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Judgment given, what he thinks thereof: and if any 

 Man speak afterwards, he shall, for every such 

 offence in speaking, pay Sixpence 



XI Item. That all Betts made either within or without 

 the Pit shall stand good : and that one cannot go off 

 without consent of the other, and all Betts un- 

 demanded before the next Battle fights, to be lost 



XII Item. If any Man have made a Lay or Beit, and 

 cannot tell, or call to mind with whom he laid or 

 betted such a Lay, then if he desire openly in the Pit 

 that the Party with whom he laid would give him the 

 one half of the same, if he doth not confess it, and give 

 him the one half of the same, then it is allowed anyone 

 that knows the Bett to declare it, and the Party so 

 refusing to confess it, shall pay the whole Bett: Provided 

 That no Man may tell before the Party said he is con- 

 tended to take as aforesaid ; but if any man do tell 

 him before the Party said he is content to take the 

 Half of his Bett then the Party so telling is to pay the 

 said Lay or Bett 



XIII Item. If any Man lay more Money than he hath 

 to pay, or cannot satisfy the Party with whom he 

 hath laid, either by his Credit or some Friend's 

 Word : the which if he cannot do, then he is to be 

 put into a Basket to be provided for that purpose, and 

 to be hanged up in that Basket in some convenient 

 Place in the Cock-pit that all men may know him, 

 during the time of Play that Day ; and also the Party 

 so offending never to be admitted to come into the Pit 

 until he hath made satisfaction 



XIV Item. That if any Man in a Pit shall prefer a 

 Bett and the Party that lays with him say Done, and 

 he answers Done to him again, it shall be judged a 

 lawfull Bett 



XV Item. It is ordered, That Persons of the better 

 Rank and Quality of the Cockers, Cock Masters and 



