Navigation (Colchester to Wivenhoe) Act 1697

XII.

No Goods, except Wood or Timber, to be laded or unladed, except at Wivenhoe and New Hithe; Penalty £5.

And to the Intents that the said Payments and Sums of Money may with the greater Ease Security and lesse Charge be collected and paid and His Majesty lesse lyable to be defrauded in His Duties and Customes Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said First Day of May no Goods Wares and Merchandizes (except Wood or Timber) shall be laded or unladed att any Key or Wharfe in the said River or Channel but onely att Wivenhoe and the New Hithe aforesaid upon paine of forfeiting unto the said Mayor and Co[m]monalty & their Successors the Su[m]m of Five Pounds for the Uses and Purposes aforesaid for all such Goods which shall be laden or unladen att any other Private Key or Wharfe betwixt Wivenhoe & New Hithe aforesaid to be recovered by the said Mayor & Co[m]monalty by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record att Westminster together with full Costs of Suit wherein no Essoigne Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed nor any more than one Imparlance.