Cloth Act 1337

The Cloth Act 1337 (11 Edw. 3, c. 2) was an Act of the Parliament of England passed during the reign of Edward III.

The Act legally obliged all English people to wear English-made cloth.[1]

Notes

  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.
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