290 THE GAME LAWS. 



that in about seven years after King Charles the II. had con- 

 firmed to the citizens all their liberties and privileges, the qua* 

 lification act was made, enacting "that all and every person not 

 having, &c. are declared to be unqualified persons." And that 

 in the said act there is no reservation or exception in favour of 

 the citizens of London. But, there was a statute made, 2 

 W. and M. c. 8. to reverse a judgment given in the court of 

 king's bench against the mayor, aldermen, &c. of London ; and 

 by that statute all the privileges which had been forfeited were 

 re-granted and confirmed. 



DOG CAUSE. In the court of king's bench, at Westminster, 

 Jan. 10, 1822, an appeal against the decision of an Essex jury 

 (under direction from the judge to that effect) was heard, and 

 the verdict obtained at the assizes against defendant, for keeping 

 a setter dog, was now set aside. At the trial the presumption 

 was that the mere possession of a dog used in destroying game 

 was proof enough of its being so used ; but Mr* Justice Best 

 suggested that a man might be a breeder of such dogs without 

 using them as game-dogs. And Mr. Justice Bailey thought, 

 if a pointer were kept in a yard chained up by day, and let loose 

 at night, being so trained as to guard the premises, he was to 

 be considered as a yard-dog and not a game dog. The name 

 of the cause is " Hay wood v. Horner." 



as the reign of George I. reckons among the modern diversiens of the 

 Londoners, "Riding on horseback and hunting with my Lord Mayor's 

 hounds, when the common-hunt goes out." 



