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 14-2 C. i©— • iz. Anno vicefimo primo Hen rici VIII. A.D. 1529, CAP. X. e.**! J Whofoever. doth carry any Brafs, &a to any Port to be conveyed beyond the Sea, fhall forfeit the fame, or 33 H. 8. c. 7. the Value thereof. a& 3 Etl. 6. c '37- CAP. XI. At what Time Reftitution fhall be made of Goods ftolen. There (hall be TJ E it enacted by this prefent Parliament, That if any Felon or Felons hereafter do rob, or take away Reftitution to JJ any Money, Goods, or Chatties, from any of the King's Subjects, from their Perfon or otherwife, the Owner of w ithin this. Realm, and thereof the faid Felon or Felons be indicted, and after arraigned of the fame Fe- ftolen Goods ] on y? and found guilty thereof, or otherwife attainted by reafon of Evidence given by the Party fo robbed, oVof the Felon" or Owner of the laid Money, Goods, or Chatties, or by any other by their Procurement, that then the sBulftr. 310. Party fo robbed, or Owner, fhall be reftored to his faid Money, Goods, and Chatties; (2) and that as Cro. El. 661. well the Juftices of Gaol-delivery, as other Juftices, afore whom any fuch Felon or Felons fliall be found Kelyng48. guilty, or otherwife attainted, by reafon of Evidence given by the Party fo robbed, or Owner, or by any other by their Procurement, have Power, by this prefent A£f, to award, from time to time, Writs of Reftitution for the faid Money, Goods, and Chattels, in like Manner as though any fuch Felon or Felons 560. no. were attainted at the Suit of the Party in Appeal. CAP. XII. Touching making of. Cables, &c. in Burport. TheCaufeof ' T/f O ST humbly befeeching your Highnefs, the Bailiffs, BurgefTes, and other the Inhabitants of your former Main- ' J.VX Town and Borough of Burport, within your County of Doijct, that where they, out of Time tenanceof the t tnat n o Man's Mind is to the contrary, have ufed and exercifed to make, within the fame, the moft Burport and of ' f >art °f a ^ the great Cables, Halfers, Ropes, and all other Tackling, as well for your Royal Ships and the late'Decay ' Navy, as for the moft Part of all other Ships within this Realm, by reafon whereof your faid Town was thereof, ' right well maintained, and inhabited, your Highnefs and your Subjects right well ferved, until now of ' Ferms, and ufing Hufbandry out of the faid Town, and alfo daily refort to your faid Town to buy, and ' provide Hemp, and thereof make Cables, Ropes, Halfers, Traces, Halters, and other Tackle, which e deceivably made, by reafon whereof not onl-y the Buyers of the fame been continually thereby deceived, Hemp growing II. Be it therefore enafted by your Highnefs, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, within 5 Miles _ jn this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That no Manner Perfon or Perfons cf Burport fhali dwelling or inhabiting within the Diftance of Five Miles from the faid Town or Borough of Burport, fhall fce fold there. ^ Qm henceforth fell, or caufe to be fold out of the Market holden and to be holden within the fame Town or Borough of Burport, to any Perfon or Perfons, any Hemp, which fhall happen to grow within the faid Five Miles in Diftance from the faid Town or Borough, upon Pain of Forfeiture of the faid Hemp fo fold, or to be fold, in any Place or Places within the Diftance of the faid Five Miles out of the faid Town, Bo- rough, or Market, contrary to the Form and EfFeft of this Statute. Cables Halfers, III- And further be it enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That no Perfon or Perfons, other than fuch as and Tackle of fhall dwell, and be Inabitants within the faid Town, fliall make, after the Feaft of Eafter next coming, out Hemp fhall be of the faid Town, any Cables, Halfers, Ropes, Traces, Halters, or any other Tackle made of Hemp, in made at Burport. an y other Place or Places within the faid Diftance of Five Miles from the faid Town, upon Pain of For- feiture of the faid Cables, Halfers, Ropes, Traces, Halters, and other Tackle, made, and to be made contrary to the Form and EfFecT: of this Statute; (2) the one Half of every fuch Forfeitures, as well of the Hemp fo fold, or to be fold out of the faid Town, Borough, and Market, contrary to the Form afore- faid, as alfo the faid Cables, Halfers, Ropes, Traces, Halters, or other Tackle made out of the faid Town contrary to this Statute, to be to the Ufe of our Sovereign Lord the King, and the other Half to him that will fue for the fame, by Action of Debt, Bill, or Information, wherein neither Wager of Law, EfToin, nor_ Protection fhall be allowed, so Pound Wt. a lf. Provided always, That Twenty Pounds Weight fliall be accounted to the Stone, stone of Hemp. y p rov jded alfo, That every Perfon dwelling within the faid Diftance, may make Cables, Halfers, The Worker Ropes, Traces, Halters, and other Tackle, for their own Ufe and Occupations, but in no wife agairrft making it to his ^. j^q. ,^ this A( g. to enc j ure t0 the next Parliament. own Ufe. » v * Continued by 33 H. 8. c, 14. * 37 H. 8. c. 23. & 3 Car, s. c. 4. and again by 56 Car. I. c, 4. Fartler Previjions relating hereto, fee 55 El. c, 8. and 6 Aitttt • TbUJcems to In a Mijlaktn Reference. CAP.
 * late many, divers, and evil-difpofed Perfons, intending the Deftruftion of your faid Town, for their pri-
 * vate Lucre, and Advantage, have withdrawn themfelves into the Country in divers Places, there taking
 * Cables, Ropes, Halfers, Traces, Halters, and other Tackle, been by the faid Perfons flightly and
 * but alfo the Prices of the faid Cables, Halfers, Traces, Halters, and other Tackle thereby greatly in-
 * haunced, and your faid Town or Borough, by Means thereof, is like utterly to be decayed, ruined, and
 * defoiated, if fpeedy Remedy be not by your Highnefs in that Cafe provided.