# Making of Stuffs in Norfolk and Norwich Act 1662, Section IX: Stuffs and Makers of Stuffs to be under the Government of Wardens and Assistants.


Stuffs before offered for Sale to be brought to Weavers Hall; and if well made, to be sealed and allowed; if defective, seized and tried.; Regulations as to Jury, and impannelling.; Power of Jury to try the Stuffs and impose Fine.; Defective Stuffs to be detained until Fine paid; how to be disposed of if Fine not paid.
And it is hereby further enacted That all sorts of Stuffs whether woven of Woollen only or of Wool and other Materials within the City and County of Norwich and the County of Norfolke and the Makers and Weavers of the same Stuffs shall be under the power goverment and regulation of the said Wardens & Assistants in such manner as by this and other Acts of Parliament and the By Lawes made and to be made by vertue thereof are or shall be established (except such Stuffs as are under the regulation of the Wardens and Fellowshipp of the mystery of Russell Sattens, Sattens, Reverses and Fustians of Norwich making within the City of Norwich) And that all Stuffs made or to be made under the Regulation aforesaid before the same shall be offered or put to sale shall be brought to Weavers Hall for the time being within the County of the City of Norwich to be veiwed and searched by the said Wardens or any two of them And if the same shall be found to be well and sufficiently made and wrought according to the Rules and Ordinances of the said Trade then all such Stuffs shall bee by the Wardens or any two of them sealed and allowed accordingly without any sum of money paid or to be paid for the same And if upon search and veiw thereof any such Stuffs shall be found and appeare to be defective contrary to the Rules and Ordinances of the said Wardens and Assistants then all such defective Stuffs shall be seized by the said Wardens or any two of them and tried by a Jury of twelve Artificers of the said Regulation of Worsted Weavers Six whereof to be of the City of Norwich and Six to be of the County of Norfolke who shall be from time to time impannelled by a Precept under the Hand and Seale of the Maior of the Citty of Norwich for the time being or his Deputie And if any who shall be so impannelled shall fail in appearance the number to be made up either of the Master Weavers of the City of Norwich or of the County of Norfolke by a Precept from the said Maior which Jury so impannelled or taken & sworn before the Maior of the said City for the time being shall try the said Stuffs and find whether they bee made according to this Act and the By Lawes and Ordinances made by vertue thereof or of any other Act of Parliament and shall have power to impose a moderate Fine according to the nature of the offence not exceeding the moyety of the value of the defective Stuffs so seized and tried the same Fines to goe to the use of the Trade and Manufacture And those Stuffs which shall be found defective to bee detained untill the Fine or Fines set upon them by the Jury be paid which if the Owner of the same Stuffs shall not pay to the said Wardens or some of them within forty dayes after the Tryall then the same Stuffs to be sold by any two of the said Wardens and the overplus of the moneyes thereof coming after the Fines deducted to be restored to the Owner upon demaund

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