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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… cricket match played on the ice in 1850. 93 To discourage poaching man-traps had been set in 1786, and spring-guns in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… transgressors of the forest laws, but their offences were poaching and damage, and assarts were scarcely mentioned. 45 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… for vagrants, occasionally punishments for trespass or poaching. 109 We have also the usual undertakings to keep the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… grounds. They claimed that the chase was conducive to poaching, stealing, and smuggling, with their consequences, …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… sparedGentlemen that love country sports know what 23 poaching isLet us not wink and strike. Sir Thomas Clifford …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… on the parish's farms, in winter taken in to prevent poaching of the pastures. By 1808 Horsford mill stood on …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… amount of provision and occasions of social conflict. Much poaching went on, and numerous presentments to manor courts … practice that was encouraged by the widespread belief that poaching was no theft. 42 In 1602 John Norden, surveyor of … 43 Manorial juries were induced to pass bylaws against poaching. In 1570 the inhabitants of Longden manor were …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… estate in the 1850s and secured the passing of the 1862 Poaching Prevention Act. That and a prosecution of his own …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 3 Barley Park was so called by the 15th century, and poaching there by Oxford scholars was recorded in 1506. 4 By …