Importation Act 1337

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	United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent	1337
Commencement	27 September 1337 [a]
Repealed	24 June 1822
Other legislation
Repealed by	Repeal of Acts Concerning Importation Act 1822
Relates to	Cloth Act 1337
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

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

Legacy

The whole act was repealed by section 1 of the Repeal of Acts Concerning Importation Act 1822 (3 Geo. 4. c. 41).

Notes

1. Start of session.

References

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.