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Statute of Westminster 1472

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United Kingdom legislation
Act of Parliament
Parliament of England
Citation12 Edw. 4.

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.

In 1470, an edict had been passed requiring compulsory training in the use of the longbow. This resulted in a shortage of yew wood. The statute sought to overcome this shortage.

References

  1. Statutes at Large: From Magna charta to 1800 (Great Britain, 1762)
  2. Bell, Eric. "Taxus baccata: The English Yew Tree" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 April 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  3. Tree of the year 2013


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