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the persons there so found be in like case hound by them- Further pro- 

 selves, or else with sureties, by the discretions of the justices, visions re- 

 mayors, sheriffs, baihtfs or other head officers, no more to lati;°o hereto, 

 play, haunt or exercise from thenceforth in, at or to any of ^ 28°'s 9 

 the said places, or at any of the said games. 



16. Be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no Persons pro- 

 manner of artificer or craftsman of an}'- handicraft or occupa- hibited to play 

 tion, husbandman, apprentice, labourer, servant at husbandry, ^* unlawful 

 journeyman or servant of artificer, mariners, fishermen, chxi'^tmas (°) 

 watermen or any serving-man, shall from the said Feast of 



the Nativity of St. John Baptist, play at the tables, dice, 

 cards, or any other unlawful game, out of Christmas, under 

 the pain of twenty shillings, to be forfeit for every time ; and 

 that all justices of peace, mayors, bailiffs, sheriffs and all 

 other head officers, and every of them, finding or kno^^"ing 

 any manner of person or persons using or exercising any 

 unlawful games, contrary to this present statute, shall have 

 full power and authority to commit every such offender to 

 ward, there to remain without bail or mainprise until such 

 time that they so offending be bounden by obligation to the 

 king's use in such sums of money as by the discretions of 

 the said justices, mayors, bailiffs or other head officers shall 

 be thought reasonable, that they or any of them shall not 

 from henceforth use such unlawful games. 



17. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That All other sta- 

 all other statutes made for the restraint of unlawful games, or tutes made 

 for the maintenance of artillery, as touching the penalties or ^oamst im- 

 forfeitures of the same, shall be from hencefoi'th utterly void; an^ for the ' 

 and that all informations, plaints, actions or suits that shall maintenance 

 be taken or siied upon any part of this statute, shall be com- of artillery 

 menced within the year after the offence committed and done, repealed. 



or otherwise no advantage or suit thereof to be taken. 



18. And where any such forfeitures shall happen to be Within what 

 found within the precinct of any franchise, leet or lawday, *™^ ^^ ^"^* 

 then the lord of the same franchise, leet or lawday to have geCTited^iipon 

 the one moiety thereof, and the other moiety thereof to any of this statute 

 the king's subjects that will sue for the same in any of the and who shall 

 king's courts, by action, information, bill or otherwise, in ^^^^'^ ^^^ ^°^' 

 which action or suit the defendant shall not be admitted to ^^^tures. 

 wage his law, nor any protection nor essoin shall be allowed ; 



and where such forfeiture shall be found out of the precinct of 

 any franchise, leet or lawday, that the moiety of all such 

 forfeitures shall be to the king, our sovereign lord, and the 

 other moiety thereof to any the king's subjects that will sue 

 for the same by bill, plaint, action, information or otherwise, 

 in any of the king's courts, in which suit or action the defen- 

 dant shall not be admitted to wage his law, nor any protection 

 or essoin shall be allowed. 



((■) 1 Lutw. 1. 



