Repeal of 9 Will. 3. c. 9 Act 1698

W.III.c. 9; repealed at and from the Time herein mentioned

Whereas great Complaints are daily made of the Decay of the Woollen Manufactures in this Kingdome to the Impoverishment of many Thousands of Poor Families And whereas by Experience it is found That an Act made in the Ninth and Tenth Yeares of His now Majesties Reigne intituled An Act for rendring the Laws more effectuall for preventing the Importation of Forreigne Bone-Lace Loom-Lace Needle-Worke Point and Cut-Worke has been one great Cause thereof by being the Occasion that our Woollen Manufactures are prohibited to be imported into Flanders For Remedy therefore of the Mischiefe aforesaid Be it enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That at the End of Three Months to commence from the time of takeing off the Prohibition of the English Woollen Manufactures in Flanders the said the said Act and every Clause Matter and Thing therein contained shall be and become hereby repealed determined and of no Force.