but all leather
must be inspected and marked by a town official before it is sold.
Cordwainers shall not tan leather [to prevent deceitful tanning].
Tanners who make a notorious default in leather which is found by
a cordwainer shall make a forfeiture.
Defective embroidery for sale shall be forfeited.
No fishing net may be fastened or tacked to posts, boats, or
anchors, but may be used by hand, so that fish are preserved and
vessels may pass.
No one may import any articles which could be made in the nation,
including silks, bows, woolen cloths, iron and hardware goods,
harness and saddlery, except printed books.
The following merchandise shall not be brought into the nation
already wrought: woolen cloth or caps, silk laces, ribbons,
fringes, and embroidery, gold laces, saddles, stirrups, harnesses,
spurs, bridles, gridirons, locks, hammers, fire tongs, dripping
pans, dice, tennis balls, points, purses, gloves, girdles, harness
for girdles of iron steel or of tin, any thing wrought of any
treated leather, towed furs, shoes, galoshes, corks, knives,
daggers, woodknives, thick blunt needles, sheers for tailors,
scissors, razors, sheaths, playing cards, pins, pattens [wooden
shoes on iron supports worn in wet weather], pack needles, painted
ware, forcers, caskets, rings of copper or of gilt sheet metal,
chaffing dishes, hanging candlesticks, chaffing balls, mass bells,
rings for curtains, ladles, skimmers, counterfeit felt hat moulds,
water pitchers with wide spouts, hats, brushes, cards for wool,
white iron wire, upon pain of their forfeiture. One half this
forfeiture goes to the king and the other half to the person
seizing the wares.
No sheep may be exported, because being shorn elsewhere would
deprive the king of customs.
No wheat, rye, or barley may be imported unless the prices are
such that national agriculture is not hurt.
Clothmakers must pay their laborers, such as carders and
spinsters, in current coin and not in pins and girdles and the
like.
The term "freemen" in the Magna Carta includes women.
The election of a knight from a county to go to Parliament shall
be proclaimed by the sheriff in the full county so all may attend
and none shall be commanded to do something else at that time.
Election is to be by majority of the votes and its results will be
sealed and sent to Parliament.
Electors and electees to Parliament must reside in the county or
be citizens or burgesses of a borough.
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