{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/burying-in-woollen-act-1678/section-II",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/burying-in-woollen-act-1678/section-II.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/30/3",
  "legislation_title": "Burying in Woollen Act 1678",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/burying-in-woollen-act-1678",
  "path": "section/II",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": "Burying in any other than Woollen;",
  "text": "Penalty £5.\nAnd it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the First day of August One thousand six hundred and seaventy eight noe Corps of any person or persons shall be buryed in any Shirt Shift Sheete or Shroud or any thing whatsoever made or mingled with Flax Hempe Silke Haire Gold or Silver or in any Stuffe or thing other then what is made of Sheeps Wooll onely or be putt into any Coffin lined or faced with any sort of Cloath or Stuffe or any other thing whatsoever that is made of any Materiall but Sheeps Wooll onely upon paine of the Forfeiture of Five pounds of lawfull Money of England to be recovered and divided as is hereafter in this Act expressed and directed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/30/3/section/II",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:27:16.990557+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}