APPENDIX OF STATUTES. 



The penalty 

 for mainte- 

 nance of a 

 house for 

 unlawful 

 games. 



The penalty 

 for resorting 

 to a house 

 for unlawful 



Magistrates 

 may repress 

 unlawful 

 games and 

 punish 

 oiJenders. 



33 Henry VIII. Cap. 9. 



The Bill for the ifaintaining Artillery, and the Debarring of 

 Unlawful Games. 



Sect. 11. No manner of person or persons, of what degree, 

 quality or condition soever he or they be, from the Feast of the 

 Nativity of St. John Baptist, now nest coming, by himself, 

 factor, deput}', servant or other person shall for his or their 

 gain, lucre or living, keep, have, hold, occupy, exercise or main- 

 tain, any common house, alley or place (a) of dicing, table, or 

 carding, or any other manner of game prohibited by any 

 estatute heretofore made, or any unlawful new game now 

 invented or made, or any other new unlawful game hereafter to 

 be invented, found, had or made, upon pain to forfeit and pay 

 for every day keeping, having or maintaining, or suffering any 

 such game to be had, kept, executed, played or maintained 

 within any such house, garden, alley, or other place, contrary 

 to the form and effect of this estatute, forty shillings. 



12. And also every person using and haunting any of the 

 said houses and plays, and there playing, to forfeit for every 

 time so doing, six shillings and eight-pence. 



14. It shall be lawful to all and every the justices of 

 peace in every shire, mayors, sheriffs, bailifl's, and other head 

 officers within every city, town and borough within this realm, 

 from time to time, as well within liberties as without, as need 

 and case shall require, to come, enter and i-esort into, all and 

 everj' houses, places and allej's where such games shall be 

 suspected to be holden, exercised, used or occupied, contrary to 

 the form of this estatute ; and as well the keepers of the same, 

 as also the persons there haunting, resorting and playing, to 

 take, arrest and imprison, and them so taken and arrested to 

 keep ill prison unto such time as the keepers and maintainors 

 of the said plays and games have found sureties to the king's 

 use, to be bound by recognizance or otherwise, no longer to use, 

 keep or occupy any such house, play, game, alley or place (h) ; 

 and also that the persons there so found be in like case bound 



(a) Keeping a cock -pit is within 

 this statute; Dalton, c. 46. 



(i) For further provisions, see 

 2 Geo. 2, u. 28, s. 9, post. 



