The price of silver is fixed at 30s. for a pound, to increase the
value of silver coinage, which has become scarce due to its higher
value when in plate or masse.
A designee of the king will inspect and seal cloth with lead to
prevent deceit. Cloth may not be tacked together before
inspection. No cloth may be sold until sealed.
Heads of arrows shall be hardened at the points with steel and
marked with the mark of the arrowsmith who made it, so they are
not faulty.
Shoemakers and cordwainers may tan their leather, but all leather
must be inspected and marked by a town official before it is sold.
Cordwainers shall not tan leather [to prevent deceitful tanning].
Tanners who make a notorious default in leather which is found by
a cordwainer shall make a forfeiture.
Defective embroidery for sale shall be forfeited.
No fishing net may be fastened or tacked to posts, boats, or
anchors, but may be used by hand, so that fish are preserved and
vessels may pass.
No one may import any articles which could be made in the nation,
including silks, bows, woolen cloths, iron and hardware goods,
harness and saddlery, except printed books.
The following merchandise shall not be brought into the nation
already wrought: woolen cloth or caps, silk laces, ribbons,
fringes, and embroidery, gold laces, saddles, stirrups, harnesses,
spurs, bridles, gridirons, locks, hammers, fire tongs, dripping
pans, dice, tennis balls, points, purses, gloves, girdles, harness
for girdles of iron steel or of tin, any thing wrought of any
treated leather, towed furs, shoes, galoshes, corks, knives,
daggers, woodknives, thick blunt needles, sheers for tailors,
scissors, razors, sheaths, playing cards, pins, pattens [wooden
shoes on iron supports worn in wet weather], pack needles, painted
ware, forcers, caskets, rings of copper or of gilt sheet metal,
chaffing dishes, hanging candlesticks, chaffing balls, mass bells,
rings for curtains, ladles, skimmers, counterfeit felt hat moulds,
water pitchers with wide spouts, hats, brushes, cards for wool,
white iron wire, upon pain of their forfeiture.
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