# Lustrings Act 1696, Section VI


Persons imbezzling, &c. Silk delivered to be wrought up, and also Receivers, &c. liable to Penalties of 13 & 14 Car.II. c.15. and 20 Car. II. c. 6.
And whereas the Silk Manufacturers are obliged from time to time to deliver to their Agents Journeymen Warpers & Winders great Quantities of Silk to work upp which is often by them imbezelled sold or pawned to the great Detriment of the Silk Manufactures of this Kingdome Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Person or Persons whosoever that shall imbezel pawn sell or detaine any of the Silk so delivered or after the same is wrought upp and also all and every Receiver and Receivers Buyer and Buyers or such as take to pawne any of the said Goods shall be subject and liable to all the Penalties Forfeitures and Punishments contained mentioned and provided in one Act of Parliament made in the Thirteenth and Foureteenth Yeares of the Reigne of King Charles the Second intituled An Act for regulating the Trade of Silk Throwing and in another Act made in the Twentieth Yeare of the said King Charles the Second intituled An Act to regulate the Trade of Silk Throwing.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/8-9/36/section/VI (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/lustrings-act-1696/section-VI
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