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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Ralph Weldon of Swanscombe (1546-1609), clerk of the green cloth and Elizabeth, daughter of Leven Buskin. James I …
28th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… the statute 1 0 Jac. for poundage where an exception of cloth exported and no new grant upon cloth. The question whether cloth included in this act. Declines the point of imposition, …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… thirty years. A former official of the Court of the Green Cloth responsible for purveyance, he was a controversial … Topics of the case Arminian assizes Court of the Green Cloth denial of gentility high sheriff inns of court justice …
29th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Adventurers and other merchants concerning the venting of cloth. [Christopher] Eland's patent for making of red lead to … 4 0 Jac. entitled, An act to prevent the false making of cloth. Passed. An act for maintenance and increase of …
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… X Sheriffs X Usury X Wales's laws X Women X Woollen cloth X Welsh cottons Wools transportation X Scire facias …
2nd April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… effects show the badness of trade. 1. In matter of cloth, the staple commodity of the kingdom. Clothiers decayed … by the merchants themselves, upon native commodities, upon cloth. Merchant Adventurers brought in their patents and book … with 4d. personal. From that, grew to 8d. real upon the cloth and 12d. upon some cloth, but in the 14[th] year of the …
2nd March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Against exportation of wools. 2. To enlarge the trade of cloth. Staplers' bill. These to be prepared; and that when … against transportation, the other to enlarge the trade of cloth, he desired they might all go together. It was agreed, …
30th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… the impress money set by the Merchant Adventurers upon cloth is unlawful, unjust and a grievance to the people, and … about the midst of Queen Elizabeth's reign this trade of cloth did exceedingly flourish. Before the 28 of the Queen, … dispensation of laws, impositions/ [f. 181v] Burdens on cloth, seven: 1. 24s. laid on every fine cloth by the …