A. D. 1484, 703 



months after their arrival, and all goods unfold at the end of eight 

 months Ihould be carried abroad within two months more, unlefs pre- 

 vented by the weather, on pain of forfeiture *. They were allowed to 

 remove the goods imported by them from one place to another within 

 the eight months. They might take their own countrymen to lodge 

 with them, but no others. They were prohibited from felling woollen 

 cloth in England, and from employing people to convert wool into cloth 

 for their account; and they were enjoined to carry all the cloth and wool 

 bought by them to countries within the Mediterranean. Foreigners were 

 alfo prohibited from exerciling any handicraft occupation in England, 

 except as fervants to Englifh mafters ; and they were particularly debar- 

 red from having any concern in the clothing trade. Foreign artificers or 

 handicraftfmen were obliged to fell their wares by wholefale only, and 

 only in xhe place of their refidence ; and they were not to have any ap- 

 prentices or fervants but natives of England, except their own children f. 

 — A dawning attention to the interefl of literature fuggeftcd an exempt- 

 ion from the rigour of this ad: in favour of the importers of books 

 written or printed, and the writers, illuminers, and printers of books. 



The prohibition of the importation of many foreign articles, firft en- 

 adled in the year 1463, and continued for four years in 1482, was now 

 extended to ten years. And, at the requefl of the girdlers, point-mak- 

 ers, pinners, purfer&5 glovers, cutlers, blade-fmiths, blackfmiths, fpur- 

 ricrs, gold-beaters, painters, fadlers, lorimers J, founders, card-makers, 

 hurers :{:, wire-mongers, weavers, horners, bottle-makers, and copper- 

 fmiths, the parliament prohibited the importation of all kinds of girdles, 

 points, laces, leather purfes, pouches, pins, gloves, knives, hangers, tail- 

 ors' fheers, fciilbrs, andirons, cobbards, tongs, fire-forks, gridirons, flock 

 locks, keys, hinges and garnets, fpurs, painted glafl^es, painted papers, 

 painted forcers, painted images, painted cloths, beaten gold or beaten 

 filver wrought in papers for painters, faddles, faddle-trees, horfe-harnefs, 

 boots, bits, flirrups, buckles, chains, latten nails with iron fhanks, turnets, 

 flanding candleflicks, hanging candlellicks, holy-water flopps §, chafing- 

 diflies, hanging lavers, curtain rings, cards for wool (thofe of Rouen ex- 

 cepted), clafps for gowns, buckles for fhoes, broches, bells (thofe for 

 hawks excepted), tin and leaden fpoons, wire of latten and iron, candle- 



* Eight, or probably ratber in reality ten, or But it is obfcurely expirffbd ; and the prohibition 



even twelve, months, when compared witli forty was perhaps rellridled to thofe who fliould arrive 



days, the time formerly limited, may be reckoned after Eafter 1484. 



a liberal allowance. The time, now fliortened, docs J± Lorimers, makers of bits, fpurs, &c. I know 

 not feem to have been enjoyed by any law, but not, what kind of trade hurers followed, unlefs 

 only in virtue of that filent repeal, which permits they were workers in hair.' //are is hair in North- 

 laws of evident abfurdity to fink quietly into ob- country dialeft. \^Co/es's D':3.2 

 livion. § Probably rather_/?o.v^,-, deep vefielswit!ilia3dL:s> 



f This fentencc is contradii^Vory to a preceding for carrying liquids, 

 one, which allows no foreign liaudiciaflfmtn at all. 



