Retailers of wine may not add to imported wines cider, honey,
sugar, molasses, lime, raisin juice, or herbs.
Butter sold must be of one sort and not contain bad butter mixed
in with good butter. Butter pots must bear the name or mark of
their potter.
Salt may be sold only by weight, to avoid deceit by retailers and
wrong to buyers.
No sheep, wool, woolfels, shearlings, yarn, fuller's earth, or
fulling clay may be exported as has secretly been done, so that
the poor of the realm may have work.
Fishermen may sell their fish to others than Fishmongers at
Billingsgate fish market because the Fishmongers have forestalled
the market and set their own prices. The buyers of such fish may
resell them in any other London market by retail, except than only
Fishmongers may sell in shops or houses.
No tanned or untanned skin or hide of any ox, steer, bull, cow, or
calf may be exported because the price of leather has risen
excessively and leather workers can't get enough raw material to
carry on their trade and because poor people cannot afford leather
items they need.
The newly incorporated Company of Silk Throwers (drew the silk off
the cocoon) employs many of the poor, but others practice the
trade, so an apprenticeship of seven years is required to practice
the trade in the realm. Winders or doublers who purloin or
embezzle and sell silk from the thrower who employs him and the
buyer of such silk shall make such recompense as ordered by a
Justice of the Peace or be whipped or set in the stocks for the
first offence.
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