Wool Act 1698

1. Introductory Text

2. Reasons for passing this Act.

3. II. Goods and Ships, &c. forfeited, and Penalty £500.

4. III. No Acquittal in Ireland (Exception) allowed in Plea on any Indictment in England.

5. IV. Any Person may convey to the King's Warehouse any Wool, &c. that he may find or know to be laden upon any Horse or Carriage, or on board any Ship, &c. for Exportation out of Ireland; and may seize and secure any Ship, &c. wherein any such Commodities shall be shipped, &c.

6. V. Bond to be given in double Value, to the Customs, for every Ship sailing from Ireland in order to export any of the said Commodities before Loading.; Condition of such Bond.

7. VI. Register to be kept at Custom House in London, of Goods imported from Ireland.

8. VII. Regulations as to writing and signing Cockets, Certificates, &c.

9. VIII. Commissioners, &c. of Revenue of Ireland, every Six Months, to transmit to Commissioners, &c. in England account of Goods exported from Ireland.

10. IX. Certificates to be written upon Paper, and Marks, &c. not be obliterated.

11. X. Ports at which Goods exported from Ireland to England to be shipped off, and also Ports of Importation in England.

12. XI. Commissioners or Officers of Revenue in Ireland suffering to be...

13. XII. Where Offences against this Act to be tried.

14. XIII. In Actions for executing Act.

15. XIV. Proviso for Importation, from certain Ports in Ireland, of Wool and Woollen Manufactures.

16. XV. Penalties and Forfeitures of Bonds not to be granted or...

17. XVI. Admiralty to appoint certain Ships and Sloops to cruise on the Coasts of England and Ireland, with Orders to take Ships, &c. exporting Wool, &c.

18. XVII. Wool, Ships, &c. seized, forfeited, and Wool taken to the King's Warehouse and detained until condemned, and when condemned.and sold by Inch of Candle.

19. XVIII. Commanders of such Ships neglecting Duty, &c. Penalty, Imprisonment, and Incapacity.

20. XIX. After the 1st Dec. 1699, no Wool or Woollen Manufactures, the Produce of the English Plantations in America, tobe loaden on board any Ship in any Port or Place there; nor be loaden on any Horse or Carriage for Exportation.

21. XX. In Prosecutions for Offences against this Act, a Capias to issue in the first Process, specifying Penalty sued for.

22. XXI. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to give Order for Act being given in charge by Judges at Assizes.