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<HEAD>&para; This is the ordinaunce for the con&s;eruation and keping of the Quenes Maie&s;ties &s;wannes and &s;ygnettes, and of the Lordes &s;pirituall and temporall, and of her Commons within the Counties of Lincolne, Forthampton, Rutland, Huntyngton, and Cambridge, and the liberties &amp; fraunchy&s;e of the &s;ame: And for the con&s;eruation of fy&s;he and &s;owle, with the a&s;&s;i&s;&s;ing of all maner of nettes within the &s;ayde Counties and liberties of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_FYRST</HI> it is ordeined and &s;tatuted, that euery per&s;on hauing any Swannes, &s;hal begin yerely to marke or cau&s;e to be marked the &s;ame vpon the Munday next after Trinitie Sunday, &amp; no per&s;on afore, but after as the company may, &s;o that the Ma&s;ter of the Quenes game of Swannes or his deputies be there pre&s;ent, and yf any per&s;on or per&s;ons take vpon hym or them in marking to the contrary, to forfeyte to the Quene .xl. s.</P>
<P>&para; Item it is ordeyned, that no per&s;on nor per&s;ons beyng Swanheards nor other, &s;hal go on marking without the ma&s;ter of the Quenes game of Swannes or his deputie bee pre&s;ent, whith .vi. or .iii. of the company of Swanheardes, vpon paine to forfeyte to the Quenes grace .xl. s.</P>
<P>&para; Item it is ordeined, that no per&s;on take vp no &s;ignet nor &s;ignets vnmarked, nor make no &s;ale of the~, but yf the Quenes Swanherde or his deputie with .iii. other Swanherdes next adioynyng be pre&s;ent or haue knowledge of the &s;ame, vpon payne to forfeyt to the Quenes grace .xl. s.</P>
<P>&cross; Item it is ordeined that the Swanherde of the duchy of La~ca&s;ter whithin the &s;aid counties, nor with|in the liberties and fra&s;iches of the &s;ame, nor no other per&s;on for him nor by him, &s;hal make no &s;ale nor take vp no Swannes, nor marke them within the &s;aid duchy, without the Quenes Swanherde or his deputie be pre&s;ent, vpon payne to forfeyt to the Quenes grace .xl. s. And in like wi&s;e it is ordeyned that the Quenes Swanherde of the fore&s;aid counties nor his deputie, &s;hall not enter into the &s;aid duchy to take up any Swannes or &s;ignets, nor them to marke without the Swanherde of the duchy be pre&s;ent, vpon paine to forfeyte to the Quenes grace .xl. s.</P>
<P>&cross; Item it is ordeined, that if any Swannes or &s;ignets be found without the &s;aid duchy double marked or put out or right marke, that then it &s;halbe &s;ea&s;ed for the Quene, and to be delyuered to the mai&s;ter of the Quenes game of Swannes or to hys deputie, and &s;o to remayne to it be proued by .iiii. or .vi. &s;uffi|cient Swanherdes, to whom the &s;ayd Swa~nes or &s;ignets belong or appertaine, &s;o that the knowledge of the &s;ame be had by the &s;aide Swanherds after the &s;aid deliuery afore the &s;e&s;&s;ions of Swannes than next to be kept within the countie, where as it &s;hal ha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> the &s;aid Swans or &s;ignets to be &s;ea&s;ed and deli|uered in fourme afore&s;aid. And yf &s;o be the proprety of the &s;ame Swannes or &s;ignets can not be know&emacr; by the &s;aid &s;e&s;&s;ions, that then the Quene to be a&s;&s;ured of the value of the &s;ame Swannes and &s;ignettes,</P>
<P>&para; Item it is ordeyned that yf any per&s;on or per&s;ons wylfully put anye &s;wannes from theyr ne&s;tes, where&s;oeuer they breede, or els take vp &amp; de&s;troy of beare away the egges or egge of the &s;aide &s;wannes, to forfait for euery default &amp; pre&s;ented in the &s;e&s;&s;ions of &s;wannes to the Quenes grace .xiii. s. iiii. d.</P>
