The regulation of the Silk Throwers company restricting the number
of spindles to be worked at one time is voided because it has
taken livelihoods away and caused foreign thrown silk to be
imported.
Buttons on garments must be made of silk, mohair, gimp, and thread
and by needle to keep employed the many throwers, twisters,
spinners, winders, and dyers preparing the materials for these
buttons. No button may be made of cloth or wood.
No tobacco maybe grown in England because the colonies would be
discouraged from growing it and the king would not receive customs
from it.
No goods are to be imported to or exported from America, Asia, or
Africa except in English ships, with masters and 3/4 of the
mariners Englishmen. No manufacture of Europe may be imported into
any colony or territory except shipped from England in English
ships manned by Englishmen. As of 1672, if bond is not given for
colonial exports of sugar, ginger, tobacco, cotton, indigo, cacao
nuts, or fustic [tree that yields a yellow dye] and other dye-
woods going to England, a duty must be paid. As of 1696, no
colonial goods are to be imported or exported or carried from from
one colony to another, except in ships owned and built in England,
Ireland, or the colonies with the masters and three fourths of the
mariners from such places. These navigation acts were strictly
enforced.
Only persons with lands and tenements or estate worth over 100
pounds per year or having a lease of at least 99 years worth 150
pounds per year and owners and keepers of forests or parks may
have any guns, bows, greyhounds, hunting dogs such as setting
dogs, snares, or other hunting equipment.
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