The mariners magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts containing the description and use of the scale of scales, it being a mathematical ruler, that resolves most mathematical conclusions, and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals, and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators : the art of navigation, resolved geometrically, instrumentally, and by calculation, and by that late excellent invention of logarithms, in the three principal kinds of sailing : with new tables of the longitude and latitude of the most eminent places ... : together with a discourse of the practick part of navigation ..., a new way of surveying land ..., the art of gauging all sorts of vessels ..., the art of dialling by a gnomical scale ... : whereunto is annexed, an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of parliaments appointed, relating to the customs and navigation : also a compendium of fortification, both geometrically and instrumentally / by Capt. Samuel Sturmy.

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The mariners magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts containing the description and use of the scale of scales, it being a mathematical ruler, that resolves most mathematical conclusions, and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals, and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators : the art of navigation, resolved geometrically, instrumentally, and by calculation, and by that late excellent invention of logarithms, in the three principal kinds of sailing : with new tables of the longitude and latitude of the most eminent places ... : together with a discourse of the practick part of navigation ..., a new way of surveying land ..., the art of gauging all sorts of vessels ..., the art of dialling by a gnomical scale ... : whereunto is annexed, an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of parliaments appointed, relating to the customs and navigation : also a compendium of fortification, both geometrically and instrumentally / by Capt. Samuel Sturmy.
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Sturmy, Samuel, 1633-1669.
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London :: Printed by E. Cotes for G. Hurlock, W. Fisher, E. Thomas, and D. Page ...,
1669.
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"The mariners magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts containing the description and use of the scale of scales, it being a mathematical ruler, that resolves most mathematical conclusions, and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals, and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators : the art of navigation, resolved geometrically, instrumentally, and by calculation, and by that late excellent invention of logarithms, in the three principal kinds of sailing : with new tables of the longitude and latitude of the most eminent places ... : together with a discourse of the practick part of navigation ..., a new way of surveying land ..., the art of gauging all sorts of vessels ..., the art of dialling by a gnomical scale ... : whereunto is annexed, an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of parliaments appointed, relating to the customs and navigation : also a compendium of fortification, both geometrically and instrumentally / by Capt. Samuel Sturmy." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61915.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 23, 2025.

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Goods forfeited for being Imported into England or Wales, with∣out any Penalty upon the Ship; these Goods being all English Manufactures.

ALL manner of Tine and Pewter* 1.1 Manufactures made in Forreign Parts are for∣feited. Vide Stat. 25 Hen. 8. 14.

Officers may search and seise Wares brought into the Realm contrary to the said Act, and none shall withstand the search of Brass,* 1.2 Tin, and Pewter, on the forfeit of five pounds, per id. Stat.

* 1.3Woolen Clothes, Woolen Caps, Ribbons, Fringes of Silk and of Thred, Laces of Silk and of Thred, Silk Twine, Embroidered Laces of Silk or Gold, Saddles, Stir∣rops, or any Harness belonging to Saddles, Spurs, Bosses for Bridles, Andirons, Gridirons, any manner of Locks, Hammers, Pincers, Fire-tongs, Dripping-pans, Dice, Tennis-balls, Points, Purses, Girdles, Gloves, Harness for Girdles, Iron, Latten, Steel, Tin, or Alchymy, or any Wrought or any Tawed Leather, any Tawed Furs, Biskin Shoos, Galloshes, or Cork, Knives, Daggers, Wood-knives, Bodkins, Sheers for Taylors, Scissors, Razors, Chess-men, Playing Cards, Combs, Pattens, Pack-needles, any Painted Wares, Forsers, Caskets, Rings of Copper or of Latten, guilt Chafingdishes, Hanging Candlesticks, Caffing Balls, Sacring Bells, Rings for Cur∣tains, Ladles, Scummers, counterfeit Basons, Ewers, Hats, and Brushes, Cards for Wooll, black Iron, Thred called Iron Wyre, or whited Wyre, are forfeited if any such be Imported into England or Wales. Vide Stat. 4 Edw. 4.

* 1.4All Iron Wyre, Card-wyre, or Wool-cards, that shall be Imported into England or Wales, are forfeited. per Stat. 39 Eliz. 14. 14 Car. 2. 19.

* 1.5All manner of Girdles, Harness for Girdles, Points, Leather, Laces, Purses, Pouches, Pins, Gloves, Knives, Hangers, Taylors Sheers, Scissors, Andirons, Cob∣bards, Tongs, Fire-locks, Gridirons, Stock-locks, Keys, Hinges and Garnets, Spurs, painted Glasses, painted Papers, painted Forcers, painted Images, painted Clothes, beaten Gold or Silver wrought in Papers for Painters, Saddles, Saddle-trees, Horse-Harness, Boots, Bits, Stirrops, Chains, Buckles, Latten Nails with Iron Shanks, Curvets, Hanging-candlesticks, Holy-water, Stops, Chafing-dishes, Hanging Lavers, Curtain-rings, Cards for Wool, Roan Cards, Sheers, Buckles for Shoos, Broaches for Spits, Belts, Hawk-bells, Tin and Leaden Spoons, Wyre of Latten and Iron, Candlesticks, Grates, Horns for Lanthorns, or any of these, being Imported into England, are forfeited, or the value thereof, betwixt the King and the Prosecutor. These may be sued for in any Corporation where they are. Vide Stat. 1 R. 3. 12.

All Girdles, Harness for Girdles, Rapiers, Daggers, Knives, Hilts, Pummels, Lockets, Blades, Handles, Scabbards, Sheaths for Knives, Saddles, Horse-Harness,

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Stirrops, Bits, Gloves, or Points, Leather Laces, or Pins,* 1.6 that shall be Imported in∣to England or Wales, shall be forfeit. 5 Eliz. 7.

All manner of Silk wrought by it self, or with any other Stuff, in any place out of the Realm, Ribbons, Laces, Girdles, Corses called Corses of Tissue, or Points, shall be forfeited, per Stat. 19 Hen. 7. 21.

All Forreign Bone-lace, Cut-work, Fringe, Embroidery, Bandstrings, Buttons,* 1.7 or Needle work, made of Silk or Thred, or either of them, being Imported into Eng∣land, Wales, or Berwick, shall be forfeited, besides the Forfeiture of one hundred pound. 14 Car. 2. 13.

All manner of Woollen Cloth that shall be Imported into England, Ireland, or Wales, from beyond the Sea, shall be forfeited. Vide Stat. 2 Edw. 3. 3. & 4 Ed. 4. 1.

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