# Exportation Act 1660, Section III: Penalties by Exporters;


by Owners of Ships exporting.
And be it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That all and every the Offender and Offenders offence and offences aforesaid shall be subject and lieable to the respective paines penaltyes and forfeitures hereafter following That is to say The said sheepe wools woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarne made of wooll woolflocks Fullers earth and fulling clay soe exported transported carryed conveyed packed or loaden contrary to the true intent of this Act shall be forfeited and that every offender and offenders therein shall forfeit twenty shillings for every such sheepe and three shillings for every pound weight of such wooll woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarne made of wooll woolflocks Fullers earth or Fulling Clay, And alsoe the owners of the said Shipps or Vessells knowing such offence shall forfeit all their Interest in the said Shipps or Vessells with all their Apparell and Furniture to them and every of them belonging, And that the Master and Marriners thereof knowing such offence and wittingly and willingly aiding and assisting thereunto shall forfeite all their Goods and Chattels and have imprisonment for the space of three moneths without Baile or Maineprize, the one moyety of which said penaltyes and forfeitures shall be to the Kings Majestie His Heires and Successors, and the other moyety to him that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majestyes Courts of Record or before the Justices of Assize or in the Generall Quarter Sessions of the Peace In which Suite noe Essoyne Protection or wager of Law shall be allowed,

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/12/32/section/III (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/exportation-act-1660/section-III
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