GAME. 
to such lord, or immediately employed and 
appointed to take and kill game for the sole 
use of the lord; other persons, under colour 
of authority for taking and killing game, or 
keeping any dogs or engines whatsoever for 
that purpose, shall forfeit 5l. in like manner. 
3 G. I. c. 11. 
Every deputation of a game-keeper to be 
registered with the clerk of the peace, or in 
the sheriff’s or steward’s court-books of the 
county, &c. where the lands lie, and annu- 
ally take out certificate thereof, stamped 
■with a half-guinea stamp (now 1/. Is.). 25 
Geo. III. sess. 2. 
Every gune-keeper, from and after the 
passing of this act, who shall deliver his name 
and place of abode as aforesaid, and require 
a certificate, shall be annually entitled there- 
to, stamped as before directed, from the clerk 
of the peace or his deputy, sheriff or steward, 
clerk, See. to the effect of the form in the act 
set forth. Id. 
Clerk of the peace, &c. after signing cer- 
tificate, shall issue the same stamped, to the 
person registering the deputation, on requir- 
ing the same, for which he may receive Is. 
Id. 
If any person to whom any deputation or 
appointment of a game-keeper shall have 
been, or at any time thereafter shall be, 
granted, by any lord or lady of a manor, &c. 
shall, for the space of 20 days after the depu- 
tation or appointment shall be granted, ne- 
glect or refuse to register the same, and take 
out a certificate as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and 
pay the sum of 20/. to be applied as the law 
directs. Id. 
Neglect or refusal of issuing certificates, 
incurs a forfeiture of 20/. recoverable in the 
courts of Westminster, court of session, of 
justiciary, or exchequer in Scotland, by action 
of debt or information, for the use of the 
plaintiff, with double costs of suit. Id. 
Clerk of the peace, &c. may issue his cer- 
tificate to any game-keeper first appointed 
in any year after 1st of July in that year. 
Id. 
If any lord or lady of a manor, or proprie- 
tor of land, shall make any new appointment 
of a game-keeper, and shall register the de- 
putation with the clerk of the peace, See. and 
shall obtain a new certificate thereon, the 
first shall be void ; and any person acting 
under the same, after notice, shall be liable 
ft> all the penalties of the game-laws, and 
those against unqualified persons. Id. 
Hares . — Every person tracing or coursing 
hares in the snow shall be committed for one 
year (31 Eliz. c. 5.), unless he pay to the 
churchwardens, for the use of the poor, 20.?. 
for every hare, or become bound by recog- 
nizances, with two sureties in 20/. apiece, 
not to offend again ; and every person taking 
or destroying hares with any sort of engine, 
shall forfeit for every bare 20,?. in like man- 
ner. 1 Jac. I. c. 27. Persons found using 
engines, liable to the punishment inflicted as 
above, by 31 Eliz. c. 5. Unqualified persons 
keeping or using sporting- dogs, or engines to 
kill or destroy hares, shall forfeit 51. to the 
informer, with double costs (2 Geo. III. c. 
1,9 ), by distress, or be committed for three 
months for the first offence, and for every 
other four. 5 Anne, c. 14. Taking or kill- 
ing hares in the night-time, forfeits 5/. (9 
Anne, c. 23.), the whole to the informer, 
Vol. 1. 
with double costs. 2 Geo. III. c. 19. Kill- 
ing or taking with gun, dog, or engine, a hare 
in the night, between the hours of seven at 
night and six in the morning, from October 
12 to February 12, and between the hours of 
nine at night and four in the morning, from 
Feb. 12. to Oct. 12, or in the day-time upon 
Sunday or Christmas-day, to forfeit not less 
than 10/. nor more than 20/. for the first of- 
fence ; nor less than 20/. nor more than 30/. 
for the second offence; and 30/. for the third 
offence, with costs and charges ; and, upon 
neglect or refusal, be committed for six or 
twelve calendar months, and may be public- 
ly whipped : final appeal to the quarter-ses- 
sions. 13 Geo. III. c. 80. Persons armed 
and disguised stealing them, felony without 
clergy. Geo. I. c. 22. Higler, chapman, 
carrier, inn-keeper, victualler, or alehouse- 
keeper, having in his custody, or buying, 
selling, or offering to sale, any hare, unless 
sent up by some person qualified (or any 
person selling, exposing, or offering for sale 
hares, &c. 28 Geo. II. c. 22.) shall forfeit 
for every hare 5/., the whole to the informer. ' 
2 Geo. III. c. 92. 
Heath-fowl . — For preserving heath-cocks 
or polts, no person whatsoever, on any waste, 
shall presume to burn, between Feb. 2 and 
June 24, any grig, ling, heath, furze, goss, 
or fern, on pain of commitment for a month 
or ten days, to be whipped and kept to hard 
labour. 4 and 5 W. and M. c. 23. Shoot- 
ing heath-cocks, grouse, or moor-game, con- 
trary to 1 Jac. 1. c. 27. and killing any of 
them in the night, or using gun, dog, or en- 
gine, with such intent, contrary to 9 Anne, 
c. 25. and 13 Geo. III. c. 80.; and carriers 
and others having such in their possession, 
contrary to 9 Anne, c. 14. ar® all liable to 
the same penalties, and recoverable in the 
same manner, as those offences are subjected 
to shooting, &c. hares. 
