30 THE SHOOTER'S <smi)E. 



more persons are found in any forest, chase, park, 

 plantation, field, &c. or other open or inclosed ground, 

 in the night (viz. between the hours of 8 and 6 from 

 the 1st of October to the 1st of February, or between 

 10 and 4 from the 1st of February to the 1st of Oc- 

 tober), with any gun or other instrument to destroy 

 game, the keeper or occupier is authorised to appre- 

 hend such offenders, who are liable (by 17 Geo. II.) 

 to be committed to the house of correction as rogues 

 and vagabonds. 



4 & 5 Will, and Mary enables lords of manors, 

 or any persons authorised by them as keepers, to re- 

 sist such offenders, and to suffer no punishment on 

 that account. 



For tracing hares in the snow a penalty of twenty 

 shillings is inflicted (1 Jac. I. c. 27). Taking them 

 in snares or gins is punished in the same manner. 

 The 22d & 23d Car. II. inflicts a penalty of ten 

 shillings for this offence. These are never resorted 

 to; as a true sportsman will make use of no such 

 means, and a poacher is more properly punished by 

 resorting to his want of certificate, &c. 



Jac. I. c. 27. inflicts a penalty of twenty shillings 

 for the wilful destruction of every egg of a pheasant 

 or partridge* The eggs of wild fowl are also pro- 

 tected by a statute of 25 Henry VI11. c. 1 1, 



