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T A B L E

O F T H E

Publick and Private Statutes,

C O N T A I N I N G

The TITLES of the ACTS from the First Year of the Reign of Edward IV.
to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.


Anno 1 Edwardi IV.

  1. WHAT Acts done by King Henry the Fourth, Henry the Fifth, and Henry the Sixth, late Kings of England, shall continue good and effectual.
  2. Touching Indictments and Presentments in Sheriffs Turns and Leets.

Anno 3 Edwardi 4.

  1. Concerning the winding, shipping, and transporting of Woolls, Fells, Morlings, or Shorlings.
  2. An Act to restrain the bringing Corn into the Realm, until it shall exceed certain Prices.
  3. Concerning the Mystery of Silk-workers.
  4. Concerning certain Merchandizes not lawful to be brought into this Realm ready wrought.
  5. What Kind of Apparel Men and Women of each Vocation are allowed to wear.

Anno 4 Edwardi 4.

  1. Touching the Length and Breadth of Broad Cloths, Streits, and Kernes.
  2. Concerning the shipping of Merchandizes of the Staple to Calais.
  3. For the shipping at Newcastle the Cloths made in divers Places.
  4. Concerning the Manner of buying of Woolls in certain Counties.
  5. The Merchandizes of the Duchy of Burgundy shall not be brought into this Realm.
  6. Concerning Merchants Aliens Employment of their Money upon Commodities of this Realm.
  7. Touching Cordwayners and Coblers in London, or within Three Miles Compass thereof.
  8. Concerning Homers in the City of London.
  9. Concerning Patten-makers.
  10. The Passage of Pilgrims shall be only at Dover.

Anno 7 Edwardi 4

  1. Touching the Election of the Wardens of Worsted Weavers within the City of Norwich and the County of Norfolk
  2. An Act enabling the Inhabitants of the Hundreds of Liston, Tavestucke, and Rowburgh in the County of Devon, to mix Flocks in the Cloth made of the Wooll growing within the same Hundreds.
  3. No Person shall carry beyond the Seas any Woollen Yarn or Cloth not fulled.
  4. Touching Grants made by the King.
  5. Lands holden of a common Person, coming to the King's Hands by Attainder, being after granted by the King to another, shall be holden as if the Attainder had not been.

Anno 8 Edwardi 4.

  1. The Length, Breadth, and Weight of Woollen Cloths.
  2. Concerning Liveries of Company.
  3. For Jurors of Middlesex.
  4. For pardoning of Sheriffs, Under-sheriffs, &c. for exercising their Offices above One Year.

Anno 12 Edwardi 4.

  1. Sheriff not lawfully discharged, may occupy his Office during Michaelmas Term.
  2. Four Bow-staves Shall be brought into this Realm for every Tun of Merchandize.
  3. For the true Payment of a Subsidy of Tuhnage and Poundage granted to the King; during his Life.
  4. Concerning the Liveries to be given by the Prince of Wales.
  5. Concerning the shipping of Woolls to Calais or Middlesborough.
  6. An Act authorising the Lord Chancellor for Fifteen Years to grant Commissions of Sewers.
  7. For the taking away of Wears and Fishgarths.
  8. An Act for admitting Letters Patents made to Searcher and Surveyors of Victuals.
  9. An Act concerning the Office of Escheators.

Anno 14 Edwardi 4.

  1. An Act for the Protections of such as go in the King's Wars.
  2. 3. An