The gentleman's recreation in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.

An Abstract of such Penal STATUTES As Relate to FISHING.

13. EDw. 1. cap. 47. No Salmons shell be taken from the Nativity of our Lady unto St. Martin's day. Young Salmons may not be destroy'd nor taken by Nets nor other Engines, at Mill pools from the midst of April until St. John Paptist. The Penalties you may see in the said Statute at large.

I. Eliz. cap. 17. None shall take and kill any young Brood, Spawn, os Fry of Eels, Salmon, Pike, or any other Fish, in any Flood-gate, Pipe at the tail of a Mill, Wear, or in any Straights, Streams, Brooks, Rivers fresh or salt. Nor take or kill any Salmons, or Trouts not being in season, being Ripper Salmons, or Ripper Trouts, Shedder Salmons, or Shedder Trouts.

II. None shall take or kill any Pike or Pickeril not being in length ten inches Fish, nor Salmon not being in length sixteen inches Fish, nor Trout under eight inches, nor Barbel under twelve inches.

III. None shall take Fish with any manner of Trammel, &c. in any River or other places, but one∣ly with Net or Trammel, whereof every Besh or

Mask shall be two inches and ½ broad. Angling ex∣cepted.

IV. Nevertheless this Statute allows Smelts, Loaches, Minnows, Gudgeons, Eeles, &c. to be taken by Net, &c. in such places, and such ways as hereto∣fore they have been.

V. The penalty for every offence is 20s. and the Fish so taken, as also the Engine or Device whatso∣ever whereby the offence was committed.

5 Eliz. cap. 21. None may by day or night break down, cut out, or destroy any Head or Dam of any Ponds, Pools, Motes, &c. where any Fish shall be put in or stored withal by the owners thereof. Nor shall Take, Kill, or Steal away any of the said Fish in the said Ponds, &c. against the will of the Owner.

22 & 23 Car. 2 cap. 25. It is not, lawful for any person to use any Casting-net, Thief-net, Trammel, Shove-net, or other Net; nor to use any Angle, Hair, Noose, Spear, or Trowl: Not to lay any Nets, UUears, Pots, Fish-hooks, or other Engines; Or to take any Fish by any other means or device whatso∣ever, in any River, Sew, Pond, Bote, or other UUa∣ter; Nor be aiding or assisting thereunto, without the License or consent of the Lord or Owner of the said Water. And in case any person be convict of any of these Offences, by his own confession, or by Oath of one sufficient Witness, within one moneth after the Offence be committed, before any Justice of the Peace of such County, Riding, Division, or Place, wherein such be committed; every such person in Taking, Stealing, or Killing Fish, shall for chery such Offence give to the Party or Parties grieved or injured such recompence for his or their Damages, and within such time as the said Justice shall appoint, not exceed∣ing treble Damages: And over and above pay down presently unto the Overseers for the Poor where such

Difence is committed, such sum of Money, not ex∣ceeding 10s. as the said Iustice shall think meet. And in default of payment, as aforesaid, the same to be le∣vied by distress of the Difenders Goods, by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of such Iustice before whom the Difender shall be convicted, rendring the overplus, if any be: And for want of Disteess the Difender or Difenders shall be committed to the house of Correcti∣on, for such time as the Iustice shall think fit, not ex∣ceeding one Month, unless the party offending shall enter into Bond with one competent Surery or Sure∣ties to the party iniured, not exceeding ten pounds, never to offend in like manner.

II. And rvery Iustice of Peace, before whom such Difender shall be convict, may take, cut in pieces, and destroy all such Angles, Spears, Hairs, Nooses, Trowls, Wears, Pots, Fish-hooks, Nets, or other Engines whatsoever, wherewith such Difender as a∣foresaid shall be taken or apprehended.

III. Nevertheless, any person aggrieved may ap∣peal to the Iustices of the Peace in their next quarter Sessions; who may give relief, and make such Order therein as shall be agreeable to the Tenor of this Act: whose Order therein shall be final, if no title of Land, Royalty, or Fishery be therein concerned.