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§. 1. |
Wool. Words, News.
CHAP. CXIII.
Wool.
' WHere exporting of Wool is Felony. See Stat.
14 Car. 2. c. 18. and here
' cap. Felony by Statute. |
Chap. 113, 114. |
§. 2.
Persuing
in order to
Transporting. |
' No person shall press together with Screws, Presses,
or other Engins,
' into any Sack, Bag, Pack, or other Wrapper; or Put, Press, Pack or Stain,
' any Wool or Yarn made of Wool into any Cask or Vessel, or shall lay
' or carry, or cause, &c. at or near the Shore or Coasts of the Sea
or navigable
' River, any Wool, Wool-flocks, or Yarn made of Wool; with an
' intent to convey the same out of England or Ireland into
Scotland or
' any foreign parts, upon pain to lose the same or the value thereof.
14 Car. 2. cap. 18. |
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§. 3.
Times of
Carriage. |
' No Bags, Sacks, Packs or Cask of Wool, Wool-sells,
Mortlings, Sherlings,
' Yarn made of Wool, Wool-flocks, Fullers earth, Fulling-clay or Tobacco
' pipe clay, shall be carryed or conveyed to or from any place or places
' in England, but from the first of March to the 24th
of September, between
' four of the Clock in the Morning and eight of the Clock in the
' Evening, and from the 29th of Sept. to the first day of
March, between
' seven of the clock in the Morning and five of the Clock in the Evening,
' upon penalty of forfeiture thereof. |
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§. 4.
Forfeitures. |
' The moiety of all Forfeitures by this Act to the
King, the other to the
' Prosecutor. |
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' Justices of Peace in their Quarter Sessions may
hear and determine
' Offences against this Act. 14 Car. 2. c. 18. |
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' The exporting, transporting, carrying or conveying
of any the Goods,
' Wares or Commodities mentioned in that Act is declared a common Nusance.
' 14 Car. 2. c. 18.
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CHAP. CXIV.
Words, News.
' JUstices of Peace may by virtue of their Commission
take Cognizance,
' and punish evil Words, for they tend to the breach of the Peace,
' especially if spoken against any publick Person or Officer; And therefore
' of one say of a Mayor in the execution of his Office, that he is a
' Fool, an Indictment lies: But say of a Mayor playing at Dice, that
he is
' a Fool, no Indictment lies. Bag's Case, M. 12 Jac.
Rolls. Rep. part. 2. p. 79. |
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