1667 and 1678 Burial in Wool Acts

Declared that "No corpse of any person(except those who shall die of the plague) shall be buried in any shirt, shift, sheet or shroud or anything whatever made or mingled with flax, hemp, silk, hair, gold or silver or in
any other stuff or thing, other than what is made of sheep's wool only" 

An affidavit was made at each burial that the law had been complied with. The law was intended to help the wool trade, and a penalty of £5 was imposed if wool was not used. The acts were repealed in 1814 but by then were in general disuse.