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Hunting.
shall be suspected to keep Guns, Bows, Grey-hounds, Setting-dogs,
Ferrets,
Coney-dogs, or other Dogs, to destroy Hares or Coneys, Hayes, Tramels,
and other Nets, Lowbels, Hare-pipes, Snares, and other Engines; and them
to seise and keep for the Lord of the Mannor, or to destroy them.
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All persons are thereby prohibited, except such
as have Lands, and
Tenements, or some other Estate of Inheritance in his own or his Wives
Right of One hundred pound per annum; or for term of Life or have
Lease
or Leases for Ninety nine year, or a longer term of One hundred and fifty
pound
per annum, the Son and Heir of an Esquire, or other person of higher
degree.
The Owners and Keepers of Forests, Parks, Chaces and Warrens; being
stocked with Deer and Coneys for their necessary use in respect thereof.
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Car. 2. |
Any person that shall enter any Warren, or Ground
used for the breeding
and keeping of Coneys (although the same be not inclosed) and there
shall
chace, take, or kill any Coneys, being convicted thereof by his Confession,
or
by the Oath of one sufficient Witness, before any Justice of Peace, within
one
Month after the Offence: shall pay to the party grieved treble damages
and
costs, and be imprisoned for three Months; and after, till he find Sureties
for
the Good Behaviour. |
§. 9.
Warren. |
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If any persons in the night time shall kill or
take any Coneys upon the
Borders of any Warrens, or other Grounds, lawfully used for the breeding
or keeping of Coneys, except the Owner or Occupier of the Soil, or other
persons imployed by them, whereupon they are killed or taken, and be thereof
convicted as last aforesaid, shall give the party such satisfaction, and
within
such time as shall be appointed by the Justice, before whom such conviction
is, and shall pay to the Overseers for the Poors use, such sums of Money,
not exceeding Ten shillings, as the Justice shall think fit: And
in default of
such payment, such Justice may commit the party to the House of Correction,
for such time, as he shall think fit, not exceeding one Month.
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Any person that shall be found or apprehended,
setting, or using any Snares,
Hare-pipes, or like Engins, and shall be thereof convict, as aforesaid,
shall
be punished as in the said last clause is mentioned. 22 &
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§. 10.
Snares. |
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Any person grieved by any such Judgment, may
appeal to the next General
Quarter Sessions, who shall give such relief as is agreeable to that Act:
Which Judgment shall be final, if no Title to any Land or Royalty be concerned.
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If any person having no Chace, Park or Forest
of their own, keep, nor
cause to be kept any Nets, called Deer-Hays, or Buck-stalls, by the space
of a
Month after Proclamation made of that Statute, upon pain to forfeit Forty
pound a Month for keeping of them. 19 H. 7. c. 11. |
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No person shall Stalk, or cause to be Stalked,
with Bush or Beasts to any Deer
in any Park, Chace, or Forest, or without (except in his own Ground, Park,
Chace
or Forest) without Licence of the Owner, Master, or Keeper, or forfeit
for
every time Forty pound. |
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Two Justices of Peace in their Sessions may call
the person suspected before
him, and examine them; and if upon Examination the Party be found in
Default, then to commit him to Prison, till he find Sureties to pay the
Fine;
and these Justices that examine him, shall have the Tenth part of the Forfeiture
for their labour. 9 H. 7. c. 11. |
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