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164 thereby enabled to pay and Discharge all Duties Mizes Charges Subsidies and Taxations which were upon them imposed or rated in their several Counties Parishes and Places wherein they dwelled for the Relief of the Poor, and for the service of the King and the Commonwealth; And whereas also the Drapers of the Town of Shrewsbury, in the County of Salop, have of late obtained some Orders of Restraint whereby the Inhabitants of find themselves much prejudiced in the Freedom of their Markets for buying and selling of their Cloths, to their great damage as was verified by the general Voice of the Knights and Burgesses of the Twelve Shires of  and of the County of Monmouth: For remedy whereof be it declared and enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful to and for all and every his Majesty's Subjects inhabiting or dwelling, or which at any Time hereafter shall inhabit or dwell within the said Dominion of, or any part thereof, freely to sell by way of a Barter or otherwise, all or any their  Cloths Cottons Frizes Linings or Plains, at their Wills and Pleasures, to any person or persons who lawfully by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm may buy the same; And that it shall and may also be lawful for any person and persons who by the Laws or Statutes of this Realm may lawfully buy such Cloths and other the premisses, freely to buy the same of any person or persons inhabiting or dwelling or which hereafter shall inhabit or dwell within the Dominion of : Any Charter, Grant, Act, Order or any Thing else heretofore made or done, or hereafter to be made or done to the contrary notwithstanding.

2. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for any person or persons using or which shall use the Trade of Merchandise, to transport into any the parts beyond the Seas any of the said Welsh Cloths Cottons Frizes Linings and Plains, out of any Ports or Havens within this Realm of England or Dominion of, or out of any the Members thereof where his Majesty his Heirs or Successors have or shall then have Officers attending to search view and control the same, and to receive the King's Majesty's Customs and other Duties due and payable for the same; So as always the Customs and other Duties payable for such Cloths and other the premisses so to be transported, shall be justly and duly paid for the same; And so as