<P>&para; Item it is ordeyned that no man &s;hal make &s;ale of no whyte &s;wnnes, nor make delyuery of them wihtout the ma&s;ter of the game or his deputie be pre&s;ent, with .iii. or .vi. &s;wanheardes next adioyning vnder payne of .xl. s. whereof &s;halbe to the fynder .vi. s. viii. d. and the re&s;idue to the Quene.</P>
<P>&para; Item it is ordeyned that no per&s;on or per&s;ons hunt in fene tyme or in any haunt of &s;wannes with dogges, from the fea&s;t of Ea&s;ter to the &s;unday after Trinitie &s;unday, vpon payne for euery tyme &s;o do|yng .vi. s. viii. d.</P>
<P>&para; Item it is ordeyned that yf any per&s;on &s;et any &s;nares or anye maner of inginnes to take Bittors or &s;wannes betwixt the fea&s;t of Ea&s;ter and Lammas, he or they to forfeit for euery tyme &s;o &s;ettyng any &s;uch ingins .vi. s. viii. d.</P>
<P>&para; Item it is ordeyned, that no per&s;on nor per&s;ons &s;hallay no net nor nettes, nor dragge with net nor nets within the common &s;tremes, waters nor mary&s;hes vpon the day tyme, from the fea&s;t of the Inuen|cion of the holy cro&s;&s;e, vnto the fea&s;t of Lammas, vpon payne as often as they be found in fault and pre|&s;ented in the &s;e&s;&s;ions of &s;wannes before the Quenes Iu&s;tices .xx. s. to forfeit to the Quenes grace.</P>
<P>&para; Item it is ordeyned, that euery &s;wanherde intending to kepe any &s;wannes or &s;ignettes, that they &s;hal kepe the~ in a pen or pit within .xx. foote of the co~mon &s;treme, or els within .xx. foote of the Quenes hygh way, &s;o that the Quenes &s;ubiectes pa&s;&s;yng by may haue the &s;yght of the &s;ayde &s;wannes, vppon payne of .xl. s.</P>
<P>&para; Item it is ordeyned, that there &s;halbe no forfeyt of whyte &s;wannes nor grey &s;wannes nor &s;ignets but only to the Quenes grace, a&s;well within the fraunches and liberties as without: and as often as any per&s;on &s;ea&s;e and delyuer the &s;ayde &s;wannes to any other per&s;on, but only to the ma&s;ter of the game or to the Quenes v&s;e, he to forfait to the Quenes grace .vi. s. viii. d.</P>
<P>&para; Ite~ it is ordeyned, that no maner of per&s;on nor per&s;ons &s;hal lay nor &s;et nettes named trameles, nor nettes called drayes, nor dray with no net fro~ the .xvi. day next before the fea&s;t of &s;iant Marke the Euan+geli&s;t, vnto the .xvi. day next en&s;uing the &s;ame fea&s;t. That is to wit, within the co~mon &s;treames, waters, fennes and mar&s;hes in the countie of Lincolne, Northampton, Rutland, Huntyngton, and Cambrige, nor within the Ile of Ely, vpon payne of .xl. s.</P>
<P>&para; Item it is ordeyned, that no man &s;hal take no gray &s;wannes nor white &s;wannes flying-but that he &s;hall within .iii. dayes next after the &s;aid taking, deliuer it or the~ to the ma&s;ter of the Quenes &s;wan|nes or to his deputie to the Quenes v&s;e, and the taker to haue for his takyng .viii. d.</P>
<P>&para; Item it is ordeyned, that no maner of per&s;on of what e&s;tate, degree, or condicion he be, hauing any game of &s;wannes of his owne, &s;halbe no &s;wanheard nor keper of none other mens &s;wannes, vpon pairs of .xl. s.</P>
<P>&para; Item it is ordeyned, that not &s;wanherde nor fi&s;her, nor fowler, &s;hall not vexe nor trouble another &s;wanhearde, fy&s;her nor fowler, by way of action, or otherwy&s;e, but onely afore the Quenes Iu&s;tice of her &s;e&s;&s;ions of &s;wannes, vpon payne of forfaytyng to the Quenes grace .xiii. s. iii. d.</P>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the Quene.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at Lodon in Powles Churchyarde by Rycharde Iugge and Iohn Cawood, Printers to the Quenes Maie&s;tie.</P>
<P><HI>Cum priuilogio Regiae Maie&s;tatis.</HI></P>
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