Section XI 7 & 8 W. III. c. 28. § 6.;

Hundred of Winchelsea, in respect of the said Act, taken as Two distinct Hundreds.

And whereas by an Act made in the Parliament held in the Seventh and Eighth Years of His present Majesty intituled An Act for the more effectual preventing the Exportation of Wooll and for the incourageing the Importation thereof from Ireland amongst other things it is enacted That the Hundred out of which any Wooll shall be exported be liable to such Penalties and Forfeitures as is mentioned in the said Act but the Hundred of Winchelsea in the Cinque-Ports being divided by a Navigable Arm of the Sea so that the Inhabitants on X1the one side thereof cannot be privy to or prevent what is done by those of the other side Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Hundred of Winchelsea shall be deemed and taken in respect to the said Act as Two distinct Hundreds (that is to say) the Part of the one side of the said Arm of the Sea as one Hundred and the Part on the other side as one other intire Hundred and the Penalties which may be forfeited for suffering such Exportation shall affect charge and be levyed on that Part only of the said Hundred which lies on the same side of the said Arm of the Sea out of which such Exportation was made and permitted Any thing in this or any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided nevertheless That nothing in this Act shall be construed to extend to divide the said Hundred in any other Particular but in this only.