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]

For other similarly-named legislation, see Statute of Westminster.

Act of Parliament
Parliament of England
Citation12 Edw. 4.

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
  1. Statutes at Large: From Magna charta to 1800 (Great Britain, 1762)
  2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 April 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Tree of the year 2013
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