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 A. D. t - • i. Anno triccfimo tcrtio Mknrici VIII. C. [8 — 20. I IK 1 1 < '.■ II IC .11'',- U ■ II I .1111 LVLI I L1IUII ,IIIU I CIIUII ' • Hill .11 y U» II1U 1 I.IIUI, |' ont l t ing and Purport of t i i i. Statute, to lofe and foi Hm I. ' y Shillings, the Forfeit, one Half thereof to h toon, and the other Half thereof to be to the Party grieved, ill fue for tl 1 Hire in any Court of Record, Lcct or lay, by Action ol Debt, Kill, Plaint, Information or othcrwife, in which Suit no Protection, Wager of Law, Efloin or o icr di ; a fliall be admitted or allowed. C A P. XVIII. So much of the Statute of 27 II. S. c. iz. as doth concern the Ercadth of FCerfcy, repealed, and the Reft- R r. P. 51-6 due confirmed. E • "• e« 6. C A P. XIX. An Exposition of a certain Statute concerning the fhipping of Cloths. ' XT 7 HERE in the Parliami n id holderi at London the third Day of November in the one and j 7 h. 3. c. 13. ' thence adjourned to Wcjlminfler^ and there alio hidden and continued by divers Prorogations unto the ' fourth I lay of February in the feven and twentieth Year of our faid Sovereign Lord the King's Reign, and ' there then holdcn until the Difl'olution thereof, it was by Act of Parliament ordained and tftablifhed, 1 That every white Woollen Cloth fold for four Pound and under, and every coloured Cloth (old for three ' Pound and under, might be carried and conveyed into the Parts of beyond the Sea, there to be fold at ' the Pleafure of the Buyers of the faid Cloth and Cloths, unbarbed, unihorn and unrowed; any Act or ' Acts to the contrary made notwithstanding. ' II. And by the tame Act it was further enacted, That if any Pcrfon or Pcrfons did fend or convey, or ' of iv. li. or any coloured Cloth above the Price of iii. li. unrowed, unbarbed and unfhorn, in other Form ' ihan is above mentioned, that then the Pcrfon or Perfons fo offending fliall forfeit the Value of the faid ' Cloths, fo carried and conveyed into the Parts beyond the Sea, (2) the one Moiety of the fame Forfeiture ' to be to the Ufe of our faid Sovereign Lord the King, and the other Moiety to any Perfon which will or ' fliall fue by Bill, Writ or othcrwife, againff. any Perfon for the fame; (3) and the Defendant in any ' any fuch Defendant be allowed in the fame, as by the fame Act more plainly appeareth ; (4) upon the ' Interpretation and expounding of certain Words within the faid Act, Diveriity of Opinions hath rifen ' amongft fome Perfons, that if any Perfon or Perfons fend or convey, or caufe to he fent or conveyed, to- ' wards the Parts beyond the Sea, any white Woollen Cloth above the Value of iv. li. or any coloured ' Value thereof be forfeited, before the fame Cloth be carried and conveyed into the Parts beyond the Sea :' ' R - 3- c - S. (5) For a plain Declaration of the Premiffes, be it ordained and enacted by the Authority of this prefent Q. . v. Parliament, That no Perfon or Perfons from henceforth fliall carry or fhip, or caufe to be fliipped in any woollen Cloths Ship, Boat, Cray or Vefiel, any white Woollen Cloth above the Value of iv. li. or any coloured Cloth white or co- above the Value of iij. li. unrowed, unbarbed or unfhorn, to the Intent to be conveyed into the Parts be- loured, carried yonil the Sea, upon Pain of Forfeiture of the fame Cloth or Cloths, or the Value thereof, the fame For- ° v. cr thc s "» or ifeiture to be recovered in fuch Manner and Form as is afore mentioned. Jnrpped to be carried, mav be. 3 H. 7. c. 11. S EI. c. 6. 10 Ann. c, 16. For fattier Prstifions, fie I Gcc. I. c, 15 6? 41. 11 do. I. c. 24. 7 Geo. 2. c. 25. 11 Geo. 2. .-. iS. nd 14 Geo. 2. c. 35. C A P XX. How Treafon committed by a Lnnatick fhall be punifhed, and in what Manner he fliall be tried.
 * VV twentieth Year of the Reign 01' cur molt dread Sovereign Lord King Henry the Eighth, and from
 * caufc to be lent and conveyed, into the Parts beyond the Sea, any white Woollen Cloth above the Value
 * Plea upon any fuch Suit or Action be not admitted to wage his Law, nor any Protection nor ElToin for
 * Cloth above the Value of iij. li. unrowed, unbarbed or unfhorn, whether the fame Cloth fo fent, or the 4.EV. 4. e. 1.
 * T70rafmuch as fometime fome Perfons, being accufed of High Treafons, have, after they have been exa- 3 !""■• 5> 6 > i9>

' JF mined before the King's Majefty's Council, confeffed their Offences of High Treafon, and yet ne- 2 I%? 1 „ s *n ' vet thelefs after the doing of their Treafons, and Examinations and Confefiions thereof, as is afore laid, r. 3 2 . ' 3 ^" ' have fallen to Madnefs or Lunacy, whereby the condign Punifhment of their Treafons, were they never Altei 1 . - I' fo notable and dete'ftable, hath been deferred, fpared and delayed ; and whether their Madnefs or Lunacy Ph. &M. c. ib. ' by them outwardly fhewed were of Truth, or frlfly contrived and counterfeited, it is a Thing almcft im- iBolciP.c.ig, ' poflible certainly to judge and try :' Be it therefore enacted by Authority of this prefent Parliament (to avoid all finifter, counterfeit and falfe Practiles and Imaginations that may be ufed for Excuie of Punifli- ment •-