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A Statute of the Fortieth Year of King Edward III., enacted in a parliament held in Kilkenny, A.D. 1367, before Lionel Duke of Clarence, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. (Author: [unknown])
article 5
V. Also, whereas the liege people of our lord the king of his land of
Ireland, or the wars of the same land cannot reasonably be
controlled, unless the sale of victuals be reasonably regulated,
it is ordained and established as to the merchandizes which are come,
or shall come, to the same land by any merchants, and at whatever port,
town or city they shall arrive, that before the said merchandizes
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be put up to sale, the mayor, sovereign, bailiff, or other
officer who shall have care of the place where the said
merchandizes shall be sold, do cause to come before them two of the
most respectable and sufficient men of the said place, who meddle not in
such merchandizes, and that the said mayor, seneschal, sovereign
or bailiff; with the said two persons, do cause to come before them the
merchants to whom the said merchandizes shall belong, and the
sailors, and they shall be sworn truly to tell und show the amount of
the first purchase prime cost of the said merchandizes, and of
the expenses on them to the port, and thereupon that a reasonable
price be put upon the said merchandizes by the said mayor, seneschal,
bailiff or provost, and by the two discreet men aforesaid, without
favour, as they may be able to vouch before our lord the king's council
of these parts; and at such prices they shall be sold, without more
being taken for them, upon forfeiture of the same, although the
said merchandizes should have there become chargeable afterwards.
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