Wool Act 1698

II. Goods and Ships, &c. forfeited, and Penalty £500.

Masters of Ships, Mariners and other Persons knowing and assisting, Penalty £40.

And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every of the Offender and Offenders Offence and Offences aforesaid shall be subject and lyable to the respective Pains and Penalties and Forfeitures hereafter following (that is to say) the said Wooll Woollfells Shortlings Mortlings Woollflocks Worsted Bay or Woollen Yarne Cloth Serge Bays Kerseys Says Frizes Druggets Cloth-Serges Shalloons or any other Draperies Stuffs or any other Manufactures made of or mixed with Wooll or Woollflocks so exported transported shipped off or carried conveyed or loaden contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act shall be forfeited And that every of the Offender and Offenders therein shall likewise forfeite the Sum of Five hundred Pounds for every such Offence And all and every Shipp Vessell Barge Boat or other Bottom whatsoever wherein any of the said Commodities are or shall be shipped or laid on board contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act shall be forfeited with all her Tackle Apparell and Furniture to them and every of them belonging And the Masters and Mariners thereof or any Porters Carriers Waggoners Boatmen or other Persons whatsoever knowing such Offence and wittingly aiding and assisting therein shall forfeite Fourty Pounds of which One Moyety shall be to him or them that shall sue for the same by Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record in England or Ireland and the other Moyety thereof to the Encouragement of setting up the Linnen Manufactures in Ireland to be disposed of by the Court of Exchequer there for that Use only In which Suit no Essoigne Protection or Wager of Law or more than One Imparlance shall be allowed