his body to prison until he hath made and paid a fine and ransom; and that he that giveth knowledge to the Treasurer of England for the time being, and the trespasser for the same duly convict, shall have the fourth part of the forfeiture due to the King in this behalf;"-and also, So much of the statute made in the third year of the reign of the said King Henry the Sixth, whereby it is ordained and established, "That he that will carry butter and cheese to any other parts than to the staple at Calais, shall sue to the Chancellor of England for the time being to have a licence in this behalf; and that the same Chancellor have power to make to him such licences under the King's great seal, if it like him so to do by his discretion;"-and also, So much of a statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the said King Henry the Sixth, whereby it is ordained, "That every merchant as well denizen as alien, may freely 2 H. 6. c. 4. 3 H. 6. c. 4. Exporting Wools not customed. 3 H. 6. c. 4. 6 H. 6. c. 6. Exporting Sta. pie Goods from Melcombe. |