Catalogue description STATUTES.

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Title: STATUTES.
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Statutes made and ordained at Limerick, 7th February, 3 Edw. VI., by James, Earl of Desmond, Edmund, Archbishop of Cashel, John Travers, and Thomas Howthe, the King's Commissioners.

 

First, it is enacted and ordained that no poet or any other person hereafter shall make or compose any poems or anything which is called "auran" to any person, except to the King, on pain of forfeiting all his goods, and imprisonment, at the pleasure of the King or his Deputy.

 

Further, it is enacted and ordained, that no person shall hinder the market, or prevent any one from bringing into it his wares and merchandise; except the lord of the town, castle, or territory, who, for his household and honour, may buy from his servants anything which they are able to bring to the market. [In the original:--"Qui ad domicilium et honorem ejus valet aliqua emere a suis familiaribus quæ ad ferrum [sic: mistake for forum?] secum ducere valent, quod sibi licuerit."]

 

Copy.
Date: 7 Feb 1549
Held by: Lambeth Palace Library, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: MS 611, p. 111
Language: Latin
Physical description: 1 Page.
Unpublished finding aids:

Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, ed. J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen (6 vols., 1867-73), vol. I, document 187.

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