Customs Act 1662

XXXIII. Exporting or importing Goods to or from Mediterranean in improper Ships.

Rate of £1 per Cent. over Tonnage and Poundage.; Proviso for Exportation of Fish to the Mediterranean.

And for the better [X1 increase] of good and serviceable Shipping and secureing the publique Trade and Commerce

Bee it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Merchant or other person that shall after the nine and twentieth day of September One thousand six hundred sixty and two export any Goods or Merchandizes from any Port of this Kingdome capable of a Ship or Vessell of Two hundred Tun upon an ordinary full Sea to any part or place of the Mediterranean Sea beyond the Port of Malaga or import any Goods or Merchandize from the Ports or Places aforesaid to any Port of this said Kingdome in any Shipp or Vessell that hath not Two Decks and doth carry lesse then Sixteene Reeces of Ordances mounted togeather with Two Men for each Gun and other Ammunition proportionable shall pay to our Soveraigne Lord the King for all and every the Wares and Merchandizes soe exported or imported One per centu[m] over and above the Rates and Duties of Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage otherwise due and payable for the same Any thing in this act before contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwaies that it shall and may be lawfull to export from any of His Majesties Dominions Fish into any the Ports of the Mediterranean Sea aforesaid in any English Shipp or Vessell whatsoever Provided that [X2 one] Moyety of her full Lading be Fish only and in such case to import any Wares or Merchandize in the same Shipp for that Voyage without paying any other Rates or Duties of Tonnage or Poundage for the same then were heretofore accustomed

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: On O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]