Wool Act 1662

VI. Recital that Wools, &c. are packed with Screws and other unlawful Engines, and then laden on board Ship as other Goods;

and also laid at or near the Sea Coast, &c. and laden by Night on foreign Ships Persons so packing Wool, &c. or laying it near the Sea Coast, &c. with intent to export; Wool, &c. forfeited.

And for as much as great quantities of Wooll Woollen Yarn and Woolflocks are close packed and pressed togeather with Scrues and other unlawfull Engines into Butts Pipes Hogsheads Chests and other Cask and Vessells and into Sacks Baggs and other Wrappers made of Wool or Linnen and under colour of Bales Sacks Baggs Packs and Cask of other Goods and otherwise great quantities of the same are daily loaden on board of Ships or other Vessels and soe are carryed conveyed exported and transported out of the Kingdomes Town of Berwick and Dominion aforesaid and alsoe great quantities are daily carried and laid at or neere the Coasts of the Sea or some navigable Rivers into Storehouses and Barnes and by night are laid on board of Shallops and other Vessells belonging to Aliens and so carried and exported out of the Kingdomes Town of Berwick and Dominion aforesaid Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said First day of August no person or persons shall presse together with any Scrues Presses or other Engines into any Sacke Pack Bagg or other Wrapper or shall put presse pack or stean any Wooll whatsoever or any Yarn made of Wooll into any Butt Pipe Hogshead Chest or any other Cask or Vessell upon any pretence whatsoever or shall carry or lay or cause to be carried or laid at or neare the Shoar or Coasts of the Sea or of any navigable River or into any House or Place near adjoyning thereunto any such Wooll Woolflocks or Yarn made of Wooll with intention to export transport carry or convey the same out of the Kingdomes of England or Ireland Town of Berwick upon Twede or Dominion of Wales into the Kingdom of Scotland or into any foreign parts under the penalty of the losse and forfeiture of all such Wooll Woolflocks and Yarn made of Wooll as shall be so packed or pressed or put or laid into Cask or carried or laid near to the Sea shoar or to any navigable River as aforesaid or the value thereof