An act to prevent the killing of deer. England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A74129 of text R211312 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.16[15]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A74129 Wing E1155 Thomason 669.f.16[15] ESTC R211312 99870042 99870042 163172 2240953889

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A74129) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163172) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f16[15]) An act to prevent the killing of deer. England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament of England, London : 1651. Order to print dated: Thursday, the 24th of July, 1651. Signed: Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti. With engraving of Parliamentary seal at head of text. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Game laws -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A74129 R211312 (Thomason 669.f.16[15]). civilwar no An Act to prevent the killing of deer. England and Wales. Parliament. 1651 1 346 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-05 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-10 Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
AN ACT To prevent The killing of Deer .

Be it Enacted by this present Parliament , and the Authority thereof , And it is hereby Enacted and Ordained , That if any person or persons shall from and after the First day of August , 1651. kill , hurt , or take away any Red or Fallow-Deer , in any Forrest , Chase or Park , or other Inclosed Ground , within this Commonwealth , without the consent of the Owner or person chiefly intrusted with the custody thereof ; or shall be ayding or assisting therein , and shall be convicted thereof by confession of the Party , or by the Oath of one or more credible Witnesses ( before one or more Justices of the Peace , who are hereby Impowered to Administer an Oath to that purpose ) such person being prosecuted for such Offence , within three Moneths after such Offence done , That then every person so offending , shall forfeit for every such Offence the Sum of Fifteen pounds , to be levied by way of Distress upon the Goods and Chattels of every such Offender , by Warrant under the Iustices Hand before whom such Conviction shall be made ; the one moyety of the said Fifteen pounds to be given to the Informer , and the other moyety to the Poor of the Parish where such Offence shall be committed ; and for want of Distress , the Offender shall be committed to Prison for Twelve moneths , without Bail or Mainprize . Provided , That where any Offender shall be punishable by force of this Act , that he shall not be prosecuted , nor incur the penalty of any other Law or Statute for the same Offence .

Thursday , the 24th of July , 1651.

Ordered by the Parliament , That this Act be forthwith Printed and Published .

Hen: Scobell , Cleric . Parliamenti .

London , Printed by John Field , Printer to the Parliament of England . 1651.