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Newcastle (Sale of Coal by Measured Keels) Act 1678
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V.Removing or altering Marks;
Penalty £10. Distress or Imprisonment.
And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid That in case after the ad measureing or marking of any Boate or Keele or Cart or Wayne the Marks shall be removed or altered that every person or persons who had a hand in the doeing thereof shall upon proofe thereof by one or more credible Wittnesses before any Justice of the Peace forfeite the summe of Ten pounds to be levyed upon his Goods and Chattells by distresse and sale thereof by Warrant of such Justice of the Peace (rendering the Overplus) and for failer of such distresse to be ecommitted to the common Goale [X1there] toremaine for the space of three Moneths without Baile or Maineprize.
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: there O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
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