408 ON THE PLACE OF FISH IN 



the week. First in the year are 52 weeks to 

 every week 7 days 365 the Lenten Friday and 

 Saturday in every week, and the other collected fish 

 days being collected together extend 153. So in the 

 year is 153 fish days and 21 1 flesh days. That is 

 58 flesh days more than fish days. 



So the year having 52 weeks, abate 7 for the time 

 of Lent wherein no beef ought to be killed, and there 

 remaineth but 42 weeks. Then let us say there be 

 three-score butchers freemen, . . and every butcher kill 

 weekly the one with another, five beefs apiece. The 

 same amounts to 13,500 beefs. 



The foreigners in the suburbs and such as come 

 out of the country to supply the town are four times 

 as many 54,000. The beefs entered by freemen and 

 foreigners together extend to 67,500. . . . 



The beefs spared by the days mentioned to 

 be observed as fifty days' abstinence, would be 

 13,500 .... 



And this does not increase any of the fast days 

 already in vogue, only orders a better observance of 

 them. 



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Vol. IV, part I. 



Anno 5, o. Elizabeth, cap. v., sec. n. And for the 

 encrease of provision of fishe by the more usual eating 

 thereof, bee it further enacted, that from the feast of 

 St. M. the Arch Angels, anno Dui, fiftene hundreth 

 three score four every Wednesday in every week 

 through the whole year shall hereafter be observed, 

 and kept as the Saturdays in every week ought to be, 



