Returning before the expiration of the term is
punishable by death.
Anyone assaulting another with an offensive weapon with a design
to rob may be transported for seven years.
Any person armed with swords, fire-arms, or other offensive
weapons and having their faces blackened or otherwise being
disguised, who appears in any forest, park, or grounds enclosed by
a wall or fence wherein deer are kept (including the king's deer)
or in any warren or place where hares or conies are kept or in any
high road, open heath, common, or down, or who unlawfully hunts,
wounds, kills, or steals any deer or steals any hare or rabbit or
steals any fish out of any river or pond or who unlawfully and
maliciously breaks down the head or mound of any fish pone,
causing the loss of fish, or who unlawfully and maliciously kills,
maims, or wounds any cattle, or who cuts down any trees planted in
any avenue or growing in any garden or orchard for ornament,
shelter, or profit, or who sets fire to any house, barn or out
house [outer building], hovel, or stack of grain, straw, hay or
wood, or who willfully and maliciously shoots any person in any
dwelling house or other place, or who sends any letter with no
signature or a fictitious signature, demanding money, venison, or
other valuable thing, or who forcibly rescues any person lawfully
in custody for any of these offenses, or who procures others by
gift or promise of money or other reward to join with him in any
such unlawful act is guilty of felony and shall suffer death
without benefit of clergy.
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