THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 603 



For woodcocks or snipes there is no specified time. 



To hunt or destroy game on a Sunday or on 

 Christmas day, or in the night (which shall be 

 deemed to commence the first hour after sunset, and 

 conclude at the beginning of the last hour before 

 sunrise), renders the party liable to a penalty of not 

 more than five pounds, with costs, on conviction 

 before two justices (1st and 2nd Will. IV). 



By 1st and 2d William IV., the penalty on persons 

 trespassing in the day-time upon lands in search of 

 game, is forty shillings and costs ; and, if five or 

 more persons together trespass in the day-time upon 

 any land in pursuit of game, woodcocks, snipes, 

 quails, landrail, or coneys, each of such persons shall 

 forfeit any sum not exceeding five pounds, as one 

 justice may think fit, with the costs of the convic- 

 tion. And where the occupier of the land, not be- 

 ing entitled to the game, allows any person to kill 

 it, the party entitled to the game may enforce the 

 penalty. Such trespassers may be required to quit 

 the land, and to tell their names and abodes ; and, 

 in case of refusal, may be arrested, the penalty not 

 exceeding five pounds : but parties so arrested must 

 be discharged unless brought before a justice within 

 twelve hours 



By the same act, where five or more persons are 

 found on any land, or in any of his majesty's forests, 

 &c. in the day-time, in search of game, &c. being 

 armed with a gun, and by violence, intimidation, 

 or menace, prevent, or endeavour to prevent any 

 person from approaching them to require them to 

 quit the land, or tell their names and abode re- 

 spectively, such persons shall forfeit any sum not 

 exceeding five pounds each, which two justices may 

 think fit, with the costs of the conviction, in addi- 



