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Aulneger, Foreign and other Merchants, Forestalling, Weirs Act 1350

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 2 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1350 c. 2
Statute of Cloths, made Anno 25 Edw . III. Stat . 4. and Anno Dom 1350 Merchant Strangers may buy and sell without Disturbance.

(25 Edw. 3 St. 3) C A P. II.

‘I T E M, Whereas it is contained in a Statute made atYork the Ninth Year of the Reign of our Lord the King that now is, that all Merchants, Aliens, and Dentzens, and all other, and every of them, of what Estate or Condition they were, which would buy or sell Corn, Wine, Avoir de pois , Flesh, Fish, and all other Livings and Victual, Cloths, Chaffer, Woolls, Merchandises, or any other Things vendible, from what Party they come, by Foreigners or by Denizens, to what Place soever it be, Borough, Town, Port of the Sea, Fair, Market, or other Place within this Realm, within Franchises or without, may freely and without Disturbance sell the same to whom please them, as well to Foreigners as to Denizens, except *the King's Enemies :’ '(2) it is accorded by our Lord the King, the Prelates, Earls, Barons, and other great Men, and the Commons in this present Parliament, That the said Statute, in all Points and Articles contained in the same, be holden, kept, and maintained. (3) And if that any Statute, Charter, Letters Patents, Proclamation, or Commandment, Usage, Allowance, or Judgement be made to the contrary, the same shall be openly repealed, void, and holden for none. (4) Andmoreover, that every Merchant, or other, of what Condition he be, as well Alien as Denizen, that bring Wines, Flesh, Fish, or other Victuals, Cloths, Woolfels,Avoir de pois , or any other Manner of Merchandises, or Chaffer, to the City of London , or other Cities, Boroughs, and good Towns of England , or Ports of the Sea, may freely, and without Challenge or Impeachment of any, sell in gross or at Retail, or by Parcels, at his Will, to all Manner of People that will buy the same, notwithstanding any Franchises, Grants, or Custom used, or any other Things...

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