14S POSTSCRIPT. 



the forfeiture be sooner paid, provided the justice 

 may mitigate the said penalty, so as not to remit 

 above one half: persons aggrieved may appeal to 

 the next sessions." 



And an old act of parliament of Henry II. 

 says, 



" No person shall fasten any nets over rivers, 

 to stand continually night and day, on pain of 

 forfeiting one hundred shillings to the king. 



