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Subsidy Act 1660
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XI.Goods which may be exported being at certain Prices.
His Majesty by Proclamation may prohibit transporting Gunpowder, &c.
And bee it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that it shall and may be lawfull ĩmediately after the passing of this Act for any person or persons to ship carry out and transport by way of merchandize these severall sorts of Goods following that is to say Gunpowder when the same doth not exceed the price of five pounds the Barrell, And Wheate Rye Peas Beanes Barley Mault and Oates X1 Porke Bacon Butter Cheese Candles when the same doe not exceed in price at the Ports from whence they are laden, and at the time of their Lading these prises following that is to say Wheate the Quarter Forty shillings, Rye Beanes and Pease the Quarter Twenty fower shillings, Barley and Mault the Quarter twenty shillings, Oates the Quarter Sixteene shillings, Beefe the Barrall Five pounds, Porke the Barrel Six pounds ten shillings, Bacon the pound six pence, Butter the Barrel Fower pounds ten shillings. Cheese the hundred One pound ten shillings, Candles the dozen pound Five shillings paying the respective rates appointed by this Act and noe more. Any former Law, Statute, Prohibition or Custome to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. Provided alwayes That it shall be free and lawfull for his Majesty at any time when he shall see cause soe to doe, and for such time as shall be therin expressed by Proclamation to prohibit the [X2transportation] of Gunpowder or any sort of Arms or Ammunition into any parts out of this Kingdome. Any thing in this Act contained, to the contrary notwithstanding.
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Beife O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
X2Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: transporting O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
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