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Show ~18 A PRUSSIAN EDICT, [A: D.T.]- {zflmzz'rzg Claim: over Britain. J ‘ flitting or rolling of 'iron, or any plating-forge 319 ‘ ‘ fays, bays, kerfeys, ferges, frizes, druggets, ‘ to 'woi‘k with a tilt-hammer, or any furnace for ‘geloth-ferges, flmlloons, or any other drapery t making flee], {hall be erected or continued 11; ‘ the {aid ifland of Great Britain : And the Lori ‘ Lieutenant of every county 1n the {aid illand is ‘ ftuflis, or woollen manufactures whatfoever, ‘ made up or mixed with wool in any of the faid ‘ hereby commanded, on information of anyluch " counties, be carried into any other county, or ‘ erection within ‘his county, to order, and b ‘ be water-borne even acrofs the {mallet} river or ‘ creek; on penalty of forfeiture of the fame, to‘ gether with the boats, carriages, horfes, Sec. ‘ force to caufe the fame to be abated and de‘ {troyed ; as he {hall anfwer the neglect theleof ‘ to Us at his peril.-But we are neverthelets grla- ‘ that [hall be en'ployed in removing them.- ‘ cioufly pleated to permit the inhabitants )of tie ‘ Neverthelefs, l ‘ {aid ifland to tranfport their iron into Iiufiia, ‘ there to be manufactured, and to them returned; I all their wool as manure, for the improvement ‘ of their lands. ‘ And whereas the art and myf'rery of making [7le hath arrived at great perfection in Prufiia; and the making of hats by Our remoter fubjee‘rs ought to be as much as potlible reftrained: And ‘ they paying Our Prufhan tubjeéts tor the inhork‘ manlhip, with all the colts 0t comml ion, ‘ freight, and rifk, coming and returning; filly ‘ thing herein contained t0 the contrary notw1t ' din . ‘ f:mrilVe gdo not, however, think fit to extend thls ‘ Our indulgence to the article of weal; bL-lt ‘ meaning to encourage not only the lmanufaé'tml- for-afinuch as the iflanders before mentioned, be- ‘ ing of woollen cloth, but alto the railing ofwoo , ‘ in Our ancient dominions ; and to prevent both, ‘ as much as may be, in Our {aid ifl..nd,-We dc; ‘ hereby abfolutely forbid the tranlportation .0 ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ « Our loving fubjec7ts there are hereby permitted (if they think proper) to ufe ing in poiiblliori of wool, beaver, and other furs, ' have prefumptuonfly conceived they had a right to make fome advantage thereof, by manufac- ‘ turing the lame into hats, to the prei idice of ‘ ()ur doriieitic manufacture z-Wl‘ do therefore ‘ hereby itriétly command and ordain, that no ‘ hats or felts \vhatioever, dyed or nudged, ii- wool from tiienCe even to the mother-country, Pruflia :--And that thofe iflandcrs may be farther and more effectually l‘c‘ill‘llllcrd in makingf any advantage of their own wool, in the way 0 manufacture, We command that none .liah be carried out of one county into another; nol (hall any worfted, bay, or woollen-yarn, ‘Clfiii: ‘ Whatfocvcr; on pain ot‘ioz'i‘eiting the tame, with _9 ‘ a penalty of five hundred pounds fierling for \) ‘ niihed or unfinithcd, thall be lea-den or put into or upon any venbl, cart, carriage, or horfe; ‘ to be tranfportcd or conveyed out of one county ‘ in the {aid ifland into another county, or to any ‘ other place whattbevcr, by any pcrlon or peril/ins s , . 7 CVCI} |