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Leather.
' sufficient for state, largeness, or growth, to be tried by the Tryers,
upon
' pain to forfeit it. |
Chap. 59. |
§. 6.
Searching.
Skins |
' None shall put to sale any Tanned Leather, Red,
and unwrought,
' before it be searced and sealed in some open Fair or Market; nor until
' it be searched and sealed according to that Statute, upon pain to forfeit
' for every Hide or piece of Leather 6 s. 8 d.
And for every dozen
' of Calves skins, and Sheeps skins, 3 s. 4 d. and of the
same Hide, Skins,
' and Leather, or the value. But this Clause touching, search and
sealing of
' such Skins, is repealed by 4 Jac. 6. So as the same be made
into Wares
' in England. |
1 Jac. 22.
4 Jac. 6. |
§. 7.
Not well
tanned, or
dried. |
' If any Tanner put to Sale any Leather, nor sufficiently
Tanned or
' Dried, and the same be found so by the Tryers, he shall forfeit the whole
' Hide, Back, or Skin, if it be wholly defective, or if part defective,
that
' part to be cut by the Tryers. |
1 Jac. 22. |
| Undue Tanning. |
' No persons shall set their Fats in Tan-hills,
or other places where
' the Woozes or Leather may take any unkind heat. |
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' Nor put any Leather in hot or warm Woozes. |
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' Nor Tan any Hide, Calves-skin, or Sheeps skin,
with warm or hot
' Woozes; or if he do, shall forfeit for every such offence 10 l. and
shall
' stand in the Pillory three Market days, in a Market Town next the
' place of the offence. |
1 Jac. 22. |
§. 8.
Forestalling. |
' The forfeiture of Forestalling of Oaken Bark.
Se tit. Forestalling. |
1 Jac. 22. |
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' None using the Trade of a Currier, shall use the
Trade of a Butcher,
' Tanner, Cordwainer, or other Trade using cutting of Leather, upon pain
' to forfeit 6 s. 8 d. for every Hide or Skin he shall curry. |
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§. 9.
Currier,
Place. |
' No Currier shall curry any Leather in any other
then his own House,
' situate in a Corporate or Market Town. |
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' Nor Cury any Leather, not sufficiently Tanned
and dried, after
' its wet season: nor in its wet season, he shall not use Urine,
or other
' deceitful thing to corrupt or hurt it. |
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| Materials. |
' Nor Curry any Leather meet for Utter-Sole-Leather,
but with hard
' Tallow, and of that, as much as the Leather will receive. |
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' Nor Curry any Leather meet for Upper Leather,
but with good
' Stuff, Fresh, and not Salt, through liquored till it will receive no
' more. |
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' Nor burn or scald any Hide or Leather in the Currying. |
1 Jac. 22. |
| Gash. |
' Nor have any Leather too thin, nor gash or hurt
it in the Shaving,
' or by other means, but shall work it sufficiently in all respects. |
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| Forfeits. |
' Upon pain to forfeit for every offence (except
in Gashing, and
' Shaving) 6 s. 8 d. And the value of every Hide
and Skin so marred,
' by his evil workmanship' and for every offence by Gashing and Shaving,
' double so much to the party grieved, as the Leather shall be impaired
' by the Judgment of the Wardens of the Curriers, and Wardens
' of the Company whereof the Party grieved shall be. |
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§. 10.
London,
Cordwainer. |
' No Cordwainer or other dwelling in London,
or within three miles,
' using wet Leather, shall put any Leather to be Curried, but to one free
' of the Company of Curriers of London, upon pain to forfeit the
Leather,
' nor use any Curried Leather before the same be searched and allowed
' by the Curriers, and sealed. |
1 Jac. 22. |
| Speed. |
' Every Currier shall carry Leather, brought to
him, within eight
' days in Summer, and sixteen days in Winter, the party bringing good
' Stuff for liquoring it, and that in the presence of the party bringing
it,
' if he or his servant will be present, and shall not refuse to Curry it;
upon |
1 Jac. 22. |
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