Clapboard Act 1592
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1592 c. 11 |
(35 Eliz. 1) C A P. XI.
'WHEREAS of late Years Timber is greatly decayed and consumed within this Realm, the Want thereof is greatly to be feared, and speedily to be provided for, and for as much as there is great Occasion of spending and consuming thereof, by selling of great Quantities of Timber, and converting the same into Cloven-board for the making of Cask, which is usually transported out of the Realm into the Parts beyond the Seas: (2) And forasmuch also as Wine-Cask brought into this Realm, is very serviceable, as well for her Majesty's Houshold and Navy, in Time of her Highness Service, for victualling of her Highness Ships, and also for victualling of Merchant Ships, and a great Cause of sparing Timber within this Realm:'
II Wine-Cask shall not be transported but for certain Purposes.
II. Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all and every Person and Persons, which shall after the Feast of the Nativity of St.John Baptist next ensuing, ship, carry or transport any Beer into the Parts beyond the Seas, to be sold or exchanged for other Merchandize, shall (if he be a Stranger, then) before the same Transporting, (if he be a Subject born, then) either before the same Transporting, or within four Months after, bring or cause to be brought into this Realm, from the Parts beyond the Seas, for every six Tuns of Beer, two hundred of Clap-board fit for to make Cask of, to contain in Length three Foot and two Inches at the least, or else the same Cask again, or so much other good and sweet Cask in Quantity, and the same to be entred at the Customhouse without any colouring; (2) or if the same Transporting shall be into the Realm of Ireland , then to bring in, in Manner and Form as aforesaid, so much of the Shaffold-board in Quantity as the said Clap-board amounteth unto.
III. And also be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Stranger born shall after the last Day ofJune , which shall be in the Year of our Lord one thousand five hundred ninety-four, ship, carry or transport beyond the Seas...
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