{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/exportation-of-leather-act-1662/section-XIII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/exportation-of-leather-act-1662/section-XIII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/14/7",
  "legislation_title": "Exportation of Leather Act 1662",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/exportation-of-leather-act-1662",
  "path": "section/XIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XIII",
  "heading": "Recital of 1 Jac. 1. c. 22.",
  "text": "Master and Wardens of Curriers Company may in the Day- time enter Shops, &c. in London, or within Three Miles thereof, belonging to Artificers in cutting Leather, and search and seize.; Such Persons opposing Search, &c.; Penalty £20.; or refusing to be present at Search, Penalty £10.\nAnd whereas it is enacted amongst other things by the said act made in the First yeare of King James that no person or persons shall by any meanes occupy or put in any made wares within the City of London or three miles of the same City any Curryed Leather before the same shall be searched and allowed by the Wardens of the Curryers of London for the time being or such persons as they shall thereto assign and be sealed with a Seale therefore to be prepared upon pain that every Shoemaker and other Artificer Cutter of Leather offending against that Article should forfeit for every Hide or Skin otherwise curryed or imployed as is aforesaid Six shillings eight pence and the value of every such Hide or Skin Be it therefore further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Master and Wardens of the Company of Curriers for the time being or such persons as they shall thereto assign shall from time to time and att all seasonable times in the day time enter into any Ware House Shopp Celler or other place within the said City of London or three miles of the same City belonging unto any the said Cordwainers Sadlers Girdlers or other person or persons being Artificers dealing in cutting Leather and in the presence of any two or more of them to search for and seize all such Leather intended to bee prohibited to be used by the said Clause Branch or Article as aforesaid as alsoe for all Wares made of such Leather and if any such person or persons Artificers or Dealers as aforesaid shall oppose or refuse to permit the said Master and Wardens of the Company of Curriers or such persons as they shall thereto assign to make any such search or seisure as aforesaid hee or they shall forfeit for every such offence the su[m]m of Twenty pounds for the uses and to be recovered as aforesaid And if any of the said Artificers and Dealers in cutting of Leather do refuse to be present with the said Searchers whensoever the same shall be desired by the said Master and Wardens of the Company of the Curriers or such persons thereto assigned by them as aforesaid then for every such default the persons so refusing shall forfeit the su[m]m of Ten pounds for the uses and to bee recovered as aforesaid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: of O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/14/7/section/XIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:32:06.097768+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."
}