Manufacture of Cables, etc. Act 1529
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1529 c. 12 |
| Year | 1529 |
(21 Hen. 8) C A P. XII.
'MOST humbly beseeching your Highness, the Bailiffs, Burgesses, and other the Inhabitants of your Town and Borough ofBurport , within your County of Dorset , that where they, out of Time that no Man's Mind is to the contrary, have used and exercised to make, within the same, the most Part of all the great Cables, Halsers, Ropes, and all other Tackling, as well for your Royal Ships and Navy, as for the most Part of all other Ships within this Realm, by reason whereof your said Town was right well maintained, and inhabited, your Highness and your Subjects right well served, until now of late many, divers, and evil-disposed Persons, intending the Destruction of your said Town, for their private Lucre, and Advantage, have withdrawn themselves into the Country in divers Places, there taking Ferms, and using Husbandry out of the said Town, and also daily resort to your said Town to buy, and provide Hemp, and thereof make Cables, Ropes, Halsers, Traces, Halters, and other Tackle, which Cables, Ropes, Halsers, Traces, Halters, and other Tackle, been by the said Persons slightly and deceivably made, by reason whereof not only the Buyers of the same been continually thereby deceived, but also the Prices of the said Cables, Halsers, Traces, Halters, and other Tackle thereby greatly inhaunced, and your said Town or Borough, by Means thereof, is like utterly to be decayed, ruined, and desolated, if speedy Remedy be not by your Highness in that Case provided.
II Hemp growing within 5 Miles of Burport shall be sold there.
II. Be it therefore enacted by your Highness, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That no Manner Person or Persons dwelling or inhabiting within the Distance of Five Miles from the said Town or Borough ofBurport , shall from henceforth sell, or cause to be sold out of the Market holden and to be holden within the same Town or Borough of Burport , to any Person or Persons, any Hemp, which shall happen to grow within the said Five Miles in Distance from the said Town or Borough, upon Pain of Forfeiture of the said Hemp so sold, or to be sold, in any Place or...
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