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The king's majestie, considering how necesser it is that all former lawes for improveing of native commodities be revived, and understanding that the deacons and remanent tradsmen of the skinners have, upon their oune charges, brought from forrane places perfumers, makers and preparers of lether, by whose pains and arte the kingdome may be furnished with gloves at easier rates and able to furnish other nations abroad with made worke, doth therfor, with advice and consent of the estates of parliament, ratifie and approve the 178 act of the 13th parliament of King James 6, of blessed memorie, dischargeing the exportation of skins and others thairincontained, and ordaines the same to be put to execution conforme to the tenor thairof in all points; and also considering how usefull goatskins, hart, deer and other wilde beasts' skins might be, if they wer prepared and improven by skinners within the kingdome, his majestie doth therfor, with advice forsaid, discharge all merchants, tradsmen and others to transport any calff skin, kid skin, hudderon or shorling skins or any goat skins, hart, buck, deer or any other wilde beasts' skins forth of the kingdome, under paine of confiscation of the same; and for the further encouragement of the skinner trade and manufactorie, licence is heirby given to export gloves made within the kingdome frie of all custome and excise for the space of nyntein yeers after the date heirof, reserveing alwayes to the lord thesaurer and commissioners of exchequer to give licences for exporting of skins as they shall find cause after one yeer from the date heiroff.