{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wool-act-1662/section-X",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wool-act-1662/section-X.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/14/18",
  "legislation_title": "Wool Act 1662",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wool-act-1662",
  "path": "section/X",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "X",
  "heading": "Owners and Mariners of Ships exporting Wool, &c. within Three Months after knowing thereof, giving Information to the Court of Exchequer,",
  "text": "on Oath of the Particulars of the said Goods; such Owners, &c. not punishable for Felony, but remain subject to Penalties.; Exportation a common Nuisance.\nProvided alwaies That if any Owner of any Ship or Vessel or any Master or Mariner knowing of such Transportation of such Sheep Wooll Woolfels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woolflocks Fullers Earth Fulling Clay or Tobacco pipe Clay shall within three monthes next after the knowledge thereof or after his returne into the Kingdom of England or Ireland or into the said Town of Berwick or Dominion of Wales aforesaid give the first information bona fide before any of the Barons of either of the Courts of the Exchequer in England or Ireland for the time being or before the Head Officer of any Port where he shall first arrive upon his or theire Oath of the number and quantity of the Goods mentioned in this Act so carried conveyed & transported and by whom where and in what Shipp or Vessell and afterwards shall be ready upon reasonable warning by Processe to justifie and prove the same that then such Owner or Owners Master Mariner and Mariners shall not be punished for Felony by vertue of this Act but shall neverthelesse be subject to all other penalties and forfeitures in this or any other Act contained for the Offence aforesaid and all such Exportation Transportation carrying or conveying of any the Goods Wares or Comodities in this Act mentioned is hereby declared and adjudged to be a common and publicke Nusance",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/14/18/section/X",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:31:55.744709+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}