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Penalty.; Merchant Aliens shall be well intreated.
And bee it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Wines Goods or other Merchandice wherof the Subsidies aforesaid are or shalbe due shall at any time after be shipped or putt into any Boate or Vessell to the intent to be carryed into the parts beyond the Seas, or else be brought from the parts beyond the Seas into any Port Place or Creeke of this Realme, or other your Majesties Dominions by way of Merchandize, and unshipped to be laid on Land, the Subsidy, Customes, and other Duties due or to be due for the same not paid or lawfully tendered to the Collector therof or his Deputy with the consent and agreement of the Comptroller and Surveyor there or one of them at the least [X1not] agreed with for the same in the Custome house according to the true meaning of this Act, that then from the said Fower and twentieth day of June all the same Wines Goods and Merchandizes whatsoever shall be forfeit to your Majesty, the moyety of the rate thereof to Your Majesty, and the other moyety to him or them that will seize the same or sue for the same, And that it may please your Majesty that all Merchants as well Denizens as Strangers coming into this Your Realme be well and honestly intreated and demeaned for such things as Subsidy by this Act is granted as they were in the time of Your Noble Progenitors and Predecessors without oppression to them to be done paying the Subsidies aforesaid.
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: nor O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
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