Confirmation of 10 R. 2, Indemnity, etc. Act 1387
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
(11 Ric. 2) C A P. VII.
"ITEM, Whereas by a Statute made at ,the ninth Year of King Edw . 3. Grandfather of the King that now is, it was ordained and established, That all Merchants, Aliens and Denizens, and all other and every of them, of what Estate and Condition they be, which will buy or sell Corn, Wine,Avoir du pois , Flesh, Fish, and all other Victuals, Wool, Cloths, Wares, Merchandises, and all other Things vendible, from whencesoever they come, by Foreigners or by Denizens, to what Place that it be, be it City, Borough, Town, Port of the Sea, Fair, Market, or other Place within the same Realm, within Franchise or without, may freely, and without Disturbance sell the same to whom please them, as well to Foreigners as Denizens, except to the Enemies of the King and of his Realm. (2) And if percase Disturbance be done to any Merchant, Alien or Denizen, or other, upon the Sale of such Things in City, Borough, Town, Port of the Sea, or other Place which hath a Franchise, and the Mayor, Bailiffs, or other, that having the Keeping of the said Franchise be required, by the said Merchants or other, thereof to make Remedy, and do not, and thereof be attainted, the Franchise shall be taken into the King's Hand; (3) and nevertheless, he and other which have done this Disturbance against this Statute, shall be bound to yield and restore to the said Merchant his double Damages, which he hath sustained by this Occasion. (4) Andif such Disturbance be done to such Merchant, or to other, in Towns and Places where no Franchise is, and the Lord, if he be present or his Bailiff, Constable, or other Warden of the said Towns and Places, in Absence of the Lords thereof, required to do Right, do not, and thereof be attainted, they shall yield to the Plaintiff his double Damages, as afore is said; (5) and the Disturbers in the one Case and the other, as well within Franchise as without, if they be attainted, shall have Imprisonment of one Year, and nevertheless be ransomed at the King's Will. (6) And that no Alien nor Denizen upon the same Pains be disturbed, but that he may freely buy the Things above named in the Places aforesaid, and carry the same where pleaseth him to his own Use, or to the Profit of the King, the great Men and the People of the Realm, (7) except that the Merchants Aliens shall carry...
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