3 54 KING JAMES THE S E X T
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fall fearch , feeke , take , and apprehend all and ftndrie perfones , contraveeners thereof, keip , and caufe reteine their perfones in warde, within their Tolbuithes: Fenfe and arreift their fchips, Creares and ve- fchelles, take the failesfra the Raes, and keip them under arreiftment , at his Majefties inftance , quhair- thiow they departe not : Notifiand their names to his Hienes, that his Majeftie may give furder direction towards them , as apperteinis : AsthefaidisProveftes, Baillies, Cuflomers, andfearchoureswillanfwereto hisHienefie, upon their office and obedience: The quhilk- adt, our faid Soveraine Lord and Eftaites fore- faidis , ordainis to ftande as ane law , in all time cumming. a 54. Forbidden guddes fidd pay cujiome. ,UR SOVERAINE LORDE, And Eftaites of Parliament, ftatutis and ordainis , thatin-cafe ony of the forbidden guddes under written, bee tranfported upon licence foorth of this Cuntrie: The tranfoorters fall pay therefore , the cuftomes under-written , To wit , for ilk ftane of wooll , five fhillinges: Ilk douzane elnes of linning claith , foure fliillinges : Ilk boll of vicinal, five fhillinges, and ilk poundes woorth of forbidden Englijh wares , in-brocht to this Cuntrie upon licence , twelve pennies. O 1 5 5- . All coc queues Jidd be fpeciall , and conteine the particular kindes ofMerchandice. ITEM, It is ftatute and ordained, for efchewing of the damnage and skaith quhilk dailie arifis , throw generall and informall cocquettes , given and graunted within this Realme: That in all times cumming, aii"Cierkes of the Cocquet, fall particularlie expreeme and fpecifle in the Cocquettes given be them, the particular quantities 01 the guddes and merchandices, the fpecial kindes and fortes thereof: The 1. t A ?of th =■ Merchandes , and awners of the famin •. How meikle of the fame guddes perteinis to ilk Merchand : And tha . rhe Confervatour in the Law-Cuntries , admit nor allow ony Cocquet , except it be written and formed inmanerforefaid, bot fall confrfcate all the faidis guddes, nocht expreemed particularlie , as faid is : And make compt and reckoning thereof zeirlie to the 1 hefaurar , as he will anfwere upon his office. 2 5 6. All Schippes fuld have ane fuffcient Cocquet. IT Is ftatute and ordained , becaufe the Cocquet is the Schippes pafportandieftimdnialofherlauefoful- ncfle ; That the Confervatour fall fenfe and arreift all Schippes nocht havand ane Cocquet , or nocht hav- and ane Cocquet formelie written : And efcheit the haill guddes and geare being in the faid Schip , to our So- veraine Lordis ufe , and make compt thereof zeirlie in the Checker to the Thefaurar. '157- The aith of the <JMerchand.es , Skippers, and Fall wires , paffand to and fra the Law-cuntries, and furth of this Realme. ITEM, The Confervatour fall nocht receive or admit ony Cocquet , albeit the fame be lauchfullie given, except the Merchandes , Skippers, Factoures, and everie ane of them , before the lofTing of ony of their guddes , make faith , and fweare folemnedlie be God himfelfe his Creator , that hee lies na forbidden guddes or geare , nor na uther lauchfull merchandices , by, and attour that quhilk is conteined in the Cocquet : Nor knawis of nane to be in the famin Schip, perteining to uthers : And that fa far as he underftandis , the haill guddes and geare perteinis properlie to free men , and na part thereof to un- freemen ; As alfwa at their back 1 returning fra the Law-cuntrie s , tow ardes Scotland ': Ihey fall likewifc give their folemne aithes , before the laidening of the Schip , or inputting of ony guddes , that the guddes properlie perteinis to themfelves, and nocht to ftrangers : And gif they lolie onie guddes and geare cummand trom Scot laud, before the giving of the faide aith , or puttis ony guddes in Schip-buird , to be tranfported towardes Scotland , all the fame guddes to bee confifcate. And gif the faid aith be refuled be them all , and they nawaies will make the fame : It fall be leafum to the Confervatour , to arreiit the faide Schippe , and all the guddes conteined therein : And gif fome makis aith , and uthers refufis , hee fall arreift all the guddes pertemand to the partie retufand : And make compt thereof, as faide is : And quhat-fum-ever guddes is nocht conteined in the Cocquet , to be confifcat, as faid is. ITEM, It is ftatute and ordained, that all Merchandes and Skippers, at the receiving of their Cocquettes, in all partes and Portes within this Realme , fall give their folemne aithes , and mak faith in forme and maner abone expreemed : And that they have na forbidden guddes , nor na uther lauchtull guddes or merchandice, except that quhilk is conteined in their Cocquet and entres: And fall take na uther guds in , all that voyage, under the paines forefaidis: Quhilk aith, iall be maid to the Cuftomers , quhair-anent they fall be anfwer- able zeirlie in the Checker. 1 5 8 . kAU Schippes and CMerchandes fuld land at the or dinar Staph IT Is ftatute and ordained, that na Schippe paffand to the Law-cuntries, fall lande onie mennis guddes or geare in ony parte thereof, bot at the 1 own of Camp-I/eere, or the ordinarie Staple for the time : And na perfon fall gang on Lande, or tranfporte ony thing out of the Schippe, before his arrival at the fame Porte,
