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A.D. 1623-4]
THE STATUTES OF WALES
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A.D. 1623-4]
21 James 1, c. 28, ss. 5, 11.

An Act concerning Welsh Cottons and repealing laws of Henry 4 and Henry 6 against Welshmen.

5. Provided also and be it enacted, That no person or persons shall incur any penalty for want of Length Breadth or Weight of Welsh Cottons under the price of Fifteen pence the yard or two shillings the Goad, so as they be not mixed with Hair or other deceitful Stuff, nor for any others above that price, except they be mixed as aforesaid, or shall shrink above the rate of half a yard in twelve yards in length, or weigh less than fourteen ounces the yard, or hold not full three quarters of a yard broad.

11. ... And one Statute made in the second year of the Reign of the late King Henry 4, by which it is enacted, That no Welshman whole born in Wales and having Father and Mother born in Wales, shall purchase Lands and Tenements within the Town of Chester and other places named in that Act; and that no Welshman shall be chosen a Citizen or Burgess in any City Borough or Merchant Town, and that Welshmen be not put in certain Offices, nor bear Arms, and every Clause thereof; And one other Statute made in the same year, concerning Arrests made by the Inhabitants of Wales, and driving of Distresses into Wales; And one other Statute made in the same year, concerning Welshmen entering into the Counties adjoining, and in the same do burn kill ravish or commit any other Felony or Trespass; And one other Statute made in the same year, by which it is enacted, That the Lords of the Marches of Wales shall ordain and set sufficient Stuffing and Ward in their Castles and Seigniories of Wales; And one other Statute made in the same year, by which it is established, That no Welshman be received to purchase Lands or Tenements within England nor within the Boroughs or English Towns of Wales, Nor that no Welshman should be accepted Burgess nor to have any other Liberty within the Realm nor within the Boroughs and Towns aforesaid, and every Clause in every the said Statutes made in the said second year; And one Statute made in the fourth year of the Reign of the late King Henry 4, whereby it is ordained, That no Englishman liege to the King be convicted by any Welshman, nor that English Burgesses which have married Welsh women, have Franchises with English Burgesses; And one other Statute made in the same year, by which