Statute of Westminster 1472
The Statute of Westminster 1472 was an Act of Edward IV of England requiring a tax of four bow staves per tun of cargo to be provided by each ship arriving at an English Port.[1][2]
In 1470 an edict had been passed requiring compulsory training in the use of the longbow.[3] This resulted in a shortage of yew wood. The statute sought to overcome this shortage.
References[]
- ^ Statutes at Large: From Magna charta to 1800 (Great Britain, 1762)
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
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