576 MODERN FARRIER. 



Game-keepers, or any other persons, may, by 

 warrant of a justice of peace, on proper informatioDj 

 search the houses or other places of unquahfied per- 

 sons, and seize and keep for the use of the lord or 

 lady of the manor, or destroy any dogs, nets, engines, 

 &c. as before expressed. 



The 1st of James 1. c. 27, inflicts a penalty of 

 twenty shillings (to the poor), or three months im- 

 prisonment, as well as two sureties in twenty pounds 

 each, for shooting or destroying game. And the 

 possession of game, by William and Mary, c. 23, s. 



3, subjects an unqualified possessor to an imprison- 

 ment of not more than one month, nor less than ten 

 days, and to be whipped and kept to hard labour. 

 This act also specifies, that if any hferior tradesman 

 (whatever property he may possess), apprentice, or 

 other dissolute -person, shall hunt, hawk, fish, or fowl, 

 such persons may be sued for icil/ull trespass the first 

 time he comes on any person's ground, and if found 

 guilty, must pay the J'tdl costs of suit. 



A Game-keeper. 



The 23d of Charles II. c. 22, s. 2, authorizes lords 

 of manors, or other royalties, not under the degree 

 of an esquire, to appoint game keepers within their 

 manors or royalties, to take and seize all guns, bows, 

 grey hounds, setting-dogs, lurchers, &c. ferrets, tram- 

 mels, nets, engines, &c. for the purpose of taking 

 and killing game. This act merely empowers 

 game-keepers to use means to prevent the illegal 

 destruction of game; but the 5th of Anne, c. 14, s. 



4, enables these game-keepers to kill game upon the 

 manor for which they are deputed, for the use of 

 their master. Selling game, however, without the 

 consent of the lord or lady of the manor, subjects 

 the keeper to an imprisonment in the house of cor- 

 rection for three months. 



