S56 EACINGj WAGERS AND GAMING. 



playing there, until the keepers should find sureties and 

 the other parties should give security to abstainlfrom such 

 practices for the future (c). The chief authorities in 

 towns were to make weekly search in such places as 

 were suspected of being gaming-houses, or, at the furthest, 

 once a month, under a penalty of forty shillings {d) ; and 

 the leases of houses used for unlawful games were to be 

 void (e). 



" No manner of artificer or craftsman, husbandman, 

 apprentice, labourer, servant at husbandry, journeyman, 

 mariners, fishermen, watermen or any serving man," was 

 to play at " the tables, tennis, dice, cards, bowls, closh, 

 coyting, legating, or any other unlawful game out of 

 Christmas, under the pain of twenty shillings forfeit each 

 time;" and in Christmas they were to play in "their 

 master's houses or in their master's presence," and no 

 person was to play at any " bowl or bowls in open places 

 out of his garden or orchard," under the penalty of six 

 shillings and eightpence (/). 



Under certain restrictions and regulations, however, and 

 on giving sufiicient security, a person might sue for a 

 placard to have common gaming in his house {g). And a 

 master might license his servant to play with him or any 

 other gentleman at his own house or in his presence (h) . 

 Also a nobleman or person with an income of 100/. a-year 

 might license his servants to play among themselves at his 

 or their houses, gardens or orchards (i). 

 Reign of In the reign of Edward the Sixth, it was found that a 



Edward the great many horses had been exported to foreign countries, 

 ^^ ' and particularly to Scotland, which was supposed to have 



been "the occasion of strength to the king's enemies," 

 and to have caused the decay of the breed of good horses ; 

 and consequently the legislature in a.d. 1547 passed " An 

 Act for not conveying horses out of the realm;" by 

 which every person endeavouring to convey a horse into 

 Scotland, not only forfeited the animal, but became liable 

 to a penalty of forty pounds (J). But every person was 

 permitted to take abroad with him horses or geldings, on 

 making oath that he took them for his own use on the 

 journey, and not with intent to sell them (k) ; and any 



(c) 33 Hen. 8, c. 9,s. 14. (A) Ibid. s. 22. 



(d) Ibid. s. 15. (i) Ibid. s. 23. 



(«) Ibid. s. 21, repealed by 26 & {J) l Edw. 6, c. 5, s. 1, now re- 



27 Vict. c. 125. pealed by 3 Geo. 4, u. 41. 



(/) Ibid. s. 16. (/!■) Ibid. s. 6. 



(f/) Ibid. s. 13. 



