Wool Act Register

C/EX/L/2

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This register was known as W and is so marked on the front cover. The Wool Act: An act for taking off the duties upon Bay-Yarn imported from Ireland to England, and for the more effectual preventing the exportation of wool from Great Britain and of wool, and wool-manufactured, from Ireland to foreign ports. Containing the text of owners' declarations, made under the Act, twelve Geo. II (1739) cap. 21, recording the vessel's name, home port, date and place of build (sometimes), whether home, foreign or plantation built, name of master, rig (or general type of vessel), tonnage (often only approximate), names of owner or part-owners, and (if prize or otherwise of foreign build) a reference to the circumstances of her seizure or condemnation, and when and where "made free".