Woollen Manufactures Act 1688

VI. Commissioners to execute the Act.

And for the better and more effectuall Execution of this and other Acts made against Exportation of Wooll bee it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Pilkington Lord Mayor of the City of London Sir Henry Goodrick Baronet Sir Patience Ward Knight Sir Mathew Andrews Knight Sir Benjamin Newland Knight Sir John Mathews Knight Sir Peter Rich Knight Sir Robert Dashwood Sir William Portman Knight and Baronet Sir Henry Ashurst Baronet Sir William Ashurst Knight Sir Richard Newdigate Sir John Fleete William Harbord John Summers John Sandford Foot Onslow John Pollexfen Richard Brett William Cranmore Edward Mountague Esquires Samuell Hasle William Hasle senior John Parish John Voyer John Gibbon Bernard Carter Gentlemen Mr Mountague of Horton Sir Thomas [X1 Samnell] Baronet William Dugdale Esquire John Astley of Woley Esq[uire] Sir William Langham Sir John Poley Knight Sir Benjamine Ayloffe Baronet Sir Robert Jefferies Knight Sir John Lethuellier Knight Sir Gabriell Roberts Knight Sir Samuell Dashwood Knight Sir Thomas Vernon Knight Nathaniell Tench William Hussey Thomas Canham William Gore Hugh Strode Samuell Meverell John Smith Thomas Firmin Arthur Moore William Crouch Thomas Heatley Thomas Sandis William Jolly Esquires Paris Slaughter Henry Cornish John Devinck Richard Scott David Prole Thomas Crandall Phillip Bickly John Paris Richard Harrison John Bustfield John Haines Edward Bickly Nicholas Brokeing William Sandford Benjamine Ivy Daniell Ivy Andrew Jeffery Thomas Turner Peter Parr Henry Newcomb Joseph Pince Mathew Ferris William Spry John Keese Senior John Monckly Junior William Wraford John Youat Robert Foster John Lavington Thomas Potter Robert Burridge John Upcott John Smith John Mudford or any five of them be authorized for putting this and other the said Laws in Execution who are hereby impowered from time to time by their Agents or Substitutes to be deputed under the Hands and Seals of any five or more of them to seize all Wooll Woolfells and other the things above mentioned which shall be endeavoured to be transported contrary to this Act and alsoe to sue and prosecute all persons offending against this or any the said Laws any Law Custome or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding

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