A.D.i 597- Anr.o triccfip O. 20. 6 7 the fame, or if the fay] O/timdcr do not pay tl fame by the faid Officer tp be appointed foi thi denyiiii oi refuting, ana not payi .g tl double Sum he mould before haw paid, to be levied (trices of the Peace of tfie i. Count] ivh re tl I id of the Quorum, (hall be thought moft Amendment of the. Highways, aa th< ■ , if the fame 1 . . cording to tin true Intenl V. And be it further enacted by the 1, That tb to Time for the 1 ime being, within the Parifh vrb ;bways (lull be moll ann Surveyors (hall mal e Demand according to thi I i prefent Act, of all ami i fiature and Sums of Money limited to be paid in Default of fuohCa WBoo* forfeit for every fuch Default, forty Shillings. (3) And (hall alio make Prcfcntmcnt of • rrt»F ,'- fault of Carriage or Payment, contrary to the Tenor of thi.. prefent Act, at the next Quarter-Seflion to . be holderi for the laid County, where fuch Default of Carriage and Payment (hall be ; upon Pain to i flit for every fuch Default or Prcfcntmcnt as aforefaid, forty Shillings. (4) The one Moiety of all fuch *-"• *• '■ "■ Forfeiture and forfeitures to be to the Queen's Majefty ; the other Moiety t" inch i' will me for the fauu, by Action, Bill, Plaint or Information] in any of her Majefty s Courts of Record, where no Wager of Law, Eflbin or Protection (hall be allowed. ,' ,6. 6 Ann. c. 18. I Geo. I. r. II £f 5:. 5 do. 1. e. 12. 6 Get. I. c. 6. 5 Geo. 2. c. 13. ('.ohkb ii made ferpttual by 27 Geo. 2. e. 16.) 7 Ceo. z. e. 9. It c. 20. 9 Geo. z. c. iS. 14 Geo. 2. c. 42. 15 Geo. 2. c. 2. 16 Geo. 2. c. 29. 21 Geo. 2. c. 28. 24 Geo. 2. c. 43. 26 Ge;. 2. .. ; c. 17. 30 Geo. 2. c. 2S. eir.d 31 Geo. 2. c. 34. CAP. XX. An Ad againft the deceitful Stretching and Tcntering of Northern Cloth. ' IN mod: humble and dutiful wife fheweth, bcfccching your Highnefs, your true and faithful Subjects, 4 EJ. 4. 6 1. 1 X the Clothiers and Chapmen of your Counties of York, Lancafter, and other your Highnefs Counties No P
- on the North-fide of the River of Trent, That notwithstanding the many good and wholfom Laws hereto- ,1>c J '
' fore made for the true making of good and true Clothes and Kerfies, which Laws, either by fome wants ^ . "."' ^ ' ' in the Statutes already made, or for lack of the due Execution of the faid Laws, have not only not re- 3n y cloth nude ' (trained the great Abufe in making of Clothes and Kerfies, but rather have encreafed the fame ; (2) in- nor ufc my ' fomuch that the (aid Northern Clothes and Kerfies do yearly and daily grow w< rft and worfc, and are Tenter, Ac. ' made more light, and much more ((retched and drained, than heretofore they have been, to the great ™' ' Deceit of all Nations where the faid Clothes and Kerfies are fold, and to the great Shame and Slander °f Ac^tooll W '"• ' the Country where the fame is made, and within fhort Time like utterly to overthrow the Tiadc of | en Broad ' Cloth-making in thofe Countries, whereupon fo many Thoufands of your Subjects do now live and arc Clo: ' maintained : (3) Which great Enormities your faithful Subjects do chiefly impute to the great Number *3 * ' of Tenters and other Engines daily uled and pradrtifed in the faid Counties for the {{retching and (train- fa. 7 '- ' ing of the faid Clothes and Kerfies :' (+) For Remedy and Rcdrefs whereof, your faid Subjects humbly cn f„j "°™' befecch your mod excellent Majefty, that it may pleafe your Highnefs, with the Affent of the Lords Spi- notching f ritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament aiiembled, and by the Authority of N< • the fame, it may be enacted, any Statute or Law whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding, That no J? 01 '"* "^ '}"•' Perfon or Perfons, within any the Counties aforefaid, from and after the twentieth Day of S | next coming, (hall ftrctch or (train, or caufc to be ftretched or ftrained, any Clothes, Dozens Kerfies, J^ie' Peniftones, Ruggs, Frizes, Kighley Whites, plain Greys, Or any other Clothes, by what Name or bcrUnd, a-c. Nmv.cs foever they be called, made or hereafter to be made within the faid Counties of fork, Lemca/ler, or arc excepted by . any other the Counties on the North of Trent ; upon Pain to forfeit for every Default^ five Pounds. II. And further, that no Perfon or Perfons, from and after the 1 * Day of September, within 5 &6 "- £ the Counties aforefaid, or any of them, (hall have, ufe or occupy any Tenter, of what Sort or Kind foever, or any Manner of Wrinch, Rope or other Engines, to ftrctch or (train any Clothes, Kerf: . Dozens, Peniftones, Ruggs, Frizes, Cottons, Kighley Whites, plain Greys, or any other Cloth, of what Kind or Name foever it or they be called, made, wrought or to be made or wrought, within the (aid Counties ; (2) upon pain that every Offender that fhall have or ufe, or exercife any fuch Tenter, of what Sort or Kind foever, or any Manner of Rope, Wrinch, Ring-head or Engine, (hall forfeit for every fuch Default, twenty Pounds. III. And further, That every Perfon or Peifons within the Counties aforefaid, or anyof them, which Northern fhall make or caufe to be made any Clothes, Kerfies, Dozens, Cottons, Peniftones, plain Greys, Kigh- cl °f h ". * al ' !,c ley Whites, Frizes, or any other Cloth, by what Name or Names foever it or they be called, (Ball Weighs * make the feme of fuch Weights, Le gths and Breadths, as by the Statutes of this Realm already in Force Length-,' nnj is Provided, under the Pains in the fame Statutes contained : (2) And before the fame be fold or offered Breadths, u U to be fold, (hall let his Seal of Lead unto every of the fame Clothes, Kerfies, Dozens, Coctons, plain frnr.er Statute: Vol. If. 4U Greys, ».W«*
