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.

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