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Importation, Purveyance, Pardon, etc. Act 1449

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 2 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1449 c. 5
Year1449
Statutes made at Westminster, Anno 28 Hen VI. and Anno Dom. 1449 The Penalty of the Officers of the Customs, which by Colour of their Offices shall distrain any Man's Ships or Goods.

(28 Hen. 6) C A P. V.

‘ITEM, Whereas divers Waterbailiffs, Searchers, Comptrollers of the Search, and other their Deputies and Servants within the Ports of this Realm, and specially within the Ports ofFowey, Plymouth, Dartmouth , and Pool, by Colour of their Offices daily do wrongfully take, by Constraint of Distresses, and Arrests upon the Ships, Barges, Balengers, and other Vessels, Goods, and Merchandises of the King's liege Merchants of this said Realm, and among all other upon the King's liege Merchants of Gascoign, Guien, Ireland, Guernsey , and Jersey, in their coming and going in the said Ports, great Charges and Impositions, that is to say, for every Piece of Crescloth iv. d. for every hundred of Canvas vi. d. for the Weight of every Ton of Iron xii. d. and sometime more, and likewise of all other Goods and Merchants of the said liege People, and other Merchandises of the King's Amity; (2) and by such wrongful Distresses, Arrests, Charges, and Impositions, they do discourage the said Merchants freely to come into this said Realm, and to return, contrary to all Law and Conscience, to the great Prejudice of our said Lord the King, in Loss of his Customs and Subsidies, and to the great Damage of the said Merchants and their Successors, unless due Remedy thereof be had in the same;’ '(3) by Advice, Assent, and Authority aforesaid, it is ordained and established, Thatthe said Merchants, and their Successors, and every of them, of all such Injuries, Distresses, Arrests, Charges, and Impositions afore recited, to be made to them, or any of them, as well by such Waterbailiff's, Searchers, and Comptrollers of the Search, as by Collectors of the said Customs and Subsidies, Comptrollers of the same, Surveyors of the Customs and Subsidies, and of the Search-packers, or any other Officers, or their Deputies or Servants by their Commandment, or any of them hereafter, may have thereupon a general Writ of...

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