410 ON THE PLACE OF FISH IN 



statute limiting orders to eat fish and to forbeare from 

 flesh. It is intended and meant politically for the 

 increase of fishermen and mariners, &c., and not for 

 any suspicion to be maintained in the choice of meats. 

 That whosoever shall by preaching, teaching, writing, 

 or open speech notify that any eating of fish and for- 

 bearing of flesh, mentioned in this statute, is of any 

 necessity for the saving of the soul of man, or to the 

 service of God, or otherwise than as other politic laws 

 are, shall be punished as spreader of false news. 



'STATUTES OF THE REALM* (1586 to 1624), 



Vol. IV., part 2, chap, xxviii., p. 1058. 



James I. in 1603 issued a proclamation reminding 

 his English subjects to keep Lent. This his Majesty 

 did to help Scotch herring trade. 



Charles I., 1627, sent a royal decree from Whitehall 

 to same effect. 



Froissart mentions (1429) when the English were be- 

 sieging Orleans, the Duke of Bedford sent from head- 

 quarters (Paris) five hundred cartloads of herrings 

 for the use of the camp during Lent. The French 

 Xaintraille, Lahire, de la Tour de Chavigny, and the 

 Chevalier de Lafayette made a desperate effort to 

 stop the convoy, but were routed with much slaughter. 



1825 to 1835. 

 Lent. 'APOLOGY FOR LENT.' 



"Father Prout " (Rev. F. Mahony, P.P., Watergrass 

 Hill, co. Cork) says : Lent is an institution which 

 should long since have been rescued from the cobwebs 



