Jurisdictions, Part 14 – Part 25
Croſſe-bowes and Hand-guns.
NOne may ſhoot in any Handgun, 33 H. 8. chap. 6.Demihake Hagbot, ot Croſſebow, or keep it in his houſe to that intent nor otherwiſe, unleſſe he may diſpend a hundred pound upon paine to looſe for every time ten pound.
Every perſon that will ſhoot, or carry, uſe, or have in his Houſe, or other place, any Hand-gun, other then ſuch a one which ſhall be in the Stock and Gun of the length of a yard, or any Hagbut, or Demy-hake, other then ſuch as ſhall be in the Stock and Gun, of the length of three quarters of a yard, ſhall forfeit ten pound.
And every perſon having Lands, Fees, Annuities, or Offices, of the yearely value of a hundred pound, may ſeiſe and take their Gunns aforeſaid; and alſo every Croſſe-bow of any perſon, not having Lands, Fees, or Offices, to the value of a hundred pound a yeare.
None unleſſe he have a hundred pounds by the yeare, may carry in the high waies, in his Journey, any Croſſebow bent, or Gun charged, unleſſe it be in time of Service of War upon paine of ten pound.
Every one which ſhooteth in a Handgun, Demihake, or Hagbut in a City or market Town, or within one quarter of a mile of them, ſhall forfeit ten pound for every ſhoot.
If a Maſter command his Servant to ſhoot in a Handgun, Demihake, Hagbut, or Croſſe-bow, at a Deere, Foule, or other thing, unleſſe it be at a Banke, or Butt of earth, or in time of War, ſhall forfeit ten pound.
But there is a Proviſo, that Gentlemen, Yeomen, and Servingmen of every Lord ſpirituall and temporall, and of Knights, Eſquires, and Gentlemen, and the Inhabitants aforeſaid, of Cities, Burroughs, or Market Townes, to ſhoot at any Butt or banke of earth, ſo that the Guns be of the length aforeſaid.
And the Lords, Knights, Eſquires, Gentlemen, and the Inhabitants aforeſaid, may alſo keep them to ſhoot at Butt or Banke, and ſo may every perſon (two miles diſtant from any Towne) keep them for defence of their Houſes.
Alſo it is lawfull for every one, charged by 4. and 5. P. and M. to finde Hagbut, to have that in his Houſe.
Cordiners. 5. Eliz. chap. 8.
NOne ought to cut or gaſh any Hydes of Bull, Ox, Heyfer, or Cow, and if any Tanner offer any ſo gaſhed to ſell, he ſhall forfeit for every one twenty pence.
None ſhall kill any Veale to ſell being under the age of five weeks, upon paine for every one ſix ſhillings eight pence.
None may, together at one time, be a Butcher and a Tanner, upon paine of ſix ſhillings eight pence.
No Tanner ſhall be a Shoomaker, Currier, or Butcher at one time, upon pain to looſe the leather wrought, or the value.
Nor Tanner tan any hide of a Bull, Horſe hide, Sheepskin, upon paine of forfeiting the ſame.
No perſon may cut any Oake apt to be barked, where the barke is of the value of two ſhilling the loade, but between the firſt day of Aprill and the laſt of June, unleſſe it be for building or repairing of a Houſe, upon paine of the loſſe thereof and the double value.
None may buy any rough hides in the haire, but the Tanner, but ſalt hides for Ships.
No Currier ought to curry any leather in the Houſe of any Shoomaker.
And none ought to curry leather ill tanned.
Crow-nets. 24 H. 8. chap. 10.
IT is inquirable if there be no Crow-nets, the Lord ſhall have the halfe of ten ſhillings, which ſhall be forfeited by the Pariſh or the Town, for default of having them, for this Statute is revived by 8. Eliz. chap. 15.
