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A History of the County of Middlesex
… entire absence of any cases relating to deer-stealing or poaching in the Middlesex County Records throughout the … these 131 convictions, however, only four were for night poaching and the remaining 127 for trespassing in the day … rather as a criterion of the number and audacity of the poaching fraternity in London and the suburbs than of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… exercised, and the derelict common fen was subject to poaching until the Second World War, when it was let for …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… to be recorded in the 17th century and later. 24 Salmon-poaching at Sutton was alleged in 1729 25 and a fisherman was …
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A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… costs, 5 and fuelled occasional wood stealing and poaching. 6 Social life is poorly recorded, although …
A History of the County of Warwick
… early as 1268. 81 In 1398 the Duke of Surrey complained of poaching there as well as in his park of Wedgnock. 82 A …
A History of the County of Leicester
… and arrows were still in wide use, if only for hunting and poaching. 213 Transport and communications were served by the …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… been in dispute with the archbishop, admitting in 1516 to poaching many times in his park. 8 Ellerker bought a house in …
A History of the County of York
… Hospital, and his brother, Thomas, was in gaol in 1293 for poaching in the king's Fishpond of the Foss. In 1278, …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… to take any dogs, nets, guns or other engines for poaching (ibid. 180). Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 128. Ibid. …