Section IX No persons, not having served Apprenticeship, to make Broad Cloths for Sale; Penalty. Exception.

How Penalty to be disposed of. Persons not being free of the Trade, or Widow of Freeman, not to make Cloths.; Exception.; Penalty.

And be it further enacted That no person or persons within the said Westriding who hath not served as an Apprentice to the Trade of Clothier for the space of Seaven yeares or have not been exercised therein by the like space of seven yeares before shall make any Broad Cloath to sell under the penalty of five pounds for every Moneth that he shee or they shall continue to exercise the said Trade (excepting such persons only as now be in the actual use and exercise of the said Trade) the one Moyety thereof to be paid to the Kings Majesty His Heires and Successors and the other Moyety to the use of the said Corporation And that no Housholder or Housewife within the said West Riding or elsewhere within the said County not being free of the said Trade of Clothiers X1or not having been exercised therein as aforesaid or not being the widdow of any such person as aforesaid shall from the Feast of Pentecost next ensuing make or cause to bee made any Woollen Cloth whatsoever unlesse it be to the use of themselves their Children and Families but not to sell upon pain to forfeit double value for every Peice of Cloth so made and exposed to sale one moyety thereof to His Majesty the other moyety to any person who shall sue for the same in any of His Majesties Courts of Records in which no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed