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<HEAD>&para; This is the ordinance for the con&s;eruation and keping of the Queenes Maie&s;ties &s;wannes and &s;ygnettes, and of the Lordes &s;pirituall and temporall, and of her Commons <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> the Counties of Lincolne, Northampton, Rutland, Huntington, and Cambridge, and the liberties <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> fr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">chy&s;e of the &s;ame; And for the con&s;eruation of fy&s;he and fowle, with the a&s;&s;i&s;ting of all <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ner of nettes within the &s;ayde Counties and liberties of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_FIRST</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;hall go on marking without the ma&s;ter of the Quenes game of Swannes or his deputie bee pre&s;ent, with vi. or iiii. of the company of Swanheardes, vpon paine to forfeyte to the Quenes grace. xl. s.</P>
<P>&para; Item it is ordeyned, that no per&s;on take vp no &s;ignet nor &s;ignets vnmarked, nor make no &s;ale of them. <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">the Quenes Swanherde or his deputie with. iiii. other Swanherdes next adioyning be pre&s;ent or h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> knowledge of the &s;ame, vpon payne to forfeyt to the Quenes grace. xl. s.</P>
<P>&middot; Item it is ordeined that the Swanherde of the duchy of Lanca&s;ter within the &s;aid counties, nor with|in the lib<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rt<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">es and fraunches of the &s;ame, nor no other per&s;on for him nor by him, &s;hal make no &s;ale nor <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Swannes, nor marke them within the &s;aid duchy, without the Quenes Swanherde or his deputie <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> pre&s;ent vpon payne to forfeyt to the Quenes grace. xl. s. And in like wi&s;e it is ordeyned that <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Quenes Swanherde of the fore&s;aid counties nor his deputie, &s;hall not enter into the &s;aid duchy to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> any Swannes or &s;ignets, nor them to marke without the Swanherde of the duchy be pre&s;ent, then paine to forfeyte to the Quenes grace. xl. s.</P>
<P>&middot; Item it is ordeined, that if any Swannes or &s;ignets be found without the &s;aid duchy double marked or put out of right marke, that then it &s;hall be &s;ea&s;ed for the Quene, and to be delyuered to the mai&s;ter of the Quenes game of Swannes or to his deputie, and &s;o to remayne to it be proued by. iiii. or vi. &s;uffi|cient Swanherdes, to whom the &s;ayd Swannes 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 <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> to be kept within the countie, where as it &s;hall hap the &s;aid Swans or &s;ignets to be &s;ea&s;ed and deliue|red in fourme afore&s;aid. And yf &s;o be the property of the &s;ame Swannes or &s;ignets can not be knowen 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 Swannes from theyr ne&s;tes. where&s;oeuer they breede, or els take vp &amp; de&s;troy or beare away the egges or egge of the &s;aide Swannes, to for&s;ait for euery default &amp; pre&s;ented in the &s;e&s;&s;ions of Swannes to the Quenes grace. xiii.s. iiii.d.</P>
<P>&para; Item it is ordeyned that no man &s;hall make &s;ale of no whyte &s;wannes, nor make delyuery of them without the ma&s;ter of the game or his deputie be pre&s;ent, with iii. o vi. &s;wanheardes next adioyning vn|der payne of xl. s. wherof &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 Swannes with dogges, from the fea&s;t of Ea&s;ter to the &s;unday after Triuitie &s;unday, vpon payne for euery tyme &s;o doyng. vi.s. viii. d.</P>
<P>&para; Item it is ordeyned that yf any per&s;on &s;et any &s;nares or anye manner of inginnes to take Bittors or Swannes betwixt the fea&s;t of Ea&s;ter and Lammas, he or they to forfeit for euery tyme &s;o &s;etting 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;hall lay no net nor nettes, or 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|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ion 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 Queenes grace.</P>
<P>&para; Item it is ordeyned, that euery &s;wanherde intending to keepe any &s;wannes or &s;ignettes, that they <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">l keepe them in a pen or pit within. xx. foote of the co~mon &s;treme, or els within xx. foote of the Quenes <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">gh way, &s;o that the Quenes &s;ubiectes pa&s;&s;yng by may haue the &s;yght of the &s;ayde &s;wannes, vpon payne <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> xl. s.</P>
<P>&para; Item it is ordeyned, that there &s;halbe nor forfeyt of whyte &s;wannes nor grey &s;wannes no &s;ignets but <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> to the Quenes grace. a&s;well within the fraunches and liberties as without: and as often as any <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> &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; Item it is ordeyned, that no maner of per&s;on nor per&s;ons &s;hal lay nor &s;et nettes named tramels, nor n<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ttes called drayes, nor dray with no net from the xvi. day next before the fea&s;t of &s;aint Marke the Euan|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">li&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;tremes, waters, &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3+ letters">es and mar&s;hes in the countie of Lincolne, Northampton, Rutland, Huntyngton, and Cambridge, no<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> 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 iiii. dayes next after the &s;ayd taking, deliuer it or them to the ma&s;ter of the Quenes &s;wannes <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> to his deputie to the Quenes v&s;e, and the taker to huaue 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 be be, hauing any game of &s;wannes of his owne, &s;halbe no &s;wanheard nor keper of none other mens &s;wannes, vpon payne <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> xl. s.</P>
<P>&para; Item it is ordeyned, that no &s;wanherde nor fi&s;her, nor fowler, &s;hall not vexe nor trouble another <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters">nherde, fy&s;her nor fowler, by way of action, or otherwy&s;e, but onely afore the Quenes Iu&s;tices of her &s;e&s;&s;ions of &s;wannes, vpon payne of forfaiting to the Quenes grace. xiii.s. iiii.d.</P>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the Queene.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London in Powles Churchyarde by Rycharde Iugge and Iohn Cawood, Printers to the Quenes, Maie&s;tie.</P>
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<P>Cum priuilegio Regiae Maie&s;tatis.</P>
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