Wool industry - Law and legislation - Great Britain - Early works to 1800

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An abstract of several clauses in an act of Parliament passed in the twelfth year of King George the Second , intituled, An act for taking off the duties upon woollen and bay yarn imported from Ireland to England, and for the more effectual preventing the Exportation of Wooll from Great Britain, and of Wooll, and Wooll manufactured, from Ireland to foreign Parts, so far as the same relate to the Exportation of Wooll, Woollen or Bay Yarn, Wooll-Sells, Shortings, Mortlings, Wooll-Flocks, Worsted Yarn, from Great Britain to foreign Parts, and of the said Goods, as also Cloth, Serge, Bays, Kerseys, Says, Frizes, Druggets, Cloth-Serges, Shalloons, Stuffs, and other Draperies, and Woollen Manufactures, or mixed with Wooll, or Wooll-Flocks, from Ireland, to foreign Parts (except certain Ports in England.),.
Parliament of the United KingdomDate: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]
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The case of the Church of Scotland
Date: 1718?]
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Great Britain's glory or, an account of the great numbers of poor employ'd in the woollen and silk manufacturies, to the increase of trade, the enlargement of the revenues of the Crown, and augmenting our navigation. With the Reasons of the Decay of these Trades, and the Pernicious Consequences which must follow their Destruction. Together with a Scheme of Proposals for preventing the Loss of such Valuable Branches of our National Wealth, and restoring them to their former Grandeur. By John Haynes.
Haynes, John, wool factor.Date: 1715
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An act to enable William Walley , and others, to sell and convey Three undivided Fourth Parts of a Messuage or Farm, and several Pieces or Parcels of Land and Hereditaments, lying in or near the Parish of Hayes, in the County of Kent, unto the Right Honourable William Pitt, in Fee-Simple; and for investing the Purchase-Money in other Lands and Hereditaments, to be settled to the same Uses and Estates as the said Three undivided Fourth Parts are now subject to; and to enable the Trustees named in the Will of William Cleaver the elder, deceased, to convey certain Pieces or Parcels of Land, in the Parish of Hayes aforesaid, Part of the Estate devised by the Will and Codicil of the said William Cleaver, unto the said William Pitt in Fee-Simple, in Exchange for Part of the said first-mentioned Lands.
Parliament of the United KingdomDate: 1759]
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Reasons humbly offer'd against making Exeter or any other port in the British Chanel a staple port for importation of wooll from Ireland
Date: [1718?]