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The acts made in the parliament continued from 9 October to 31 January 1466 [1467]
Item, to begin with, that none of our sovereign lord's lieges sail nor pass in merchandise out of our realm other than freemen, burgesses dwelling within a burgh, or their familiars, factors or household servants who [receive] food and drink [from them], except that it shall be lawful for prelates, lords, barons and clerks to send their own goods with their servants and to buy things again necessary for their own use.
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Item, it is decreed and ordained that no craftsman may undertake trade by himself or through his factors or servants, unless he gives up and renounces his craft, without deceit or falsehood.
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Item, that no man may sail in nor pass out of the realm in merchandise other than a reputable and worshipful man who has on his own behalf a last of goods, or as much in steerage and governance, under the pain of £10 to be raised for our profit by each person acting in disobedience of this.
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Item, it is similarly decreed and ordained that, in the future, no ship may be freighted outwith or within our realm by any of our lieges without a charter party containing these points underwritten. That is to say, that the master of the ship shall find sufficient steermen, timbermen and shipmen requisite for the ship, and that the master supply free to the merchants fire, water and salt at his own expense. And that if any contention or debate arises between the master and the merchants, they shall comply with the jurisdiction and ordinance of the burgh to which the ship is freighted with no exception. And that no merchant's goods be torn nor spilt with unreasonable stollin† as with poles, nor that any goods be cut or struck up in any way to the master's or his servants' negligence under the pain of forfeiture of the said freight and compensation of the damage to the merchants. And that the masters carry no goods upon their decks, but if they do those goods shall not pay freight, nor goods under the deck to 'lot nor scot'† with those goods, in case they are thrown overboard. And that each ship exceeding five lasts of goods shall pay to the chaplain of the nation a sack freight, and [ships] within five lasts [shall pay] half a sack freight under the pain of £5 to be raised by each person disobeying [this statute] for the use of our sovereign lord the king. And that no drink money may be received by the master or his servants under the aforementioned pain, and a town freight to the kirk building work of the town.
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Item, it is decreed and ordained that in the future no ship may be freighted out of our realm with any staple goods from the feast of Simon's and Jude's day [28 October] until the feast of the Purification of Our Lady called Candlemas [2 February] under the pain of £5 of the usual money of our realm to be raised for our sovereign lord's use by each person freighting any ship in disobedience hereof.
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Item, it is decreed and ordained that none of our sovereign lord's lieges shall, from the feast of St Peter called ad vincula [1 August], cargo any ships, merchandise or goods to the Swyn, the Slues, the Dam or Bruges under the pain of forfeiture of all their goods and the banishment of their persons from the realm. And that all persons who now have merchandise or other goods in the towns of Bruges, the Dam or the Sluse remove and withdraw themselves and their goods from the said places before the said feast of St Peter, and from thenceforth that they neither buy or sell nor undertake trade in any of the places previously noted under the aforementioned pains.
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Item, that our sovereign lord, with the advice of his council at Edinburgh on 29 August next year 1467,† granted tolerance and sufferance to all merchants of his realm who sail from here to pass with their ships and goods to the town of Middleburg, and to undertake their trade there but not to remain there as at a staple until our sovereign lord provides a staple for them, and until his highness decides what freedoms and privileges they shall have in the future at the [new] staple, [and] for this certain persons shall be sent in all goodly haste to bring an answer thereupon.
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Item, it is decreed and ordained in the said parliament that it shall be lawful for all merchants of this realm to sail to La Rochelle, Bordeaux, France and Norway with such merchandise as is convenient to carry there, as was done before, and that all staple goods are to remain and to be stapled and not to pass to markets, and this is to be observed and kept under the aforesaid pains.