# Woollen Cloth Act 1662, Section XV: No Persons free of the said Corporation enabled by this Act to lower Wages as allowed by Quarter Sessions.


Provided alwaies and it is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That neither the said Supervisers Masters Wardens and Assistants nor any of them nor any other person or persons free of the said Corporation of Broad Woollen Clothiers shall by any Authority derived from this Act or by colour thereof set or impose any other or lesser Rates or Wages upon any inferiour Workmen Servants or Labourers to bee imployed by them or any of them in the said Manufacture then such as shall bee from time to time allowed and approved of by the Justices of the Peace in theire Quarter Sessions according to the Lawes and Statutes touching Labourers in that case made and provided.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/14/32/section/XV (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/woollen-cloth-act-1662/section-XV
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