"For the increase of shipping and
encouragement of the navigation of this nation...be it enacted by the
king's most excellent Majesty, and by the Lords and Commons in the
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority thereof...no goods
or commodities whatsoever shall be imported or exported out of any
lands, islands, plantations, or territories to his Majesty...in Asia,
Africa, or America, in any other ship or ships, vessel or vessels
whatsoever, but in such ships or vessels as do truly and without
fraud
belong only to the people of England or
Ireland, dominion of Wales or town of Berwick upon Tweed, or are of
the built of and belonging to any the said lands, plantations, or
territories, as the proprietors and right owners thereof, and whereof
the master and three fourths of the mariners at least are English;
under the penalty of the forfeiture and loss of all the goods and
commodities which shall be imported into or exported out of any the
aforesaid places in any other ship or vessel, as also of the ship or
vessel, with all its guns, furniture, tackle, ammunition, and
apparel...And be it enacted, that no alien or person not born within
the alliance of our sovereign lord the king, his heirs and
successors, or naturalized, or made a free denizen...exercise the
trade or occupation of a merchant or factor in any of the said
places; upon pain of the forfeiture and loss of all his goods and
chattels...And be it further enacted...no sugars, tobacco,
cotton-wool, indigoes, ginger fustic, or other dying wood, of the
growth, production, or manufacture of any English plantations in
America, Asia, or Africa, shall be shipped, carried, conveyed, or
transported from any of the said English plantations to any land...or
place whatsoever, other than to such other English
plantations...England or Ireland, or principality of Wales...”
Charles II, September 13, 1660
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