And the Statute of 14. H. 8. is, if Inhabitants of any Pariſh, where there are ten Houſholders dwelling at the leaſt, and do not provide Nets to take Crowes, Choughs, and Rookes, and keep and …enew the ſame netts when occaſion ſhal be, and lay that with a ſhrape of chaff to take the Crowes, &c. they ſhall forfeit ten ſhillings to the Queen and Lord of the Leete.
Or if Crow-neſts are not thrown down in the begining when they begin to breed, they ſhall be amerced.
Frie of Fiſh, 10 Eliz. chap. 17.
NOne ought to take and deſtroy any young broode or Fry of Fiſh in any waters or Rivers, ſalt or freſh, nor kill any Trouts or Salmons out of ſeaſon, and the forfeiture of every branch of this Statute is twenty ſhillings.
None may kill or take any Pike or Pickrell not being in length ten inches Fiſh or more, nor any Salmon unleſs in length ſixteen inches Fiſh or more, nor any Trout not in length eight inches or more, nor any Barble not in length twelve inches or more.
None ought to take any Fiſh with any manner of net, nor with any other engine or deviſe (angling excepted) but onelyonly with a Net or Tramaile, whereof every meaſh ſhall be two inches and a half in breadth.
Alſo where Smelts, Loches, Mynds, Bullheads, Gudgeons, and Eeles, have been uſed to be taken, it ſhall be there lawfull to uſe ſuch a net, as they have uſed before for that purpoſe.
Note that the Steward of the Leet ought to charge the Jury of offences made againſt this Act, otherwiſe he ſhall forfeit forty ſhillings, and if the Jury conceale any thing, then he may impannell another Jury, to inquire of their concealement, and if that be found, they ſhall forfeit twenty ſhillings to the Lord of the Mannor.
If any by day or night, breake or deſtroy the head or dam of any Pond, Poole, Mote, Stanke, Stewe, or ſeverall Pit in which is the Lords Fiſh, to the intent to ſteale the Fiſh, he ſhall pay to the Lord treble damages, and ſhall be impriſoned three Moneths, and after to find ſurety for ſeven yeares for his good behaviour.
Note, this Statute is generall, 5. Eliz. chap. 21.every one to have remedy.
The ſame Law is for Deere chaſed out of the Lords Lands encloſed, or killing any Deere of the Lords. And taking of any Haukes in his Land, or eggs of them, he ſhall have the ſame puniſhment by the ſame Statute.
13. Eliz. chap. 10. provideth, and is inquirable, If any kill or deſtroy any Pheſant or Partridge, with any Ner, Snares, Ginns, or deviſes in the night, That he ſhall forfeit for every Pheſant twenty ſhillings, and for every Partridge ten ſhillings, one halfe to the Lord of the Mannor where it is, and the other to the Informer: And that none Hauke or Hunt with Spaniells in any Land where is Corne or other Graine then growing, (unleſs it be in his own Land) at ſuch time as any eared or codded Corne ſhall be then growing upon the ſame Land, before the ſame be ſhocked, hiled, or cocked upon paine of forty ſhillings to the party.
Alſo it isinquirable, if a Fiſher for his part do his duty in bringing Fiſh to the Market which is good and wholeſome for men, not corrupt, and that he ſell the ſame at reaſonable prizes and without taking exceſſive gaines, ſcilicet, for every twelve pence beſtowed ſhal have but cleere gain one penny, and if it be ſtinking, that it be burnt openly forthwith.
Games unlawfull, 33 H. 8. chap. 9.
NOne for his lucre or gain ought to keep any Houſe, Alley, or place of Bowling, Dicing, Tabling, Carding, Tennis, or other unlawfull Gaming, upon pain every day forty ſhillings.
And every perſon uſing the ſame to looſe for every time ſix ſhillings eight pence.
And if the Conſtables and Bailiſts do not make ſearch every MonethMonth, they ſhall be amerced forty ſhillings the MonethMonth.
