Eating fish instead of meat in Lent in the springtime
remained a tradition.)
For repairing of highways, the supervisors may take the rubbish or
smallest stones of any quarry along the road in their precinct.
Embezzlement or theft by a servant of his master's goods of 40s.
or more is a felony.
No one shall forge a deed of land, charter, sealed writing, court
roll or will.
No one shall libel or slander so as to cause a rebellion.
Cut-purses and pick-purses shall not have benefit of clergy.
A debtor may not engage in a fraudulent collusion to sell his land
and goods in order to avoid his creditors.
A person robbing a house of 5s. by day when no one is there shall
not have benefit of clergy, because too many poor persons who
cannot hire a servant to look after their house when they go to
work have been robbed.
When the hue and cry is raised for a robbery in a hundred, and
other hundreds have been negligent, faulty, or defective in
pursuit of the robber, then they must pay half the damages to the
person robbed, while the hundred in which the robbery occurred
pays the other half. Robbers shall be pursued by horse and by
foot.
The price of barrels shall be set by mayors of the towns where
they are sold.
No man under the degree of knight may wear a hat or cap of velvet.
Caps may not be made of felt, but only knit wool. Only hats may be
made of felt. This is to assist the craft of making wool caps.
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