per year.
The same merchants and burgesses with goods and chattels worth
13,333s. and esquires and gentlemen with land or rent within 400s.
per year may not wear gold cloth, miniver fur, ermine [white] fur,
or embroidered stones. A knight with land or rents within 2,667s.
yearly are limited to cloth of 80s., but his wife may wear a stone
on her head. Knights and ladies with land or rents within 8,000s.
to 20,000s. yearly may not wear fur of ermine or of letuse, but
may wear gold, and such ladies may wear pearls as well as stones
on their heads. The penalty is forfeiture of such apparel. This
statute is necessary because of "outrageous and excessive apparel
of diverse persons against their estate and degree, to the great
destruction and impoverishment of all the land".
If anyone finds a hawk [used to hunt birds, ducks, and pheasant]
that a lord has lost, he must take it to the sheriff for keeping
for the lord to claim. If there is no claim after four months, the
finder may have it only if he is a gentleman. If one steals a hawk
from a lord or conceals from him the fact that it has been found,
he shall pay the price of the hawk and be imprisoned for two
years.
No laborer or any other man who does not have lands and tenements
of the value of 40s. per year shall keep a greyhound [or other
hound or dog] to hunt, nor shall they use nets or cords or other
devices to take [deer, hare, rabbits, nor other gentlemen's game],
upon pain of one year imprisonment.
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