FROM THE ORDINANCE OF THE STAPLES.
That Men of Ireland and WALES may bring their Wools And Leather to the Staples of England.
Because we do well perceive that Merchants strangers do not come so commonly into Ireland nor into Wales for to merchandize as they do into England. We will of our special Grace that it shall be lawful to the people of Ireland and Wales which cannot utter their wools leather woolfels and lead in Ireland and Wales to merchants strangers to come with their said Merchandises that after they be customed and cocketted in Ireland and in Wales to any of our staples in England which them shall please bringing their cockets witnessing their merchandises, which they shall discharge at the Staples in England; so that they, when they shall come to the Staples in England, or they that bought their said merchandises of them shall not pay any time, custom nor subsidy for the said merchandises so customed in our said lands of Ireland or Wales, and our Treasury and the Barons of our Exchequer of England shall be certified two times by the year at the least, that is to say, at Easter and Michaelmas, how much wools, leather woolfels and lead shall pass out of the said Land of Ireland and of the custom thereof paid; and in case that the Merchants or other people of Ireland or of Wales, after that they be in the sea with their said merchandises do pass to any place other than to the Staples in England they shall incur the pains and forfeitures in the said Third Article.
Item, it is accorded and established. That all the Lords of the Marches of Wales shall be perpetually attending and annexed to the Crown of England, as they and their ancestors have been all times past, and not to the Principality of Wales, in whose hands soever the same Principality be, or hereafter shall come.
