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.[1][2]

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. ↑ 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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