Lace Act 1697

Recital of 14 Car.II. c.13. § 1

and that the Provisions of the said Act have been inneffectual; Importing or selling or knowingly having in Custody for Sale any Foreign Bone Lace.; Penalty 20s. per Yard.

Whereas by an Act made in the Thirteenth and Foureteenth Yeares of the Reigne of His late Majesty King Charles the Second intituled An Act prohibiting the Importation of Forreigne Bone Lace Cutt-work Imbroidery Fringe Band-strings Buttons and Needle-works amongst other things all Forreigne Bone-Lace Cutt-work and Needle-work are prohibited to be imported or sold in the Kingdome of England [X1 or] Dominion of Wales under the Pains Penalties and Forfeitures in the said Act mentioned And whereas the Provisions and Penalties in the said Act have not proved effectual but the same have been eluded and great Quantities of the said prohibited Goods have been and are daily imported and sold to the Impoverishment of a greate Number of Families in England whose Livelyhood depends on the making Bone lace Needle-work Point and Cutt-work and to the greate Discouragement of the said Manufactures in this Kingdome For Remedy whereof and for the more effectual restraining the Importation and Sale of all Forreigne Bone-lace Loom-lace Needle-work Point and Cutt-work and for the better Discovery and Punishm[en]. of the same Be it enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Co[m]mons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and every Person and Persons who shall from and after the Five and twentieth Day of March One thousand six hundred ninety eight import or cause to be imported into the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick upon Tweed or who shall (from and after the Foure and twentieth Day of December which shall be in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety eight) sell barter or offer to sale or barter or cause to be sold or bartered or offered to sale or barter or who shall knowingly keep in his her or their Custody for Sale or for the Use or Benefitt of any Importer or Dealer in the said Co[m]modities any Forreigne Bone-lace Loom-lace Needle-work Point or Cutt-work shall forfeit and lose the Su[m]m of Twenty Shillings per Yard for all the said Forreigne Bone-lace Loom-lace Needle-work Point and Cutt-work so imported sold bartered offered to sale or barter or kept as aforesaid together with all the said Goods.

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