No Artificer, Husbandman, Handycrafts man, Apprentice, Journyman, or Servant of an Artificer, Marriners, Fiſhermen, Watermen, or any Servingman, ought to play at any unlawfull Games aforeſaid, but at Chriſtmas time upon paine to looſe twenty ſhillings for every time, and in the Chriſtmas to play in their Maſters Houſes, Noble men.or in their preſence.
No perſon ought to bowle in any place out of his Garden or Orchard, paine ſix ſhillings eight pence.
But it is lawfull for Noble men, and every one that may diſpend a hundred pound per an. in Lands, or profits for life to licence their Servants and others coming to their Houſes, to play at Bowles, Cards, Dice, and other unlawfull Games, and ought not to undergo the penalty of this Statute.
Horſes, 32. H. 8. Chap. 13.
NO Stone-Horſe being of the age of two yeares, unleſs he be foureteen handfull high, ſhall be put to paſture in any common, forreſt or chaſe, upon paine of forfeiting the ſame Horſe.
The ſaid Lands ought to be yearly driven at Michaelmaſs, by the Lord, Tithingman, Conſtables, &c. or within fifteen dayes after, upon the paine of forty ſhillings, and if upon the ſaide driving, there be found, any Filly or Fole or Gelding not able to beare Foles, or not able to worke, the ſame ſhall be kild and buried.
None ought to put upon a Common any Horſe, Mare, or Gelding, infected with Scab or Mange, upon paine of forfeiting ten ſhillings.
Note, that the preſentment againſt this Statute, ought to be certified by the Steward at the next Seſſions of the Peace, upon paine that he ſhall forfeit forty ſhillings.
Hue and cry. 18. Ed. 2.
ALL commonly are taken and called at the Summons of the Sheriffs, and at the cry of the Country, to purſue and arreſt the Felons, when occaſion ſhall be, as well within Liberties as without, 3. Edw. 3. chap. 9.
And if the Robbers eſcape, the hundred with the Liberties thereof, ſhall make recompence to the party robbed within halfe a yeare after the Robbery committed, Winton 13. Edw. 1. chap. 2. And if it be upon the borders of the Hundred, then both Hundreds ſhall make recompence.
Weſtminſter 1. chap. 9. To take Felons, the Statute will that all commonly be ready at the commandement and at the Summons of the Sheriff, and at the cry of the Country, to purſue, to arreſt Felons, when occaſion ſhall be, as well within Liberties as without, and ſhall give a Fine to the King for not doing. See the Statute of Winton in the time of Edw. 1.
The Office of the Crown, title Coroners 2. Have power to inquire if Hue and Cry be made, and if all follow the Hue and Cry, and he that doth not, and upon this is convicted, he ſhall be attached to appeare before the Juſtices of the Goale delivery.
21. Edw. 1. If a Forreſter, Park-keeper, or Warrener, ſhall finde Malefactors wandring to make ſome dammage there, after the Hue and Cry raiſed to the Peace of the King, they that will not ſtand and yeeld themſelves, but to execute their malice and to continue it, and to the diſturbance of the Kings Peace do fly away, and by force and armes defend themſelves; If they ſhall kill theſe Malefactors, they ſhall not for this occaſion be called before the King and the Juſtices.
High Waies, 2. & 3. P. & M. chap. 8.
FOr amending of High Waies to Markets, ſhall be choſen Tueſdayes or Wedneſdayes in the weeke of Eaſter, two Surveyors, and if any choſen refuſe, the paine is twenty ſhillings, and by that Statute every Laborer ought foure dayes to worke, and their dayes shall be appointed the next Sunday following in the Church, and to be made before Midſummer.
He which hath a Carve of Land or paſture, or a Cart, ſhall be there foure daies with it and two men, upon paine of ten ſhillings a day.
And every Houſe-keeper, Cottiger, and Laborer, not being hired Servants by the yeare, ſhall be there foure daies upon the paine of twelve pence a day, and ought to labour eight houres in the day.
