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The Fur Act 1337 (11 Edw. 3. c. 4) was an Act of the Parliament of England passed during the reign of Edward III.
The Act limited the class of people who might wear fur to earls, barons, knights, prelates of the Church of England, and those who expended one hundred pounds at least by the year.[1]
Item, it is accorded, That no Man nor Woman of the said Lands of England, Ireland, Wales, or Scotland within the King's Power, of what Estate or Condition that he be, the King, Queen, and their Children, the Prelates, Earls, Barons, Knights, and Ladies, and people of Holy Church, which may expend by Year an C. li of their Benefices at the least, to the very Value, only except, shall wear no Fur in his Clothes, that shall be bought after the said Feast of Saint Michael, upon the Forfeiture of the said Fur. And further to be punished at the King's Will.
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