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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/encouragement-of-trade-act-1663/section-III",
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  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/15/7",
  "legislation_title": "Encouragement of Trade Act 1663",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/encouragement-of-trade-act-1663",
  "path": "section/III",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "III",
  "heading": "Prices at which Corn may be bought and laid up in Granaries, &c.",
  "text": "And it is hereby further enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That when the prices of Corne or Graine Winchester Measure doe not exceede the Rates following at the Markets Havens or Places where the same shall be bought (viz) The Quarter of Wheate Eight and forty shillings, the Quarter of Rye Two and thirty shillings, the Quarter of Barley or Malt Eight and twenty shillings, the Quarter of Bucke Wheate Eight and twenty shillings, the Quarter of Oates thirteene shillings fower pence, the Quarter of Pease or Beanes Two and thirty shillings That then it shall be lawfull for all and every person and persons (not forestalling nor selling the same in the same Market within three Moneths after the buying thereof) to buy in open Market, and to lay up and keepe in his and their Graineries or Houses, and to sell againe such Corne or Graine of the kinds aforesaid as without fraude and coven shall have beene bought at or under the prices before expressed without incurring any penaltie; Any Law Statute or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding,",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: and O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
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      "label": "X2",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
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      "label": "X3",
      "text": "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]"
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/15/7/section/III",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:31:38.956431+00:00"
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  "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."
}