Provided that every one before charged, 5 Eliz. ch. 13.labour 6. daies, and that giveth Liberty to take Rubbish, ſmall ſtones of quarries, ſand, gravell, or Synders, and to gather ſtones upon other mens Lands, and provideth liberty to turne the courſe of Waters out of the Highwaies, and that Ditches of every part of the Highwaies be ſcowred by them adjoyning, 8 H. 7. fol 8.and that Trees, Hedges, and Bushes, be cut by the owners, which grow adjoyning to the Highwaies, 18 Eliz. chap. 9.according to the Statute of 5. Eliz. by which the waies ought to be opened, and the People to have ready paſſage.
Every one chargeable as a Cottiger by former Law, and aſſeſſe in goods at five pound or forty shillings in Lands (if he dwell not in London) shall finde two men every one of the ſix daies.
And if one dwell in one parish and hath part of a Carve of Land there, and part in another parish, he shall finde a Cart where he dwelleth.
And if one have two plough Lands in two ſeverall parishes, he shall finde in every one a Cart.
Paine ten shillings for not ſcowring of Ditches and cutting Bushes according to the Statute, fifth yeare of Elizabeth.
Paine twelve pence the Rod for not ditching and ſcowring Ditches, paine for caſting out that which is ſcowred in Ditches into the High way, for every loade twelve pence.
The halfe of all forfeitures by theſe Statutes ſhall be to the Church-wardens to beſtow upon waies.Wardens of the Church.
Hats and Caps, 13. Eliz. chap. 16.
EVery perſon within the age of ſix yeares, ought to uſe upon the Sabboth and Holy daies, if it be not in the time of their Travell out of the Town, upon their Head a Cap of Wooll made and dreſſed in England.
Except
Maydens.
Dames.
Madams and Gentlewomen.
Noble Perſonages.
Every Lord and Knight.
Gentlemen of twenty Marks, and their heires, ſuch which are in any Office of worſhip in City or County. Are excepted alſo.
Wardens of worſhipfull Companies in London. Are excepted alſo.
The Forfeiture is three ſhillings foure pence the day, one halfe to the Lord of the Leet, the other to the Poore.
Alſo the Parents, Gardians, Governours, and Maſters ought to pay the Forfeiture for their Children, Servants, and Wards, 21. yeares till they be out of their charge.
Hempe.
IF any water any Hempe or Flax in any River, 33 H. 8. chap. 13.runningwater, ſtreame, or any other common Pond or water, where Beaſts are uſed to be watred, but only upon the Land where pits appointed for the ſame, or otherwiſe in the ſeverall Ponds, they ſhall forfeit twenty ſhillings, and remedy given to ſue for the ſame in a Leet by Action of Debt, bill, plaint, information, or otherwiſe.
Muſters, 4. and 5. P. and M. chap. 3.
HE that refuſeth to come to Muſters before any perſon authoriſed to take it, ſhall be impriſoned for ten daies, if he do not pay to the Queen forty ſhillings: And if any perſon appointed to take Muſters, receive any Money to releaſe any appointed to ſerve, he ſhall forfeit ten times as much as he receives.
Mortmayne, 7. E. 1. Weſt. 2. c. 32.
NO man entred into Religion, or other whatſoever, to buy or ſell Lands or Tenements, or under colour of gift, or Tearm, or by reaſon of any others title whatſoever, to receive Lands or Tenements of any body, or by any other Art or Wit, to preſume to appropriate it unto himſelfe, upon the forfeiture thereof, by which the Lands and Tenements aforeſaid ſhould come to Mortmain by any meanes. If any ſhall do contrary to this Statute, it is lawfull to the cheife Lord of the Fee, within a yeare, from the time of the alienation thereof, to enter and to hold in fee and Inheritance, and if the cheife Lord be negligent, then the next cheife Lord may enter within halfe a yeare after, and ſo every Lord ſhall have halfe a yeare till it come to the King.