Nor may they be administrators of estates, or
have custody of any child as guardian. Nor may they possess any
armor, gunpowder, or arms. Nor may anyone print or import Popish
books rosaries, or forfeit 40s.
No merchant may dress black rabbit skins, nor export them, unless
dressed by skinners and bought from them because the skinners have
been thus deprived of their livelihoods to their impoverishment
throughout the realm.
Beer may be exported when malt is at 16s. per quarter because
exporting beer instead of barley and malt will (1) increase the
export tax to the King, (2) increase income for coopers and
brewers, and (3) provide more jobs in transporting beer, which is
more voluminous, to the great comfort of the port towns.
Spawning and growing fish in harbors may not be taken by any nets
or weirs because this practice has hurt fishermen and the realm.
London may make a trench to bring water to the north part of the
city and shall compensate the owners of lands by agreement with
them of an amount or an amount determined by commissioners.
Actors profaning God, Jesus, or the Holy Ghost on stage are to be
penalized 200s.
No one shall sell beer or ale to an unlicensed alehousekeeper
because abuses there have become intolerable.
Every person convicted of drunkenness shall be penalized 5s. or
else placed in the stocks for six hours, because the loathsome and
odious sin of drunkenness has grown into common use lately and it
is the root of many other sins, such as bloodshed, stabbings,
murder, swearing, fornication, and adultery, and is detrimental to
the arts and manual trades and diverse workmen, who become
impoverished.
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