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 * 1) HERE the Staple shall be kept.
 * 2) All Merchants may freely sell all their Merchandizes in the Staple.
 * 3) Merchants may buy Woolls, Leather, Fells, and Lead in England, so that they he carried to the Staple.
 * 4) That none going to the Staple be disturbed by the Purveyors.
 * 5) The King's Justices shall have no Cognizance of that which pertaineth to the Staple.
 * 6) That no Marshal or other Minister meddle with the Staple.
 * 7) Touching Licence of Passage of Woolls, Leather, Fells, or Lead.
 * 8) The Jurisdiction of the Staple.
 * 9) For Recognizance of Statutes of the Staple.
 * 10) For Weights and Measures of the Staple.
 * 11) Against forestalling of Merchandizes coming to the Staple.
 * 12) That no Woolls, Fells, Leather, nor Lead, be carried into Scotland.
 * 13) Touching Goods robbed upon the Sea coming into the Realm.
 * 14) For bringing of Bullion into the King's Exchanges.
 * 15) Concerning Indentures to be made between Carriers of Merchandizes to the Staple by fresh Rivers, and the Bailiffs of the Towns where they be Shipped.
 * 16) For the Rent of Places in the Staple where Woolls and other Merchandizes shall be set.
 * 17) That no Merchant Stranger be impeached for others Debt.
 * 18) Merchants of Ireland and Wales may bring their Merchandizes to the Staples in England.
 * 19) That none lose his Goods by Forfeit of his Servants.
 * 20) Merchant Strangers taken into the King's Protection.
 * 21) The Authority of the Major and Constables of the Staple.
 * 22) For Correctors of Strangers and Denizens to be in the Staple.
 * 23) For a certain Number of Porters, and other Officers, to be in the Staple.
 * 24) For Association to the Major of the Staple, where any Alien is Party.
 * 25) Nothing to be done in Prejudice of the Staple.
 * 26) Credence to be given to the Letters or Oaths of the Owners of Merchandizes coming into the Realm, testifying the true Value of them.
 * 27) The Penalty of them that be convict for shipping of Woolls.
 * 28) Confirmation of Privileges and Customs of the Staple.
 * 29) The Fees of the Mayors and Constables of the Staple.


 * 1) Onfirmation of all Statutes not repealed.
 * 2) The Lords Marchers in Wales shall be attendant to the Crown of England, and not to the Principality of Wales.
 * 3) None to be disseised or imprisoned, without due Process of the Law.
 * 4) How Escheators and other Officers shall answer the King the Profits of Lands coming to him by the Death of his Tenants.
 * 5) No Iron shall be sent out of the Realm.
 * 6) For the Election of Coroners.
 * 7) How long Sheriffs shall abide in their Offices.
 * 8) An Attaint shall be granted as well upon a Bill as upon a Writ of Trespass.
 * 9) No Writ shall be directed to a Sheriff to charge an Inquest to Indict any.
 * 10) For Redress of Errors, and Misprisions in Government in the City of London.
 * 11) Fresh Suit shall be made' after Robbers from Country to Country.
 * 12) Within what Time Purveyances made for the King's House shall be paid for.
 * 13) The Warrant of packing of Woolls shall be put out, and Inquest shall be De medietate lingua, where an Alien is Party.
 * 14) For shewing of Woolls every Day at the Staple, except Sunday.
 * 15) An Act declaring the Bounds of the Staple.

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 * 1) Onfirmation of the Great Charter, and the Charter of the Forest.
 * 2) Against the abating of the Prices of Woolls.
 * 3) For Discharge of the Estreats in the Exchequer.
 * 4) Against Extortion in Bishops Officers for Probates of Wills.
 * 5) The Contents of a Tun of Wine, and the true gauging of the same.
 * 6) Touching Fines and Amerciarnents of Labourers.
 * 7) Justices shall enquire of the Offenders of the Laws of the Staple.
 * 8) What Refuse shall be made of Wooll. All Woolls shall be brought to the Staple.
 * 9) The Chancellor and Treasurer upon Cause may defer the Passage of Woolls.
 * 10) For the Rule and Reformation of the Victuallers of. London.
 * 11) To whom the Ordinary may commit Adminstration, where a Man dieth intestate, and the Administrators to have Actions, as Executors should.
 * 12) The Chancellor and Treasurer (hall reform and examine Errors in the Exchequer.
 * 13) The King's Pardon.
 * 14) For levying of Escapes.
 * 15) At what Time the Sheriff shall hold his Turn.


 * 1) Ouching Herring, and the Manner of selling thereof.
 * 2) Concerning the Sale of Herrings at Yarmouth.
 * 3) For Stockfish.


 * 1) OR Fish coming within the Haven of Blackney.
 * 2) Ordinances for Fish.

Rdinatio facta pro Statu terræ Hiberniæ, containing 39 Chapters.

15. Con-
 * 1) OR Justices of Peace.
 * 2) & 3. For Purveyors.
 * 3) For making of Panells, and who shall be impanelled upon Juries.
 * 4) Auncel Weight abolished.
 * 5) For Weights and Measures.
 * 6) Attaint shall lie as well in Plea real as personal.
 * 7) Against Jurors taking Money for giving their Verdict.
 * 10, 11. For Labourers.
 * 1) There shall be no Forfeiture of Lands for Treason of dead Persons not attainted.
 * 2) How Escheators shall take their Inquests.
 * 3) For Traverse of Offices.