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 provide a remedie against such damages and incon- 

 veniences, have ordained by our counsel, that all 

 marchants, both homeborne and aliens, buying up such 

 wools and fels, within our kingdome and dominion 

 aforesaid, and being desirous to transport them into 

 the foresaid provinces, there to bee solde, may carrie 

 the saide wools and fels, or cause them to be caried to 

 some certaine staple, within any of the saide Provinces, 

 by the Maior and Communaltie of the said marchants 

 of our realme, to be appointed and assigned, and when 

 they shall thinke it expedient, to be changed and 

 removed, and not unto any other place within the 

 saide Provinces whatsoever : and whereas also, amongst 

 other things, we have granted unto the marchants of 

 our foresaid realme, for us and our heires, that the 

 Maior and Councel of the saide marchants for the 

 time being, may impose upon all marchants, home- 

 borne or aliens whatsoever, that shall transgresse the 

 foresaid ordination, and shall thereof lawfully be con- 

 victed, certaine summes of money to be paid for their 

 offences, and that such summes must by our ministers 

 and officers, to our use, be levied out of the goods 

 and wares of the marchants so offending, wheresoever 

 they shall chance to be found within our kingdome and 

 dominions aforesaid, as in our Charter made for the ^ Charter 

 same purpose, it is more plainly expressed, (which ^.^"^^ ^^ ^^^ 

 Charter we have caused to be published upon the Sea- \-^^ J^- 

 coasts, throughout all the countreys of our realme, and 

 a strong prohibition to be proclaimed, that no marchants, 

 neither home-borne, nor strangers, may in any wise 

 transgresse the tenour of the foresaide Charter, under 

 the penalties therein contained) and whereas afterward 

 it beeing given us to understand, that divers mar- 

 chants both home-borne, and aliens, bought up such 

 woolles and woollen felles within our saide Realme and 

 dominions, and conveyed themselves with the saide wools 

 and felles for the sale thereof, unto other places within 

 the foresaide Provinces, besides the saide Staple, which 

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