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


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