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An ordinance to prohibite the transporting of wooll, and fullers-earth; Proceedings. 1647-01-19
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England and Wales. Parliament.
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Die Mercurii 19 Ianuarii 1647. An ORDINANCE to prohibite the transporting of Wooll and Fullers-Earth BE it Ordained by the Lords and Commons That it shall not be lawfull for any person or persons to lade ship or carry in any Ship Barge Boat or other Vessell or otherwise any Wooll of the growth of the Kingdomes of England or Ireland or Dominion of Wales or any woollen yarne woollen-flox wooll-fell Fullers-earth Clay Tobacco-pipe clay or any other earth or clay which may be used in the Art of Fulling of intent to transport or carry the same into any place or places of the parts beyond the Seas or into the Realme of Scotland by Land or by Sea or to carry the same to any Ship or other Vessell whatsoever to be transported upon the paines and forfeitures hereafter ensuing that is to say Vpon the paine of the forfeiture of the said wools woollen-yarne woollen-flox wooll-fell and earth or clay so laden shipped carryed or transported and three shillings for every pound of such wooll yarne flox and earth or clay And for every pound weight of the said earth or clay three shillings to be forfeited by the Owner or Owners thereof And also the Owner of the said Ships or Vessels knowing of such offence to forfeit all their Interest in the said Ships or Vessels with all their Apparell and furniture to them and every of them belonging And the Master and Mariners knowing of such offence to forfeit all their goods and chattels and to have imprisonment by the space of one whole yeare without bayle or main-prise And further that if any such wooll woollen-yarne woollen-flox wooll-fell or any of the said earth or clay be laid in any place whatsoever with intention to transport or that the same should be transported beyond Sea or with intention to transport or convey the same or that the same should be transported or conveyed to any other Port or place by Sea in England or Wales and shall not in such case where the same is to be transported or conveyed by Sea to any other place in ENGLAND or WALES as aforesaid enter or cause to be entred sufficient Obligation with the Customer and Comptroller of the Port to such place belonging or as is next unto the same for the true delivery thereof at some other place of this Realme That then the said Wools Woollen-yarne woollen-flox wooll-fels and earth or clay and three shillings for every pound weight of the said earth or clay shal be forfeted by the owners thereof And it is further Ordained That if any Merchant or any other person or persons shall transport or cause to be transported any of the said earth or clay wooll woollen-yarne or woollen-flox or wooll-fels contrary to the intent of this Ordinance That then he shall be disabled for requiring any Debt or Accompt of any Factor or others for or concerning any Debt or Estate properly belonging to such Merchant and Offendor to his owne use And if any Owner of the Land where such clay or earth is digged or gotten shall be privy unto or know of such transportation by any person or persons and shall not discover the same unto some Iustice or Iustices of the Peace within three months of such his knowledge he shall for every such offence forfeit five hundred pounds of lawfull money of England And if such Iustice of Peace to whom such discovery shall be made shall not certifie the same under his hand and seale to the Barons of the Exchequer or any one of them within three moneths following he shall for every such offence forfeit one hundred pounds of like lawfull money And it is further Ordained That all and every Person Owner or Occupier of any grounds where such earth or clay as aforesaid shall be digged or taken or Owner or Occupier of such earth or clay that shall sell or dispose of the same shall keep one or more Books wherein he shall enter from time to time the quantities of all such clay or earth by him sold the name or names of the person or persons to whom such sale shall be made and the place of his habitation or aboad and shall once in six moneths give a note in writing of all such Fullers earth or clay sold or disposed to the Iustices of the Peace or any one of them next or neare adjoyning to the place where such earth or clay is or shall be at the time of the sale or disposition thereof on paine to forfeit for every hundred weight the summe of twenty shillings of lawfull money of England for every such neglect and that a sufficient Person of the profession of a Clothier or Fuller of the county of Kent shall by the Barons of the Exchequer be appointed to keep a Book of the entries of the true quantities of such earth or clay measured and received from the Pits or Store-houses thereof and to certify such his Booke halfe yearely into the Court of Exchequer upon Oath and to have such summe or summs of money as the said Committee of the Navie and Customes shall thinke fit not exceeding six pence for every load containing twenty two bushells of such earth and clay so received by the Receiver thereof and that one half or moyty of all the forfeitures before mentioned shall be paid to the Commissioners and Collectors of the Customes for the time being for the use of the Navy or to such use as the said Houses of Parliament shall order or appoint and the other moyety thereof to be to such person and persons as shall seize or sue for the same by Bill Plaint or Information in the Court of Exchequer and the Goods so seized to be by the Seisor from time to time Registred with the Officer thereunto appointed in the Custome-house of London And it is further Ordered by the said Lords and Commons That the Barons of the said Court of Exchequer and all other the Officers and Ministers of the said Court respectively for the time being doe and shall and are hereby authorized and required to receive and proceed to Iudgement upon such Bill Plaint or Information according to the course of that Court heretofore used for the recovery of forfeited Goods for non payment of Tonnage and Poundage when the same were granted by Act of Parliament And that the Barons of the said Court of Exchequer his Majesties Atturney or Solicitor Generall or any three of them whereof the said Atturney or Solicitor Generall to be one shall and may compound for the part of the said forfeiture appointed to the use of the Navie as aforesaid and upon such composition made the said Court of Exchequer to give Iudgement for the discharge of such forfeiture against his Majesty and that any of the Barons of the said Exchequer shall and may give Licence to such Informer to compound with the Defendant for the said other part of the said forfeiture Die Mercurii 19 Ianuarii 1647. ORdered by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament That no Wooll of the growth of Ireland be transported in any Ship or Vessell into any parts out of that Kingdome except into the Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales upon any Warrant or pretence whatsoever upon paine of forfeiture of the said Wools and that the Commissioners and Officers of the Customes and Ports in that Kingdome doe take effectuall care and imploy their diligence that this Order be duely observed and that they be very carefull to take good security to the double value of the Wools shipped That the transporters will unship and deliver the said Wools in some Port of the Kingdome of England or Dominion of Wales and that they will not transport the said Wools into any other part of place whatsoever and that they doe bring Certificate that they have delivered the same accordingly and that the Governors of the Provinces and Commanders in chiefe of the Forces in that Kingdome doe give order and charge and take care That all the Officers of Ports whom it may concerne doe duely observe this Order Ioh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum