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Woollen Manufactures Act 1688
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VII.Owner of Ship, &c. discovering undue Exportation
not liable to Penalty, and entitled to Reward.; Persons authorized may seize Wool, &c.
Provided alwayes That if any Owner of any Shipp or Vessell or any Master or Marriner knowing of the Exportation of any Sheeps-wooll Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarne made of Wooll Woolflocks Fullers Earth Fulling Clay or Tobacco Pipe Clay contrary to the true meaning of this and the other Acts above mentioned shall within three months next after the knowledge thereof or after his returne into the Kingdome of England or Ireland or to the said Towne of Berwicke or into the Dominion of Wales aforesaid give the first Information bona fide before any of the Barons for the time being of the Court of Exchequer in England or the Court of Exchequer in Ireland or before any three of the Commissioners appointed by this Act for the more effectuall putting in Execution this and other Laws made against the Exportation of Wooll or before the Head Officer of any Port where he shall first arrive upon his or their Oath of the Number and Quantity of such Sheeps Wooll [X1Woolfells] Mortlings Shorlings Yarne made of Wooll Wooll Flocks Fullers Earth Fulling Clay or Tobacco Pipe Clay soe carryed conveyed or exported as aforesaid and by whome where and in what Shipp or Vessell and afterwards shall be ready upon reasonable Warning by Processe to justifie and prove the same That then such Owner and Owners Master Marriner and Marriners shall not be lyable or subject to any the Penalties or Forfeitures in this or any other Act contained or enacted for the Offence aforesaid but shall and is hereby enabled to recover and recieve such benefitt and advantages as is appointed to be allowed by the precedent Act or Acts Provided neverthelesse That the Powers given to the said Commissioners shall not hinder any person or persons lawfully authorized from seizing Wooll or prosecuteing any person offending against this or any former Act made against the Transportation of Wooll and other the things abovementioned
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