Gamesters, such as are appointed to set to Cocks and 

 put them fair in and no others (without permission of 

 the Mastcy of the Pit] shall set in the lower Ring ; and 

 that the said Master of the Pit shall have Authority 

 at all times to remove such as he thinks not meet to 

 set in the lower or second King : and also make room 

 for those that are of the better sort and to place them 

 there at his pleasure according to his Discretion 



XVI Item. It is ordered, That all Controversies which 

 arise or come by means of the Sport of Cock-fighting 

 upon any of the Orders above written, or otherwise 

 between Party and Party, shall be determined by the 

 Master of the Pit where the said Controversy did arise, 

 with Six or Four of the ancient and best experienced 

 Gamesters there, being called by the Consent of both 

 Parties, to assert him therein 



XVII Item. That none shall strike or draw Weapon to 

 strike any Man upon pain, for every time so offending 

 of Forty Shillings 



XVIII Item. For the better observation of all the 

 Orders before written, It is ordered and agreed That if 

 any Person shall offend in any of the said Premises, he 

 presently pay his Forfeiture ; the which being adjudged, 

 if he shall refuse to do. then the Party so refusing to 

 be banished ; until he satisfy the Forfeiture by him so 

 committed or the Party so offended 



XIX Item. It is ordered, That the Forfeitures above said 

 shall be equally divided, the one Moiety thereof to be paid 

 to the Use of the Poor of the Parish, and the other Moiety 

 to be distributed and disposed of, as the Master of the Pit 

 shall think fit, unto such Feeders and Ancient Breeders of 

 Cocks as are or shall be decayed 



