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a constable, or other peace-officer, with the 

 offender ami with the goods, who shall cany 

 them before a justice ; and on conviction before 

 such justice, the same shall be forfeited and de- 

 livered to the prosecutor ; and the offender shall 

 besides forfeit 20 s. to be levied by distress, by 

 warrant of such justice, and distributed, half to 

 the prosecutor, and half to the poor of the parish 

 where the offence was committed, (and any inha- 

 bitant of such parish, nevertheless may be a wit- 

 ness,) for want of sufficient distress, to be com- 

 mitted to the house of correction, to be kept to 

 hard labour for any time not exceeding three 

 months, unless the forfeiture be sooner paid. 

 Provided, that the justice may mitigate the said 

 penalty, so as not to remit above one half. Per- 

 sons aggrieved may appeal to the next sessions; 

 And the form of the conviction may be this : 



Be it remembered, that on this day of 

 in the year of the reign of G. B. 



is convicted before me one of his 



majesty's justices of the peace, for the of 



for and I do adjudge him 



to pay and forfeit the sum of Given under 



my hand and seal the day and year abovesaid. 

 S. 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. 



4. No person shall fasten any nets over rivers, 

 to stand continually day and night, on pain of 

 an hundred shillings to the king. 2 H. 6. c. 15. 



Our plenteous streams a various race supply, 

 The bright ey'd j/e;rh, with fins of Tynan-dye, 

 The silver eel, in shii.ing volumes roli'd, 

 The yellow carp, in scales be-dropp'd with gold, 

 Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, 

 pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains. 



' WINDSOR ro REST* 



