1547 to 1585. 
78 ON THE PLACE OF FISH IN 
the week. First in the year are 52 weeks—to 
every week 7 days—365—the Lenten Friday and 
Saturday in every week, and the other collected fish 
days being collected together extend 153. So in the 
year is 153 fish days and 211 flesh days. That is 
58 flesh days more than fish days. 
So the year having 52 weeks, abate 7 for the time 
of Lent wherein no beef ought to be killed, and there 
remaineth but 42 weeks. Therf let us say there be 
three-score butchers freemen, . . and every butcher kill 
weekly the one with another, five beefs apiece. The 
same amounts to 13,500 beefs. 
The foreigners in the suburbs and such as come 
out of the country to supply the town are four times 
as many—54,000. The beefs entered by freemen and 
foreigners together extend to 67,500. .. . 
The beefs spared by the days mentioned to 
be observed as fifty days’ abstinence, would be 
135500" sy ane 
And this does not increase any of the fast days 
already in vogue, only orders a better observance of 
them. 
‘STATUTES OF THE REALM’ (1547 to 1585), 
Vol. 1V.5, part 1. 
Anno 5,0. Elizabeth, cap. v., sec. 11.—And for the 
encrease of provision of fishe by the more usual eating 
thereof, bee it further enacted, that from the feast of 
St. M. the Arch Angels, anno Dui, fiftene hundreth 
three score four every Wednesday in every week 
through the whole year shall hereafter be observed 
and kept as the Saturdays in every week ought to be, 
