| Chap. 59.
1 Jac. 22. |
Leather.
' No Butcher shall by himself, or any other, use
the Trade of a Tanner,
' while he useth the Trade of a Butcher, upon pain to forfeit 6 s. 8
d.
' per diem. |
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Butcher. |
| 1 Jac. 22. |
' No person shall Tan any Leather, nor take any
benefit or advantage
' by that Craft, except he have been brought up and instructed therein
' as an Apprentice, or Covenant, or Hired-servant, by seven years; and
' except the Wife, and such person as shall marry the Wife or Daughter
to
' whom he shall leave a Tan-house and Fats; and except such Son or Sons
' as have used the Trade four years, upon pain to lose the Leather or the
' just value thereof. |
§. 2.
Who may be
a Tanner. |
| 1 Jac. 22. |
' No person using the Trade of a Tanner shall use
any Trade exercised
' in the cutting of Leather, upon Pain to forfeit the Leather, or just
value.
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Trades. |
| 1 Jac. 22. |
' No person shall buy, contract for, bespeak any
Rough hide, or
' Calve-skin, except such person as may use the Trade of a Tanner, and
' shall Tan the same; or such persons as shall Tan the same, except salt
' Hides for Ships, upon pain to forfeit the Leather, or just value. |
Buying. |
| 1 Jac. 22. |
' No person shall forestal Hides, or buy them, but
in Fair or Market,
' except of the owner that killed for his own use, upon pain to forfeit
for
' every Hide 6 s. 8 d. |
§. 9.
Forestalling. |
| 1 Jac. 22. |
' No person may buy, contract for, or bespeak any
unwrought Leather,
' but he that will and shall work out the same into Wares, upon pain to
forfeit
' the Leather, or value thereof. |
§. 4.
Buying
Leather. |
H. 16 Car.
1 Cro.
425. |
' Upon which Clause a Case was M. 16 Car.
1. Cro. 425. Lib. meo inter
' Lodge & Holliwell, where a Currier bought Hides, and Curried
them
' with Oyl and Tallow, and things necessary; and after shaved and died
' them, and sold them to a Shoomaker, and it was adjudged, this was an
' offence against this Clause of the Statute, and is against the meaning
of
' 5 & 6 E. 6. 15 & 27 El. 16 & 5 El. 8.
For a Currier may not buy and sell by
' wholesale. |
Currier. |
| 1 Jac. 22. |
' Persons using to convert Leather into Wares may
buy at Leadenhal,
and Girdlers may sell their Necks and Shreds of Tanned Leather.
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Leadenhal
Girdlers. |
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' No person using Tanning, shall suffer a Hide or
Skin to lie until
' it be over limed. |
Lime. |
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' Nor shall put any Hide or Skin in Tanfats, before
the Lime be well
' sokened and wrought out of them. |
Tanner. |
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' Nor put or use any Stiff about the Tanning of
Leather, but Ash-Bark,
' Oak-Bark, Tapwort, Malt, Meal, Lime, Culver-dung, or Hen-dung. |
§. 5.
Material. |
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' Nor suffer Leather to lie or hang wet until it
be frozen. |
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' Nor dry or parch the Leather with heat of Fire,
or the Summer
' Sun. |
Parching. |
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' Nor shall Tan a putrefied or rotten Hide. |
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' Nor suffer the Hides for utter Sole-Leather to
lie in the Woozes any
' less than Twelve Moneths. |
Woozes. |
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' Nor the Hide for upper Leather, to lie in the
Woozes less than
' Nine Moneths. |
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' Nor shall negligently work their Leather in the
Woozes, but shall
' renew and strenghthen their Woozes as often as is requisite. Upon
' pain to forfeit every Hide of Ox, Steer, Bull, or Cow, otherwise
' wrought and put to sale, or the value. |
Forfeits. |
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' No persons shall raise with any mixtures any Hide
for Bark, bend
' Leather, Clouting Leather, or other Sole-Leather, except the Hide be |
Raising
with mixtures. |
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