Importation Act 1337

Act of Parliament
	Parliament of England
Long title	No Clothes made beyond the Seas shall be brought into the King's Dominions.
Citation	11 Edw. 3. c. 3
Territorial extent	England, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland
Other legislation
Repealed by	Statute Law Revision Act 1863
Status: Repealed

The Importation Act 1337 (11 Edw. 3. c. 3) was an Act of the Parliament of England passed during the reign of Edward III.

The act prohibited the importation of foreign made cloth in order to encourage the English cloth making industry.^[1]

Text

Item it is accorded and established, That, no Merchant, foreign nor Denizen, nor none other, after the said Feast of St. Michael shall bring or cause to be brought privily nor apertly, by himself nor by other, into the said Lands of England, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland, within the King's Power, any Clothes made in any other Places than, in the same, upon the Forfeiture of the said Clothes, and further to be punished at the King's Will.

Notes

^ William Cunningham, The Growth of English Industry and Commerce during the Early and Middle Ages. Fifth Edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1915), p. 308.

[1] William Cunningham, The Growth of English Industry and Commerce during the Early and Middle Ages. Fifth Edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1915), p. 308.

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