And
if any such shall be found begging after the day aforesaid, the
same shall be taken and put in the stocks on Cornhill for half a
day the first time, and the second time he shall remain in the
stocks one whole day, and the third time he shall be taken and
shall remain in prison for forty days and shall then forswear the
said city forever. And every constable and the beadle of every
ward of the said city shall be empowered to arrest such manner of
folks and to put them in the stocks in manner aforesaid."
The hundred year cry to "let the king live on his own" found
fruition in a 1352 statute requiring consent of the Parliament
before any commission of array for militia could be taken and a
1362 statute requiring purchases of goods and means of conveyance
for the king and his household to be made only by agreement with
the seller and with payment to him before the king traveled on,
instead of at the low prices determined unilaterally by the king's
purveyor.
Every man who has wood within the forest may take houseboot [right
to take wood for reapir of one's house] and heyboot [right to take
material for the maintenance of hedges and fences, and the making
of farming utensils] in his wood without being arrested so long as
it take such within the view of the foresters.
No fecal matter, dung, garbage, or entrails of animals killed
shall be put into ditches or rivers or other waters, so that
maladies and diseases will not be caused by corrupted and infected
air.
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