An ordinance prohibiting cock-matches. Fryday March 31. 1654. Ordered by His Highness the Lord Protector, and his Council, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Henry Scobell Clerk of the Council England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A74509 of text xxx in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E1063_24). 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 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A74509 Thomason E1063_24 ESTC R209566 99868437 99868437 169190 2240962230

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AN ORDINANCE Prohibiting COCK-MATCHES .

blazon of the Commonwealth
Fryday March 31. 1654.

ORdered by His Highness the Lord Protector , and his Council , That this Ordinance be forthwith printed and published .

HENRY SCOBELL Clerk of the Council

London , Printed by William du-Gard and Henry Hills , Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector , 1654.

blazon of the Commonwealth
AN ORDINANCE Prohibiting Cock-Matches .

WHereas the Publique meetings and Assemblies of People together in divers parts of this Nation , under pretence of Matches for Cock-fighting , are by experience found to tend many times to the disturbance of the publique Peace , and are commonly accompanied with Gaming , Drinking , Swearing , Quarrelling , and other dissolute practices , to the dishonour of God , and do often produce the ruine of Persons and their Families . For prevention thereof , Be it Ordained by his Highness the Lord Protector , by and with the advice and consent of his Council , That from henceforth there shall be no publique or set meetings or Assemblies of any persons within England or Wales , upon Matches made for Cock-fighting ; And that every such meeting , and assembly of people for the end and purposes aforesaid , is hereby declared to be an unlawful Assembly , and shall be so adjudged , deemed , and taken to be , and punished ; And all Sheriffs , Iustices of the Peace , Maiors , Bayliffs , Constables , and Head-boroughs , within their several Counties , Cities , Limits , and Iurisdictions , are hereby required to suppress , hinder , and disperse all such meetings and assemblies .

Fryday , March 31. 1654.

ORdered by his Highness the Lord Protector , and his Council , That this Ordinance be forthwith printed and published .

Henry Scobell Clerk of the Council .