Section VI

No Wool, &c. to be carried by Land to Scotland, or to the Sea Coast, but as herein mentioned; Penalty.; Ships exporting Wool; Penalty.; Penalty on Inhabitants of certain exempt Places, according to the Value of the Wool.

And whereas the several Inhabitants of the several Counties and Shires of this Realme next adjoyning to the Kingdome of Scotland and to the Sea Coasts doe reap great Profitt & Advantage by the carrying out of Wooll Wooll Fells Mortlings Shortlings Yarn made of Wooll Wooll Flocks Fullers Earth & Scouring Clay into the said Kingdome of Scotland and exporting of them into France and other Parts beyond the Seas to the great prejudice and decay of the Woollen Manufacture of this Realme Bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the First day of May in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety six no Wooll or any other of the Co[m]modities aforesaid shall be laid or loaden on any Horse or other Carriage whatsoever or shall bee carried or conveyed by Land to or from any Place or Places within the said Counties next adjoyning to the said Kingdome of Scotland or within Five Miles of the Sea X1Cost as aforesaid but between Sun riseing and Sun setting under the Penalty and Forfeiture of the said Co[m]modities and of the said Horses and other Cattle and Carriages imployed in carrying the same And that no Shipp or Vessell shall export or carry the same into any Part beyond the Seas under the Penalty and Forfeiture of the said Co[m]modities Shipp and Vessell and Treble the Value thereof with Treble Costs of Suit And the Inhabitants of the respective Hundred Port or Place exempt next adjoyning to the said Kingdom of Scotland or to the Sea Coasts out of or through which any Wooll or any other of the Co[m]modities aforesaid shall be so carried or exported shall forfeit Twenty Pounds if the said Wooll so carried out or exported shall bee under the Value of Ten Pounds but if it shall be of greater Value then Treble the Value thereof so exported or carried out of the said Kingdom as also Treble Costs of Suit all which said Forfeitures Penalties and Costs of Suit are to be recovered and received by him or them that shall sue for the same and to be prosecuted by any Action of Debt Bill Suit Plaint or Information against the Inhabitants of such Hundred Port or Place exempt out of or through which the said Wooll or other Comodities shall be exported in any of His Majesties Courts of Record att Westminster where noe Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall bee allowed nor any more then one Imparlance.