CURIOUS ANCIENT STATUTES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1376, 21 October 1886, Page 2

CURIOUS ANCIENT STATUTES.

, If any alehouse-keeper shall sell less than a full quart for a penny, or of the small ale two quarts for one penny, ha shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of 20a— ‘ Ist James 1., chap. 9.’ The king commandeth that from henceforth neither fairs nor markets be kept in churchyards, for the honor of the Church. —‘ 13th Edward I , stat 2, chap 6.’ All persons above the age of seven years shall wear upon Sabbath and Holydays, upon their heads, a cap of wool, knit, thlcked, and dressed In England, upon pain to forfeit for every day not wearing. 3s 4i —* 13th Elizabeth, chap 19/ Whosoever shall by preaching, teaching, writing, or open speech notify that eating fish, or forbearing of flesh, la of any necessity for saving the soul of man be punished, as spreaders of falsa news are, and ought to be.— ‘ sth Elisabeth, chap 5, sec 40.’ No person shall put to sale any pins, bat only such as shall be double-headed, and have their heads soldered fast to the shank, and well smoothed, the shank well shaven, the point well and round filed and sharpened.—34th and 36th Henry Till, chap 6.* And tt is ordained and enacted that no manner of person under the estate of • lord shall wear any gown or man tell unless it bee of such length, that hee being upright, it shall cover hie buttocks upon pain of forfeit 20s.— ‘ 22ad Edward IV. c. I.’