Bay Making, Colchester Act 1660

IV. Counterfeiting Corporation Seal;

or unduly affixing Seal to Bays.; First Offence, Penalty £20.; Second Offence, Pillory.; Third Offence, Felony and Forfeiture of Bays.

And be it further Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That if any person or persons whatsoever shall from and after the said twentyeth day of September counterfeit or cause to be counterfeited any of the seales used by the Corporation or Congregation of the Dutch Bay Hall in Colchester, or shall, not being the Officer thereunto by the said Corporac[i]on appointed, and in the place by them thereunto appointed affix any such seale or seales to any Colchester Bayes whether counterfeited or not counterfeited that every person soe offending, being therof lawfully convicted shall for his first offence forfeit and pay to the use of the said Governours of the said Dutch Bay Hall the summe of twenty pounds to be recovered in any of His Majestyes Courts of Record or in the Towne Court of Colchester by any Action of debt bill plaint information or otherwise, wherin noe essoygne protection or wager of the Law shall be allowed, and for the second offence being convicted as aforesaid shall stand in the Pillory in the Market or most publique place where such offence shall be committed for the space of one houre, and for the third offence being as aforesaid convicted shall suffer as a Felon, and if any Bayes shall be taken carrying or carried out of Colchester without the marke of the maker that all such Bayes shall be forfeit.