Only tanners may buy raw hides. Only
leatherworkers may buy leather. Only sufficiently strong and
substantial leather may be used for sole-leather. Curriers may not
be tanners. Curriers may not refuse to curry leather. London
searchers shall inspect leather, seal and mark that which is
sufficient, and seize any that is insufficiently tanned, curried,
wrought, or used.
Fishermen and their guides may continue to use the coastland for
their fishing activities despite the trespass to landowners.
Since sails for ships in recent years have been made in the realm
instead of imported, none shall make such cloth unless he has been
apprenticed in such or brought up in the trade for seven years.
This is to stop the badness of such cloth.
Any person killing any pheasant, partridge, dove, pigeon, duck or
the like with any gun, crossbow, stonebow, or longbow, or with
dogs and nets or snares, or taking the eggs of such from their
nests, or tracing or taking hares in the snow shall be imprisoned
for three months unless he pays 20s. per head or, after one
month's imprisonment, have two sureties bound for 400s. This is
because the past penalty of payment hasn't deterred offenders, who
frequently cannot pay.
Persons affected by the plague may not leave their houses or be
deemed felons and suffer death. This is to avoid further
infection. The towns may tax their inhabitants for the relief of
infected persons.
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