Cloths Act 1514
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1514 c. 9 |
(6 Hen. 8) C A P. IX.
FOR the deceitful draping and making of Woollen Cloths, made and draped within this Realm, and also for measuring in the Sale of the same, our Sovereign Lord the King, by the Advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and of the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, hath ordained, established, and enacted divers Ordinances and Statutes for the true making and draping of such Woollen Cloths, and for measuring in Sale the true Content of the same in Manner and Form following: (2)First, That the Wool which shall be delivered for or by the Clothier to any Person or Persons for breaking, kembing, carding, or spinning of the same, the Delivery thereof therefore shall be by even, just, and true Poise and Weight ofHaverdepois , sealed by Authority, not exceeding in Weight after the Rate of Twelve Pounds seimed Wool, above one Quarter of a Pound for the Waste of the same Wool, and in none other Manner. (3)And that the Breaker or Kember to deliver again to the same Clothier the same Wool so broken and kembed, and the Carder and Spinner to deliver again to the said Clothier Yarn of the same Wool, by the same even, just, and true Poise and Weight (the Waste thereof excepted) without any Part thereof concealing, or any more Oil, Water, or other Thing put thereupon deceivably, (4) upon the Pain to forfeit to the Lord of the Leet within the Precinct whereof such Default is done, for every such Defaultxij. d . upon due Proof of such Deceit afore, and by the Discretion of the Mayor, Bailiff, or other Head Officer of the City, Borough, or Town where the Deceit shall appear, the same Mayor, Bailiff, or Head Officer calling to him such Persons as shall seem to him convenient for the Proof of such Deceit.
II A Weaver shall put all the Yarn into the Web, or restore it.
II.Item , That the Weaver which shall have the weaving of any Woollen Yarn to be webbed into Cloth, shall weave, work, and put into the Web for Cloth to be made thereof, as much, and all the same Yarn, as the Clothier, or any Person for him, shall deliver to the same Weaver, with his used Mark put to the same, without changing, or any Parcel thereof leaving out of the same Web, or that to restore to the same Clothier the Surplus of the same Yarn, if...
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