Lent. 
80 ON THIAPLAGE; OF FISH 1 
statute limiting orders to eat fish and to forbeare from 
flesh. It is intended and meant politically for the 
increase of fishermen and mariners, &c., and not for 
any suspicion to be maintained in the choice of meats. 
That whosoever shall by preaching, teaching, writing, 
or open speech notify that any eating of fish and for- 
bearing of flesh, mentioned in this statute, is of any 
necessity for the saving of the soul of man, or to the 
service of God, or otherwise than as other politic laws 
are, shall be punished as spreader of false news. 
‘STATUTES OF THE REALM’ (1586 to 1624), 
Vol. IV., part 2, chap. xxviii, p. 1058. 
James I. in 1603 issued a proclamation reminding 
his English subjects to keep Lent. This his Majesty 
did to help Scotch herring trade. 
Charles I., 1627, sent a royal decree from Whitehall 
to same effect. 
Froissart mentions (1429) when the English were be- 
sieging Orleans, the Duke of Bedford sent from head- 
quarters (Paris) five hundred cartloads of herrings 
for the use of the camp during Lent. The French 
Xaintraille, Lahire, de la Tour de Chavigny, and the 
Chevalier de Lafayette made a desperate effort to 
stop the convoy, but were routed with much slaughter. 
1926 to Losec 
“APOLOGY FOR LENT,’ 
“Father Prout” (Rev. F. Mahony, P.P., Watergrass 
Hill, co. Cork) says: Lent is an institution which 
should long since have been rescued from the cobwebs . 
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