{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-with-france-act-1688/section-IV",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-with-france-act-1688/section-IV.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/1/34",
  "legislation_title": "Trade with France Act 1688",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-with-france-act-1688",
  "path": "section/IV",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "IV",
  "heading": "Person, not being a Merchant, &c. selling such Goods",
  "text": "Punishment.\nAnd forasmuch as the Commodities and Manufactures of the Territories and Dominions of the French King prohibited by this Act are often sold by persons not being knowne Merchants Vintners or Shopkeepers Bee it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That if any person not being a knowne Merchant Vintner or Shopkeeper shall from and after the first day of September one thousand six hundred eighty nine sell or expose to sale or be found to have sold or exposed to sale any of the Commodities or Manufactures soe prohibited as aforesaid (and shall be thereof lawfully convicted by Indictment Information or otherwise in any of their Majestyes Courts of Record) shall over and above the penalties aforesaid suffer twelve months Imprisonment without Baile or Mainprize",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/1/34/section/IV",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:26:07.313805+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."
}