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Our sovereign lord, with advice of his estates in this present parliament, statutes and ordains that all customs officers and searchers shall compear yearly in the ordinary time of the exchequer and make faith that they have done their duty truly in their offices the year preceding; and if any shall be tried to have done in the contrary by suffering and over-looking of forbidden goods or unaccustomed goods to be transported, either before the justice or his deputes or auditors of the exchequer, that the offender thereby incur the pain of deprivation from their offices and escheating of all their moveable goods.