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Wool Act 1429

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Statutes made at Westminster, Anno 8 Hen . VI. and Anno.Dom. 1429. What is requisite to be done in winding and packing of Wool. None shall force, clack, orbeard any Wool.

(8 Hen. 6) C A P. XXII.

‘ITEM, For as much as great Hinderance cometh to the King in his Customs and Subsidies by them that do clack and force the good Wools of the Realm, to carry them out of the same into strange Countries;’ '(2) it is ordained, That no Stranger shall cause to be forced, clacked, nor bearded, any manner of Woolls, to carry them out of the Realm, upon pain of Forfeiture of the same Woolls, with the double Value of the same, and of Imprisonment of his Body. (3) And that no Wool-packer shall make within the Realm, but good and due Packing; (4) and that no Man make any Inwinding within the Fleece of Woolls at the rolling up of his Woolls, nor put in the same Locks, Peltwooll, Tar, Stones, Sand, Earth, Grass, nor any Dirt; (5) and if any do, he that feeleth him grieved shall have his Action at the Common Law, of Trespass and Deceit.'

Note : this act is listed in the Chronological Table of Statutes as theWool Act...

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