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]

In 1470 an edict had been passed requiring compulsory training in the use of the longbow.^[2] 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. Tree of the year 2013