154 BEST'S ART OF ANGLING. 



Jabour for three months, if not paid in the 

 mean time. Id. S, 1,5. 



And persons aggrieved may appeal to the next 

 Sessions. Id. S. 17. 



2. No salmon shall be taken in the Humber, 

 Ouze, Trent, Done, Aire, Dai went, YV harfe, Nid, 

 Yore, Swale, Tees, Tine, Eden, or any other water 

 wheiein salmon are taken, between Sept. 8 and 

 Nov. 1 1 . Nor shall any young salmon be taken at 

 millpoo!s(norin other places, 13. R.Sst.R.slJ.c. 

 19.) from Mid-April to Midsummer, on pain of 

 having the nets and engines burnt for the first of- 

 fence : for the second, imprisonment for a quarter 

 of a year; for the third, a whole year ; and, as the 

 trespassincieaseth,so shall the punishment. And 

 overseers shall be assigned to enquire thereof. 

 13 Ed. 1. st. 1. c. 47- That is, under the great 

 seal, and by authority of parliament 2. Inst.477. 



And no person shall put in the waters of Tha- 

 mise, Humber., Ouze, Trent, nor any other wa- 

 ters, in any time of the year, any nets called 

 stalkers, nor other nets nor engines whatsoever, 

 by which the fry or breed of salmon, lampreys, 

 or any other fish, may in any wise be taken or 

 destroyed : on the like pain. 13 B. 2 st. I.e. 1Q. 



And the waters of Lon, Wyre, Mersey, RybbyJ, 

 and all other waters in Lancashire, shall he put in 

 defence as to taking of Salmon to Michaelmas to 

 Candlemas, and in no other time of the year. 

 Ard conservators shall be appointed in like 

 manner. 13 K. 2. st. I.e. 19. 



And the justices of the peace (and the mayor, 

 of London, on the Thames and JVledway,) shall 

 survey the offences in both the acts above-men- 

 tioned ; and shall survey and search ail ihe wears 

 in such rivers ; that they shah not be very strait 

 for the destruction of such fry and brood, but of 



