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No wool fhipped to be fent coaftwife from one part of 

 Great Britain to another, until due notice be given and bond 

 entered into, and a licence obtained under the hand of three 

 commiffioners of the cuftoms. Penalty, forfeiture. 28 

 Geo. III. c. 38. § 34. And wool muft alfo be (hipped 

 coaltwife in Britilh (hip, Britifh owned and manned, the 

 ownei of which does not refide out of Great Britain. § 19. 

 and 12 Car. II. c. 18. Formerly there were penalties and 

 forfeitures for keeping or removing wool in Kent and Suf- 

 fex within certain diftancesof the fea (ten and fifteen miles), 

 without entry and bond, and procuring certificates or per- 

 mits, and alfo for removing wool within five miles of the 

 fea-coaft of Great Britain before fun-rifing and after fun- 

 fet; but by the 54 Geo. III. c. 78. all the regulations 

 formerly required antecedent to the removal of wool on land 

 throughout England are repealed. 



Wool to be packed in packs, or trufl'es of leather, or can- 

 vas, called ' Pack-cloths,' or in linen or woollen, and to be 

 marked ' Wool,' in letters three inches long, on forfeiture 

 of the wool, and ix. per pound. 28 Geo. III. c. 38. § 28. 



Perfons packing wool, &c. into boxes, barrels, cafes, 

 or chelts, and other than as above, or prelSng or (leaning 

 the fame, to forfeit the goods, and 3J. per pound. Ibid. 

 J 30, 31. 



Infurances for the conveyance of wool contrary to this 

 aft void, and the parties may be punilhed. § 45, 46, 47, 48. 



King's (hips empowered and required to fearch (hips for 

 wctf>l (hipped without licence. $ 49, 50, 51. 



No perfon can feize wool unlawfully removing but 

 officers of cuftoms, excife, and falt-duties, or perfons ac- 

 companied by a conftable ($52-)' ^""^ perfons neglefting 

 their duty to forfeit 20/., and making coUufive feizures or 

 agreements to be fubjeft to hke penalties as exporters. 

 (? 53- SS-) Hindering, obftrufting, or beating officers, 

 fubjefts offenders to tranfportation ; and bribery of them, 

 whether accepted or not, to the penalty of 300/. § 56, 57. 



If any queftion arifes upon the growth of the wool, the 

 onus probandi is to lie upon the owners. § 60. 



Informations may be laid in any court of record, and 

 penalties, &c. under 200/. may be determined before two 

 juftices of the peace ; and ju(lices at quarter-felTions may 

 direft (hips, goods, wool, &c. to be fold. § 62, 63. 



Profecutions to be commenced within three years. 



§ 11- 



Wool the growth of Ireland may be exported to Eng- 

 land, and no where elfe. I W. & M. c. 32. 7&8W. III. 

 c. 28. 10 & II W. III. c. 10. 26 Geo. III. c. II. 



And the Admiralty is to appoint three (hips of the fixth 

 rate, and eight or more armed (loops, to prevent the ex- 

 portation of wool from Ireland to foreign ports. 5 Geo. II. 

 c. 21. 



Wool the produce of any of the colonies, &c. in America, 

 or countries on the continent of America, fubjeft to any 

 foreign European dates, imported into certain Briti(h Weft 

 India iflands, may be imported into Great Britain under the 

 regulations of the 12 Car. II. c. 18. 



Thofe places are, Jamaica, Granada, Dominica, Antigua, 

 Trinidad, Tobago, New Providence, Crooked ifland, St. 

 Vincent, Bermuda, Caicos, Tortola, Curacoa, and the 

 Bahamas. 27 Geo. III. c. 27. 45 Geo. III. c. 57. 

 47 Geo. III. fed. 2. c. 34. 



Briti{h hare or coney wool may not be exported, (except 

 to Ireland, 39 & 40 Geo. III. c. 67.) on penalty of 

 forfeiture. The owner or (hipper to pay 100/., and the 

 mafter of the (hip 40/. 24 Geo. III. c. 21. 



Wool, Cheefe made under, in Rural Economy, a term 



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applied to that fort of high-tafted ewe cheefe which it 

 made before the (heep are (horn. See Cheese. 



Wool, Pack of, a quantity of wool packed up clofely 

 together in a large bag of the fack-cloth kind, which in 

 London is conftituted of two hundred and forty pounds. 

 See Wool. 



Wool, Pocket of. See Pocket. 



Wool, Sarplar of. See Sarplar. 



WooL-Slapler, a perfon who ftaples and deals in wool. 

 See Wool. 



WooL-Stapling. See Stapling of Wool. 



WooL-Balls, in Natural Hi/lory, maffes of wool com- 

 pared into firm and hard balls, and found in the fto- 

 machs of flieep, as the hair-balls are in oxen and other 

 animals. 



Thefe are doubtlefs formed in the fame manner as 

 thofe hair-balls of the outer covering of the animal ; but 

 they are much more uncommon ; they are found in num- 

 bers, three, four, or five, in the ftomach of the fame 

 animal. Their outfide has commonly much the fame 

 appearance of a puff-ball, and is ufually either in part or 

 wholly covered with a very thin and foft blacki(h fmooth 

 (Icin ; the inner fubftance is entirely wool, but that wrought 

 together as clofely as the hatter does his furs in the making 

 of them into hats. 



They are ufually fofr, fmooth, and fomewhat elaftic, of 

 a pale buff-colour, very light, and of irregular figures 

 rather cubic than globular, and feldom of any great fize, 

 an inch in diameter being their common ftandard. More- 

 ton's Northampt. p. 451. See Balls. 



WOOI.ASSEY, in Geography, a town of Bengal; 42 

 miles N.E. of Calcutta. 



WOOLDALE, a town(hip of England, in the Weft 

 Riding of Yorklhire, near Wakefield. 



WOOLDAW, a town of Bengal; 40 miles W. of 

 Nagore. 



WOOLDERS, Single and Double-Handed, in Ship- 

 Building, are fticks about three feet long, and four inches 

 in circumference, with ftraps of rope-yarn made faft, to 

 fix on the rope in making, and alTift the men at the 

 hooks in clofing the rope. 



WOOLDING, is winding feveral clofe turns of 

 rope in a tight manner round the malls and yards, that 

 are made of feveral united pieces, to llrengthen and 

 confine the fame together. In making new mafts and 

 yards, this method is difcontinued, and iron hoops ufed in 

 lieu. 



Woolding is alfo the rope employed in this fervice. 



WOOL-DRIVERS, are thofe who buy wool of the 

 (heep-owners in the country, and carry it on horfeback to 

 the clothiers, or market-towns, to fell it again. 



WOOLER, anciently Willove, in Geography, a mar- 

 ket-town, and pari(h in the ward of Coquet-dale, and county 

 of Northumberland, England. The former is fituated 

 near the Cheviot-hills, 17 miles S. from Berwick-upon- 

 Tweed, 46 N. by W. from Newcaftle, and 320 in the fame 

 direftion from London. In 181 1 the houfes in the parilh 

 were 284, inhabited by 1704 perfons. A market is held on 

 Thurfday, and fairs on the 4th of May and 17th of Oftober. 

 Wooler was a barony, and confifted of feveral manors in the 

 time of Henry I., who conferred it on Robert de Mufcamp, 

 whofe fucceffor Robert, in the reign of Henry III., was 

 the moft powerful baron in the north of England : it now 

 belongs to the earl of Tankerville. The church was re- ; 

 built in 1 765, and the town contains fome meeting-houfes i 

 for diflenters. Situated near the confines between the king- ' 



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