Wool Act 1698

XIX. After the 1st Dec. 1699, no Wool or Woollen Manufactures, the Produce of the English Plantations in America, tobe loaden on board any Ship in any Port or Place there; nor be loaden on any Horse or Carriage for Exportation.

Penalty; Governors of Plantations and Officers to see Act executed.

And for the more effectuall Incouragement of the Woollen Manufacture of this Kingdom Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the First Day of December in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety nine no Wooll Woollfells Shortlings Mortlings Woollflocks Worsted Bay or Woollen Yarne Cloth Serge Bays Kerseys Says Frizes Druggets Cloth-Serges Shalloons or any other Drapery Stuffs or Woollen Manufactures whatsoever made or mixt with Wooll or Woollflocks being of the Product or Manufacture of any of the English Plantations in America shall be loaden or laid on board in any Ship or Vessell in any Place or Parts within any of the said English Plantations upon any Pretence whatsoever as likewise that no such Wooll Woollfells Shortlings Mortlings Woollflocks Worsted Bay or Woollen Yarne Cloth Serge Bays Kerseys Says Frizes Druggets Cloth-Serges Shalloons or any other Drapery Stuffs or Woollen Manufactures whatsoever made up or mixt with Wooll or Woollflocks being of the Product or Manufacture of any of the English Plantations in America as aforesaid shall be loaden upon any Horse Cart or other Carriage to the Intent and Purpose to be exported transported carried or conveyed out of the said English Plantations to any other of the said Plantations or to any other Place whatsoever upon the same and like Pains Penalties and Forfeitures to and upon all and every the Offender and Offenders herein within all and every of the said English Plantations respectively as are prescribed and provided by this Act for the like Offences committed within the Kingdom of Ireland and all Governours or Commanders in Chiefe of the said respective Plantations as alsoe all Officers imployed in the Customs or other Branches of His Majesties Revenue there are hereby authorized charged and required to take effectuall Care that the true Intent and Meaning of this Act soe farr forth as it relates to the said respective Plantations be duly put in Execution