198 THE DRIFFIELD ANGLER. 



ed three months, and pay treble damages ; 

 and after the expiration of the three months 

 shall find sureties for his good abearing for 

 seveu years, or remain, till he doth. 



By 22 and 23 of C. II. c. 25. If any per- 

 son shall use any net, angle, hair, noose* 

 troll, or spear ; or shall lay any weirs, pots, 

 fish-hooks, or other engines ; or shall take 

 any fish by any means or device whatsoever, 

 or be aiding thereunto, in any river, stew, 

 pond, or moat, 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, before one justice, in 

 one month after the offence ; every such 

 offender, in killing or taking fish, shall give 

 to the party injured such recompence, and in 

 such time, as the justice shall appoint, not 

 exceeding treble diamages; and shall also 

 pay to the overseers for the use of the poor, 

 such sum, hot exceeding tqn shillings, as the 

 justice shall think meet, to be levied by dis- 

 tress j and for want of distress, to be com-. 



