404 GAME LAWS. 



If a person go in pursuit of game with a dog and gun, he can 

 only be charged with one offence, and convicted in one penalty 

 for both. (7 Term Reports, 152.) 



Killing, from seven o'clock at night to six in the morning, be- 

 tween the 1 2th of October and the 12th of February; and from 

 nine at night to four in the morning, from the 1 2th of February 

 to the 1 2th of October (besides the other penalties before named) ; 

 Jirst offence, not more than 20/. nor less than 10/. ; second offence,, 

 from 30/. to 201. ; third, and subsequent, 50/. 



Servant of the lord of a manor may kill, and yet the lord of the 

 manor may not, unless he is qualified ! ! ! 



EGGS OF GAME. 



[Taking, or wilfully destroying, the eggs of game, subjects the 

 offender to the following penalties for EACH EGG.] 



. s. d. 

 Pheasant, partridge, swan 



[Query if the following are not become obsolete from 



non usage ?~} 



Any wildfowl, crane, bustard (and one year's imprison- 

 ment for the offence) . . ..018 

 Bittern, heron, shoveller . . . .008 



Another man named Bundy was fined 51. for having a snare in 

 his possession. A man named Lovelock was also fined 5/. for 

 keeping and using a gun, and for exposing to sale a hare. In all 

 these cases of poaching, the judge expressed great disapprobation 

 of any person suffering similar offenders to elude the penalties of 

 the law ; and he commented strongly on the dreadful consequences 

 resulting to the community from the too great prevalence of this 

 crime. His lordship assured the jury, that he should always 

 punish the crime wherever he could do so, because he was con- 

 vinced it led to enormities of the darkest hue, and frequently to 

 an ignominious death at the gallows. 