Partridges . — ’faking partridges by nets or 
other engines, upon another’s freehold, with- 
out special leave of the owner of the same, 
penalty 10/. half to him who shall sue, and 
half to the owner or possessioner. 1 1 H. VIII. 
c. 17, Shooting, Sec. at partridges with gun 
or bow, or taking them, Sec. with dogs or 
nets, by 7 Jac. I. c. 1 1. or taking their eggs 
out of their nest, liable as persons shooting, 
Sec. at hares, and also 20.?. for every bird or 
egg. Selling, or buying to sell again, a par- 
tridge (except reared and brought up in 
houses, or from beyond sea), forfeits for every 
partridge 10.?. half to him who will sue, and 
half to the informer. 1 Jac. I. c. 27. Tak- 
ing, killing, or destroying partridges in the 
night, forfeits for every partridge 10/. half 
to him who will sue, and half to the lord of 
the manor, unless he license or cause the said 
taking or killing, in which case his half shall 
go to the poor, recoverable by churchwar- 
dens; and if not paid in ten days, to be im- 
prisoned for one month ; and moreover shall 
give bond to the justice, with good sureties, 
not to offend again for two years. 23 Eliz. 
c. 10. to kill a partridge in the night, pe- 
nalty 5/. 9 Anne, c. 25. The whole where- 
of is given to the informer (2 Geo. III. c. 
19.) and may be recovered within three 
months (5 Anne, c. 14.), before a justice of 
peace, or within six months, by action in the 
courts of record at Westminster (9 Anne, 
c. 25.) with double costs. 2 Geo. Ilf. c. 19- 
Keeping or using any greyhounds, setting 
iV 
800 
dogs, or any engine for destroying partridges, 
penalty 51. to be levied and recovered as the 
like penalty for killing hares. Penalties for 
using gun, dog, snare, net, or other engine, 
with intent to take or destroy partridges in 
the night, or on Sunday, or Christmas-day, 
same as using them against hares, by 13 G . 
III. c. 80. Carriers and others having par- 
tridges in their possession, liable to the same 
forfeitures and penalties as having hares; 
and the same law against shooting them by 
unqualified persons as for killing hares. 
Pheasants . — All the laws respecting the 
penalties and recovery of them, for taking 
them by nets, snares, or other engines, with- 
out licence of the owner, by 1 1 H. VIII. c. 
17. and for*shooting or destroying them with 
dogs or snares, Sec. by 7 Jac. 1. c. 11. or 
taking their eggs, by 1 Jac. I. c. 27. and for 
selling, and buying them to sell again, by 
last-cited act (except that the penalty for a 
pheasant is 20s.), and for destroying them in 
the night (except as aforesaid), by 23 Eliz. 
c. 10. 9 Anne, c. 25. and 13 G. III. c. 80. 
and for keeping or using sporting-dogs or en- 
gines for destroying them on Sunday or 
Christmas-day, by 13 G. III. c. 80. and for 
carriers and others having them in their pos- 
session. All these laws are, mutatis mutandis, 
verbatim the same as those respecting par- 
tridges. 
Prosecutions . — Any one prosecuted for 
any thing done in pursuance of this act may 
plead the general issue, and give the special 
matter in evidence for his defence; and if 
upon trial verdict pass for the defendant, or 
plaintiff become nonsuited, defendant shall 
have treble costs of plaintiff'. 25 Geo. III. 
sess. 2. s. 28. 
Qualifications for killing game are, 1. hav- 
ing a freehold estate of 100/. per annum, 22 
and 23 Car. II. c. 25. ; 2. a leasehold estate 
for 99 years, of 150/. per annum; 3. the eld- 
est son or heir apparent to an esquire, or 
person of superior degree ; 4. the owner or 
keeper of a forest, park, chace, or warren. 
Unqualified person keeping dogs or engines 
to destroy game, to forfeit 5/. 5 Anne, c. 
14 . 
No person (other than the king’s son), un- 
less he has lands of freehold to the value of 
five marks a year, shall have any game of 
swans, on pain of forfeiting them, half to the 
king, and half to any person so qualified, who 
shall seize the same. 22 Ed. IV. c. t). 
Any gentleman or other that may dispend 
40.?. a year freehold, may hunt and take wild 
fowls with their spaniels only, without using 
a net or other engine, except the long bow. 
25 Hen. VIII. c. 11. From persons not 
having lands of 40.*. a year, or not worth in 
goods 200/. using gun or bow to kill deer, 
any person having 100/. may seize the same 
to his use. 3 Jac. I. c. 13. 
Every person qualified to kill game, shall, 
previous to his shooting at, killing, or destrov- 
ing any game, take out a certificate. See 
Certificate. 
Sporting seasons .— The time for sporting 
in the day is from one hour before sun-rising^ 
until one' hour after sun-setting. 10 G. Ill 
c. 19. 
For bustards, the sporting season is, from 
December 1 to March 1. 
For grouse or red grouse, from August 1 1 
to December 10. 
