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B14597 A briefe of the Act for the reliefe of the marchants of the estaple. 1624 (1624) STC 16779.4; Interim Tract Supplement Guide Harl.7614[116]; ESTC S123629 571 2

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A Briefe of the Act for the reliefe of the Marchants of the Estaple FIrst that the Marchants of the Estaple of England are and haue been a verie auncient and famous Company of greate esteeme with strangers in other nations Profitable members of this Common wealth and in times past great aduauncers of the Kinges customes and reuenues Secondlie that the said Company aswel by diuers lawes and statutes of this realme as by letters patents from his highnes progenitors haue had power and authoritie to keepe the Estaple in England at Westminster and London and beyond the seas in France Flaunders Zealand Brabant and else where Thirdlie that the said Cōpany are enabled by diuers lawes Letters-patents to buy all sortes of woolls and woolfells within this Realme and to transported so much of the same woolls as are fit for the Staple and to sell the rest againe in England Fourthlie that the Kinges Maiestie and his Councell haue of late prohibited and whollie restrained the said Company from their auncient trade of shipping and transporting Fiftly that the Company being not suffred to transport haue put their woolls to sale in England to their great losse Sixtlie that many of the Company haue been sued and exceedinglie molested by Informers for selling the same woolls in England which they were absolutely commanded not to transport They humbly therefore desire That whensoeuer the said Company of Marchants of the Estaple of England are or shal be prohibited and restrayned from their accustomed shipping and transporting of their woolls and woolfells That then it maie bee lawfull for the said Company to sell their woolls and woolfells in England without penalty or forfeiture