Section VIII Power to Searchers to enter Shops, Warehouses, &c. to search for suspected Cloths. Party resisting, Penalty £10. If faulty Cloth found, forfeited, and may be disposed of by the said Justices &c.

And it is further enacted That it shall and may be lawfull to and for all and every such Searcher and Searchers from time to time so often as occasion shall require to enter into any Shop House Ware house or any other place in the day time of any Clothiers Drapers Cloth workers or of any other person or persons whatsoever where any of the said Clothes shall be within the said Westriding to search for all suspected Cloth And in case of Resistance the party so resisting shall forfeit the su[m]m of ten pounds the one halfe thereof to his Majestie the other halfe to the use of the said Corporation And if upon such search any Broad Cloth shall be found made of or mixed with Flocks Thrums Goats hair or other deceitful Wool the said Cloth shall be and is hereby declared and enacted to be forfeited And that it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Justices Masters Wardens and Assistants or any thirteen of them at any Court to bee by them held as aforesaid to dispose thereof in such manner as by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realm the same ought to be disposed