Section X Wardens sealing Stuffs found defective by a Jury.

Penalty on Wardens to be imposed by Jury.; The same Jury may inquire into all other Frauds, &c. of Wardens and Assistants; and may punish.

And it is further enacted That if any Warden or Wardens shall at any time seale or cause to be sealed any Stuffs made under the said regulation which shall afterwards be discovered by any person to be defective contrary to this present Act and the By lawes Rules and Ordinances thereupon made or hereafter to bee made or any of them and found soe to bee by a Jury of twelve Artificers of the said Trade from time to time to be impannelled and sworn before the said Maior or his Deputie and the said Steward of the Dutchy of Lancaster for the time being if he be there present And if the said Steward be absent then before the said Maior or his Deputy only X1of which Jury six shall bee of the said City Weavers and the other Six of the said Countrey Weavers who shall have and hereby have power to sett and impose a Fine upon the Warden or Wardens of the said Trade offending for every peice of defective Stuff so sealed as the same Jury in theire discretion shall thinke fitt the same Fine not exceeding the su[m]m of fourty shillings which shall be to the use of the Kings Majestie And that the same Jury or any other such like Jury from time to time to be impannelled by and sworn before the persons aforesaid or any of them shall likewise enquire into all and every other the frauds abuses and Miscarriages of the Wardens and Assistents and every of them in the Execution of theire Offices and correct and punish them and every of them for theire severall offences in such manner as is herein before mentioned to bee done against any other offenders who are under the said Regulation