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attained at the suit of the party, great and large 

 amends shall be awarded according to the tres- 

 pass ; and they shall have three years imprison- 

 ment, and after shall make fine at the king's 

 pleasure, (if they have whereof) and then shall 

 find good surety that after they shall not commit 

 the like trespass ; and if they have not whereof 

 to make fine, after three years imprisonment, 

 they shall find like surety ; and if they cannot 

 find like surety, they shall abjour the realm. 

 And if none sue within the year and day, the 

 king shall have suit. 3. Ed. I. c. 0. Note, 

 those are trespassers in ponds/ who endeavour 

 to take fish therein. 2. Inst. 200. 



3. If any person shall unlawfully break, cut, 

 or destroy, any head or dam of a fish-pond, or 

 shall wrongfully fish therein, with intent to take 

 and kill fish, he shall on convection, at the suit 

 of the king, or of the party, at the assizes or 

 sessions, be imprisoned three months, and pay 

 treble damages ; and after three months is ex- 

 pired shall find sureties for his good abearing 

 for seven vears, or remain in prison till he doth, 

 .5. El. c.21. s. 2. 6. 



4. Whereas divers idle, disorderly and mean 

 persons, betake themselves to the stealing, tak- 

 ing and killing of fish, out of ponds, pools, 

 mots, stews, and other several waters and rivers, 

 to the great damage of the owners thereof; it is 

 enacted that if any person shall use any net, 

 angle, hair, noose, troll, or spear: or shall lay 

 any wears, pots, fish-hooks, or other engines; or 

 shall take any fish by any means or device what- 

 ever, or by aiding thereunto, in any river, stew, 

 pond, rnot, or other water, without the consent of 

 the lord or owner of the water ; and be thereof 

 convicted, by confession, or oath of one witness^ 



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