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Cloths, Trade, etc. Act 1464

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 2 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Statutes made at Westminster, Anno 4 Edw IV. and Anno Dom 1464 No Stranger shall buyEnglish Horns unwroughr, gathered or growing in London , or within Twenty-four Miles thereof. Certain Powers vested in the Wardens of the Horners of London .

(4 Edw. 4) C A P. VIII.

‘OUR Sovereign Lord the King perceiving by grievous Complaint made in thls Parliament by Menof Occupation of Horners, being enfranchised in the City ofLondon , how that People of strange Lands hath come into this Land and into divers Parts thereof, and hath bought by the Hands of their Hosts and Guides the great and chief Stuff of English Horns unwrought, of Tanners and Butchers, and carry the same over the Sea, and there employ the same in divers Works, to the great Damage of this Land, and to the final Prejudice of a great Number of Men being of the same Occupation:’ 'Hath, by the Advice and Assent of the said Lords, and at the Request of the said Commons, and by the Authority aforesaid, ordained, established, and enacted, That from the Feast ofEaster , which shall be in the Year of our Lord God MCCCCLXV . no manner Stranger, nor Alien, by himself, or by any other, shall buy any English Horns unwrought, of any Tanners, Butchers, or of any other Persons, gathered or growing within the said City, and xxiiii Miles on every Side of the said City next adjoining. And that no Englishman , nor other Person, sell any English Horns unwrought to any Stranger, or cause them to be sent over the Sea, so that the said Horners will buy the said Horns at like Price as they be at the Time of the making of this Act, upon Pain of Forfeiture of all such Horns so bought, sold, or sent. And that the Wardens of the said Mistery for the time being, by the said Authority, shall have full Power to search all Manner of Ware pertaining to their Mistery, wrought or to be wrought, in all Places within the said City of London , and xxiiii Miles on every Side next adjoining to the same City, and within the Fairs of Sturbridge and Ely, in whose...

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