Our Legal Heritage by S. A. Reilly
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page 262 of 410 (63%)
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A fugitive laborer will be outlawed, and when found, shall be
burnt in the forehead with the letter "F" for falsity. Children who labored at the plough and cart or other agriculture shall continue in that labor and may not go into a craft. A statute of 1363 designed to stop hoarding various types of merchandise until a type became scarce so to sell it at high prices, required merchants to deal in only one type of merchandise. It also required craftsmen to work in only one craft as before (except women who traditionally did several types of handiwork). This was repealed a year later. Where scarcity has made the price of poultry high, it shall be lowered to 8d. for a young capon, 7d. for an old capon or a goose, 9d. for a hen, and 10d. for a pullet. The fares for passage on boats on fresh waters and from Dover to the continent shall remain at their old rate. Any merchant selling at a fair after it has ended will forfeit to the King twice the value of that sold. Anyone finding and proving cloth contrary to the assize of cloth shall have one- third of it for his labor. No shoemaker nor cordwainer shall tan their leather and no tanner shall make shoes, in order that tanning not be false or poorly done. |
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