Every person over 6 years of age shall wear on Sundays a wool
knitted cap made by the cappers, except for maidens, ladies,
gentlewomen, noble persons, and every lord, knight, and gentlemen
with 2,667s. of land, since the practice of not wearing caps has
damaged the capping industry. This employed cappers and poor
people they had employed and the decrepit and lame as carders,
spinners, knitters, parters, forsers, thickers, dressers, dyers,
battelers, shearers, pressers, edgers, liners, and bandmakers.
Rugs shall weigh 44 pounds at least and be 35 yards at least in
length and at most 3/4 yard wide.
The incorporated company of ship masters may erect beacons and
marks on the seashores and hills above, because certain steeples
and other marks used for navigation have fallen down and ships
therefore have been lost in the sea.
There shall be one sheriff per county, because now there are
enough able men to supply one per county.
Trials of noblemen for treason shall be by their peers.
A native or denizen merchant in wholesale or retail goods who
leaves the nation to defraud his creditors shall be declared a
bankrupt. The Chancellor may conduct an investigation to ascertain
his land, house, and goods, no matter who may hold them. They
shall be appraised and sold to satisfy his debts.
Loan contracts for money lent may not be for more than 200s. for
each 2000s. yearly.
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