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Gunpowder Act 1640
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III.Putting in execution Letters Patents, Proclamations, &c. against this Liberty.
Premunire.
And lastly be it enacted by the Authority [X1aforesaid] That if any person or persons from and after the tenth day of August which shall be in the Yeare of our Lord God one thousand six hundred fourty and one shall put in execution any Letters Patents Proclamation Edict act Order Warrant Restraint or other Inhibition whatsoever whereby the Importation of Gunpowder Salt peter Brimstone or other the materials aforementioned or any of them from Forraign parts or the making of Gunpowder within this Realm shall be any way prohibited or restrained That then the said person and persons so offending shall incurre and sustain the pains penalties and forfeitures contained and provided in the Statute of provision and premunire made in the sixteenth yeare of the Reign of King Richard the Second.
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X1interlined on the Roll.
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