Exportation Act 1697

X. Owners of Wool shorn and laid up within 15 Miles of the Borders of Scotland, to give an Account thereof pursuant to 1 W. & M.c. 32. and make Entry.; and not to remove Wool without Licence;

Penalty.

And for the better preventing the carrying of Wooll into Scotland from England Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said Four and twentieth Day of June all and every Owner or Owners of Wool shorn laid upp or lodged within Fifteen Miles of the Borders of Scotland shall and are hereby required to give an exact Account of his her or their Number of Fleeces and where lodged or housed to such Person or Persons as shall be appointed and impowred for that Purpose pursuant to the Direction or true meaning of the aforesaid Act of Parliament made in the First Year of His present Majesty and the late Queen which Person or Persons shall give Attendance for that purpose at the several Ports and Market Towns within the aforesaid Distance of Fifteen Miles and shall and are hereby required to make a true Entry of such Wooll in a Book to be kept for that purpose and in case any Owner or Owners of such Wooll shall neglect or refuse to give such Account to such Person or Persons as shall after such Notice given remove such Wooll or any part [X1 thereof] without Licence from such Person or Persons as shall have made such Entry he she or they so neglecting or refuseing or removing afterwards her or their Wooll or any Part of it without Licence as aforesaid shall forfeit Three Shillings for every Pound Weight of such Wooll and the Wooll that shall be found within the Distance aforesaid of the Borders of Scotland not entred as aforesaid shall be and is hereby forefeited One third Part to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other Two third Parts to him or them who shall sue for the same in any of His Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster in which noe Essoign Protection or Wager of Law or more than One Imparlance shall be allowed.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: of it O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]