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Scavage Act 1503

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1503 c. 8
Statutes made at Westminster, Anno 19 Hen VII. and Anno Dom 1503 Shewage, Scavage. *

(19 Hen. 7) C A P. VIII.

'TO the King our Sovereign Lord, prayen the Commons in this your present Parliament assembled, That where the Merchants and Iahabitants of divers Cities, Boroughs, and Towns within this Realm, and as well divers Tenants of our said Sovereign Lord the King, as of other, that have by Grants made by the noble Progenitors and Predecessors of our said Sovereign Lord, as well to them by such Name or Names as they or any of them be Corporate, as by Grants made unto divers Lords both Spiritual and Temporal, and by Prescription, that they, their Tenants, Resiants, and Inhabitants within their several Lordships, Boroughs, and Towns, should be quit and discharged of divers and many Customs, as of Tolls and of other Exactions demanded and asked by divers Mayors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, and other Officers of divers Cities, Boroughs, and Towns within this Realm, for their singular Lucre, of Merchants Denizens and of the King's true Subjects born, dwelling and inhabiting within this Realm, contrary to their said Privilege, and lately more and otherwise than in Times passed, have distrained, levied, and taken of them a certain Custom calledScavage , otherwise called Shewage , to their great Charge and Trouble, which Scavage was never used to be taken nor levied but only of Merchant Strangers:' (2) Be it therefore ordained, established, and enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, and by the Assent

*Shewage or Scavage signifies a Kind of Toll exacted by Mayors, &c. for Wares shewed or exposed to Sale within their Liberties .

of the LordsSpiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, That if any Mayor, Sheriff, Bailiff, or other Officer in any City, Borough or Town within this Realm, distrain, take, or levy any Custom calledScavage , otherwise called Shewage , of any MerchantDenizen, or of any other of the King's Subjects Denizens, of or for any Manner of Merchandise to our Sovereign Lord the King before truly customed, that is...

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