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more credible witnesses, which oaths such justice or 

 justices are hereby authorised to administer, or by 

 his or their own confession, then and in such case 

 the party so convicted shall, immediately after such 

 conviction, pay the said penalty of five pounds, hereby 

 before imposed for the offence or offences aforesaid, 

 to such justice or justices before whom he shall be so 

 convicted, for the use of such person or persons as 

 the same is hereby appointed to be forfeited and paid 

 unto, and, in default thereof, shall be committed by 

 such justice or justices to the house of correction 

 for any time not exceeding six months, unless the 

 money forfeited shall be sooner paid." 



Trespass. 



If I go on another man's ground without license, 

 the owner may have an action of trespass against 

 me ; and if I continue there after warning by the 

 owner or his servant thereunto authorised, the owner, 

 or his servant by his command, may put me off by 

 force ; but not beat me, unless 1 make resistance ; 

 9th. Edward IV. No servant shall be questioned 

 for killing a trespasser within his master's liberty, 

 who will not yield, if not done out of former malice : 

 yet if the trespasser kills any such servant, it is mur- 

 der : 21st Elizabeth. 



If any person shall keep any net, angle, leap, piche, 

 or other engine for taking Fish (except the makers or 

 sellers of them, or the owners or occupiers of rivers 

 and fisheries) such engines, if they shall be found 



