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 220 G I 8, Anno vicefimo fexto Henrici VIII. A. D. 1534^ The foregoing Aft confirmed, 21 H. 8. c. 21 Farther prcvid firiy n H.S 3 El.c. 4. EXP. ' ample wife, as they might have done before the making of the faid Act; any Thing contained in the fame ' Act to the contrary notwithstanding. ' And alfo it was further provided and enacted, That the faid Craftfmen of Worded -Weavers, inhabiting ' Craftfmen, or any of them, or any other Perfon, any of the faii Cloths of Worfted, Says and Stamins, ' or the Value thereof, fhorn, dyed, coloured or callendred by any of the faid Craftfmen, Buyers or Mer- ' as fhould feize the fame ; fo that the faid Worfteds brought to the faid City of Norwich to be fhorn, dyed, ' coloured and callendred, without Covin or Craft of any of the faid Inhabitants and Merchants, might be ' fhorn, dyed, coloured and callendred at and by as convenient Price or Prices, and in as ready wife, as the ' faid Inhabitants of either of the faid Towns of Lyn and Yarmouth, and Merchants Buyers of the faid ! Worfteds, or other of the faid City and County had had in Times paft, or after that fhould have. ' And alfo that the faid Inhabitants and Merchants, and every of them, fo bringing the faid Worfteds to 4 the fame City to be fhorn, dyed, coloured and callendred, were reafonably and lawfully intreated ac- ' And it was further enacted, That no Perfon or Perfons any Time after that fhould convey or tranf- c mouth and Lyn ;' be it therefore enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, That the fame Act, and every Ar- ticle, Sentence and Provifion therein contained, fhall from henceforth be continued, and ftand for ever in ' d full Strength and Virtue. ■ c. 16. 1 Ed. 6. c, 6. and 13 S? 14 Car. %. c. 5. CAP. XVII. For Leflees to be difcharged for paying any Thing for their Leffors to the King, by reafonof the Act of Firft-Fruits. FOR certain reafonable and urgent Confiderations moving the King's moft high Court of Parliament, it is ordained and enacted by Authority of the fame, That all and Angular termors and Leffees of any Manors, Lordfhips, Lands, Tenements or other Hereditaments, Parfonages, Vicarages, Portions of Tythes, or other whatfoever Profits or Commodities belonging to any Archbimop, Bifhop or other Prelate, or Spiritual Perfon or Perfons, or Spiritual Body Corporate or Politick, whereof any Firft-Fruits or yearly Penfion of the tenth Part is granted to the King our Sovereign Lord in this prefent Seffion of the faid Court of Parliament, fhall be difcharged, and not chargeable to pay to our faid Sovereign Lord, of his or their proper Money, Coft or Charge, for or in Difcharge of the LelTor or Leffors, Owner or Owners of the fame, by reafon of any Covenant, Bargain, Bond, Condition, Claufe of Reentry, or other Thing heretofore made or concluded ; (2) but that every of the faid Leffors and Owners and their Succcffors, fhall be charg- ed and chargeable to pay and fatisfy the fame of his and their proper Coft and Charge, to the Kinjr our So- vereign Lord, his Heirs and Succeflbrs, according to the Grant thereof ; any Covenant, Bargain, Contract, Bond, Condition, Claufe of Reentry, or other Thing heretofore made or concluded to the contrary thereof, in any wife notwithstanding. CAP. XVIII. The King's. Pardon to all his Subjects of all Felonies, Trefpaffes, and Offences not excepted. Statuttt
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 * or after that to be inhabiting, within either of the faid Towns of Lyn and Yarmouth, or Suburbs of the
 * fame, and the Merchants, or any other Perfon or Perfons, which fhould happen to buy of the fame
 * made or to be made within either of the faid Towns of Lyn and Yarmouth, and fealed by the faid Wardens
 * " of the fame Towns, to be elect and fworn as is aforefsid, and any of them, fhould not fhear, dye or put
 * in Colour, or callender any Worfteds, Stamins or Says, made or after that to be made within either of the
 * faid Towns of Lyn and Yarmouth, and Suburbs of the fame, in any other Place or Places, but only within
 * the faid City of Norwich, or Suburbs of the fame, upon Pain of Forfeiture of every Piece of Worfted,
 * Says or Stamins, to be made within any of the faid Towns of Lyn and Yarmouth, or Suburbs of the fame,
 * chants, in any other Place or Places, than in the faid City of Norwich, or Suburbs of the fame 5 the one
 * Half thereof to be to the King our Sovereign Lord, and the other Half thereof to fuch Perfon or Perfons
 * cording to the faid Act made in the faid feventh Year of King Edward the Fourth, and the Ordinances
 * made and affirmed, or thereafter to be made and affirmed for the faid Myftery, without Let or Difturbance
 * contrary to the fame Act or Ordinances in that Behalf.
 * port into any of the Parts of beyond the Sea, any manner of Cloths or Worfteds, before the fame Cloths
 * were fhorn, dyed, coloured and callendred, upon Pain of Forfeiture of the Value thereof; the one Half
 * to the King our Sovereign Lord, and the other Half thereof to the Party that will fue therefore by Action
 * or Plaint of Debt in any of the King's Courts ; in which Action or Suit no Protection or EfToin fhould be
 * allowed, nor the Defendant admitted to wage his Law, as by the faid Act thereof made more plainly ap-
 * peareth; which Act was made to endure unto the next Parliament, whereby it is now expired. In Confi-
 * deration whereof, and forafmuch as the fame Act is a good and neceffary Act for the true making of Wor-
 * fteds, Says and Stamins, and very commodious and profitable for the Increafe of the faid Towns of Yar-