A briefe of the Act for the reliefe of the marchants of the estaple. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B14597 of text S123629 in the English Short Title CatalogTextual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B14597 STC 16779.4 Interim Tract Supplement Guide Harl.7614[116] ESTC S123629 99892545 ocm99892545 188905 2264199636

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B14597) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 188905) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; C14:1[45]) A briefe of the Act for the reliefe of the marchants of the estaple. 1 sheet ([1] p.). s.n., [London : 1624?] "Requesting permission to sell wool and woolfells in England whenever they are prohibited from trading abroad." -- STC. Imprint from STC. Probably in response to STC 8687: By the King. A proclamation for preventing exportation of woolles, woolle-fels, ... . Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Staple Company of England -- Early works to 1800. Wool industry -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo A briefe of the Act for the reliefe of the marchants of the estaple. . n/a 1624 2 313 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2014-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2014-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-02 Sampled and proofread 2014-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Briefe of the Act for the reliefe of the Marchants of the Estaple .

FIrst , that the Marchants of the Estaple of England are and haue been a verie auncient and famous Company , of greate esteeme with strangers in other nations ; Profitable members of this Common wealth , and in times past great aduauncers of the Kinges customes and reuenues .

Secondlie , that the said Company aswel by diuers lawes and statutes of this realme , as by letters patents from his highnes progenitors , haue had power and authoritie to keepe the Estaple in England , at Westminster and London ; and beyond the seas , in France Flaunders Zealand , Brabant and else where .

Thirdlie , that the said Company are enabled by diuers lawes & Letters-patents to buy all sortes of woolls and woolfells within this Realme , and to transported so much of the same woolls as are fit for the Staple , and to sell the rest againe in England .

Fourthlie , that the Kinges Maiestie and his Councell haue of late prohibited and whollie restrained the said Company from their auncient trade of shipping and transporting .

Fiftly , that the Company being not suffred to transport haue put their woolls to sale in England to their great losse .

Sixtlie , that many of the Company haue been sued and exceedinglie molested by Informers for selling the same woolls in England , which they were absolutely commanded not to transport .

That whensoeuer the said Company of Marchants of the Estaple of England are or shal be prohibited and restrayned from their accustomed shipping and transporting of their woolls and woolfells , That then it maie bee lawfull for the said Company to sell their woolls and woolfells in England without penalty or forfeiture .