Section III III.X1
After 29th Sept. 1701, importing, except into the Port of London, and not making due Entry, taken to be a clandestine Running; Loss of Goods and Penalty £500.
And for preventing all Clandestine importing or bringing into this Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick upon Tweed any of the aforesaid Goods hereby prohibited or intended to be prohibited from being worne or used in England Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Person or Persons or Bodies Corporate from and after the said Twenty ninth Day of September One thousand seaven hundred and one shall import or bring into any Port of or in this Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick upon Tweed other than the Port of London any of the aforesaid prohibited Goods or into the Port of London and shall not make due Entries of such Goods soe imported or brought in, the same shall be and is hereby adjudged deemed accounted and taken to be Clandestine running thereof and such Person or Persons or Bodies Corporate soe offending therein and their Abettors shall not only forfeite and loose the said Goods soe clandestinely run as aforesaid but alsoe the Summe of Five hundred Pounds to be recovered and divided in such Manner as aforesaid
Annotations
Editorial notes
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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: or O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]