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Legislation

Act discharging tradesmen to import made work

The king's majesty, considering the great discouragement given to manufactories and trades by tradesmen bringing home from foreign places such commodities as may be made within the kingdom by these of the same trade; does therefore, with advice and consent of the estates of parliament, inhibit and discharge all tradesmen and mechanics to import from foreign parts any made work belonging to that trade or calling whereof they are freemen, or to vend the same or any such ware brought home by merchants in their shops or otherwise, under the pain of confiscation, the one half to his majesty's use and the other to the apprehender or pursuer of the same.