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By 39 and 40 Geo. III. c. 56, if two or more per- 

 sons are found in any forest, chase, park, plantation, 

 field, kc. or other open or inclosed ground, in the 

 night (viz. between the hours of eight and six from 

 the 1st of October to the 1st of February, or between 

 ten and four from the 1st of February to the 1st of 

 October), with any gun or other instrument to de- 

 stroy game, the keeper or occupier is authorised to 

 apprehend such offenders, who are liable (by 17 Geo. 

 II.) to be committed to the house of correction as 

 rogues and vagabonds. 



By 4 and 5 Will, and Mary, lords of manors, or 

 any persons authorised by them as keepers, are em- 

 powered to resist such offenders, and are exempted 

 from punishment on that account. 



Jac. I. c. 27, inflicts a penalty of twenty shillings 

 for the wilful destruction of every egg of a pheasant 

 or partridge. The eggs of wild fowl are also pro- 

 tected by a statute of 25 Henry VIII. c. 11. 



Of Trafficking in Game, S^c. 



By the 1st of James I. c. 27, it is enacted, that if 

 any person buy or sell any deer, hare, partridge, or 

 pheasant, such person shall, on conviction before 

 two justices (or at the assizes or quarter-sessions), 

 forfeit, for every deer, forty shillings; for every hare, 

 ten shillings; tor every pheasant, twenty shillings; 

 and for every partridge, ten shillings; half to ijie 

 informer, and half to the poor. " But pheasants or 

 partridges reared by the hand, or brought from abroad, 

 are not included in this act. 



By the 5th of Anne, c. 14. s. 2, it is enacted, that 

 if any higgler, chapman, can-ier, inn-keeper, victual- 

 ler, or ale-house keeper, shall have in his possession 

 any hare, pheasant, partridge, moor or heath-game 

 (unless where a carrier is transporting sucli game for 

 a qualified person), or shall buy, sell, or expose for 

 sale, any such hare, &c. such offending person shall 

 forfeit the sum of five pounds; and the oath of one 



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