Worsted Yarn Act 1547
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
(1 Edw. 6) C A P. VI.
'W H E R E the greatest and almost the whole Number of the poor Inhabitants of the County ofNorfolk and the City of Norwich be and have been heretofore for a great Time maintained and gotten their Living by Spinning of the Wools growing in the said County of Norfolk , upon the Rock into Yarn, and by all the said Time have used to have their Access to common Markets within the said County and City, to buy their Wools there to be Spun, as is aforesaid, of certain Persons called Retailers of the same Wools, by eight Penny worth or twelve Penny worth at one Time, or thereabout, and have not used to buy, ne can buy their said Wools of the Breeders of the same Wools by such small Parcels, as well for that the said Breeders of the said Wools will not sell their said Wools by such small Parcels, as also for that the most Part of the said poor Persons dwell far off from the said Breeders of the said Wools: (2) Andforasmuch as by an Act of Parliament made in the thirty-seventh Year of the Reign of the noble King of famous Memory,Henry the Eight, all Persons be restrained upon a great Pain to buy any Wools to sell the same again, except Merchants of the Staple, for the only Provision of the Staple, as in the said Act, among other Things, more at large it is contained: Therefore the said Retailers of Wools in the said County of Norfolk and City of Norwich , which heretofore have used to buy Wools and to sell the again to the said poor Persons in overt Markets as is aforesaid, have, since the making of the said Statute, in eschewing the Danger and Pain provided by the same, ceased and lest to buy the said Wools, for the Relief of the said poor Persons: By Reason whereof, the same poor Persons inhabiting within the said County of Norfolk and City of Norwich , that have heretofore been Spinners, and maintained by Spinning of the said Wools, be now unoccupied and unset to work, and a great Number of them enforced to beg for lack of Work, to the utter Decay and Ruin of the poor People of the said County and City, and the Inhabitants thereof unless some Kennedy be therein provided.' (3) In Consideration whereof, it may please the King's most Royal Majesty, by the Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliamentassembled, and by Authority of the same, That all and every Person and Persons duelling and...
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