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Upholsterers Act 1495

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1495 c. 19
Year1495
Statutes made at Westminster, Anno 11 Hen VII. and Anno Dom 1494 What Stuff Upholsters shall put in Bolsters, Feather-beds, and Pillows.

(11 Hen. 7) C A P. XIX.

'TO the Right Worshipful Commons in this present Parliament assembled, sheweth unto your discreet Wisdoms, the Wardens of the Fellowship of the Craft of Upholsters within the City ofLondon , (2) That whereas divers Persons within the Realm of England , out of the said City, make and do to be made unlawful and false Wares and Merchandises, to the great Rebuke and Slander of the said Craft, and also great Jeopardy, Loss, and Deceit to the King's Subjects, wherefore there is no sufficient Remedy purveyed, for so much as the same Wardens have no Power nor Authority to make due Search of such false deceivable Wares and Merchandises put to Sale out of the said City, as they have Power and Authority within the same City, as in Feather-beds, Bolsters, and Pillows, made of Two Manner of corrupt Stuffs, that is to say, of scalded Feathers and dry pulled Feathers together, and of Flocks and Feathers together, which is contagious for Man's Body to lie on, and also in Quilts, Mattresses, and Cushions, stuffed with Horse-hair, Fenn-down, Neats-hair, Deers-hair, and Goats-hair, which is wrought in Lime-fats, and by the Heat of Man's Body the Savour and Taste is so abominable and contagious, that many of the King's Subjects thereby been destroyed; (3) which deceitful making of the foresaid corrupt and unlawful Stuff is to the great Loss and impoverishing of the King's liege People, and also to the great Rebuke and Slander to the said Craft of Upholsters:' (4) Therefore may it please the King's Highness, by the Advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and his Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of...

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