Creditors not wanting them released had to contribute
to their maintenance in gaol.
The making or selling of fireworks is forbidden or forfeit 5
pounds. Firing or throwing such from one's house onto or across
the street is a common nuisance with a penalty of 20s. This is to
avoid the loss of life and of eyes.
Treason to the king is to compass, imagine, or intend death or any
bodily harm tending to death, or maiming or wounding, or
imprisonment, or restraint as well as trying to depose him or levy
war against him. Also included is printing, writing, preaching, or
malicious speaking. Traitors shall suffer death and forfeiture as
in high treason.
Any malicious and willful burning or destroying of stacks of hay,
grain, or barns, or killing any horses, sheep, or cattle at
nighttime shall be felony and punished by transportation to the
American colonies for seven years.
Any person apprehending a thief or robber on the highway will be
rewarded 40 pounds from the local sheriff, to discourage the many
robberies and murders which have made travel dangerous. Also,
executors or persons murdered while trying to apprehend a robber
shall have the reward.
No more than 20 people may petition the king nor more than 10
people may assemble to present a petition to the king, because
more has been tumultuous and disorderly.
Anyone may without fee set up a hemp business including breaking,
hatchelling [separating the coarse part and broken pieces of the
stalk from the fine, fibrous parts by drawing the material through
long iron teeth set in a board], and dressing it or flax; making
and whitening thread, spinning, weaving, making, whitening, or
bleaching hemp or flax cloth; making twine or nets for fishing or
stoveing of cordage; or tapestry or hanging because the daily
importation of such has in effect taken the work from the poor and
unemployed of England.
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