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5. Provided also and be it enacted, That no person or persons shall incur any penalty for want of Length Breadth or Weight of Cottons under the price of Fifteen pence the yard or two shillings the Goad, so as they be not mixed with Hair or other deceitful Stuff, nor for any others above that price, except they be mixed as aforesaid, or shall shrink above the rate of half a yard in twelve yards in length, or weigh less than fourteen ounces the yard, or hold not full three quarters of a yard broad.

11. ... And one Statute made in the second year of the Reign of the late King 4, by which it is enacted, That no  whole born in  and having Father and Mother born in, shall purchase Lands and Tenements within the Town of Chester and other places named in that Act; and that no  shall be chosen a Citizen or Burgess in any City Borough or Merchant Town, and that  be not put in certain Offices, nor bear Arms, and every Clause thereof; And one other Statute made in the same year, concerning Arrests made by the Inhabitants of , and driving of Distresses into ; And one other Statute made in the same year, concerning  entering into the Counties adjoining, and in the same do burn kill ravish or commit any other Felony or Trespass; And one other Statute made in the same year, by which it is enacted, That the Lords of the Marches of  shall ordain and set sufficient Stuffing and Ward in their Castles and Seigniories of ; And one other Statute made in the same year, by which it is established, That no  be received to purchase Lands or Tenements within England nor within the Boroughs or English Towns of , Nor that no  should be accepted Burgess nor to have any other Liberty within the Realm nor within the Boroughs and Towns aforesaid, and every Clause in every the said Statutes made in the said second year; And one Statute made in the fourth year of the Reign of the late King  4, whereby it is ordained, That no Englishman liege to the King be convicted by any , nor that English Burgesses which have married  women, have Franchises with English Burgesses; And one other Statute made in the same year, by which