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 450 LEGAL HISTORY Cloth- stealers. Rlck- bumers. Thieves. Exporters of wooL PoRchers. Perjurers and forgers. Perjurers. Robbers. Poachers. Exporters of wool. Vafirrants and deserters. Linen- stealers. Ecclesias- tical offenders. Rebels. 3. FersonB found guilty of stealing cloth from the rack, or "im- bezzelling'' his Majesty's stores to the value of 20& 22 Gar. II, & 5. 4. Persons convicted of wilfully burning ricks of com, hay, &a, or bams, &c., in the night-time. 22 and 23 Gar. II, a 7. 5. Persons convicted of hu*ceny and other offences, and entitled to benefit of clergy, except receivers and buyers of stolen goods, transportation for seven years ; felons excluded clergy, and re- ceivers and buyers of stolen goods, fourteen years. 4 Gea I, c. 11 ; 6 Geo. I, c 23. 6. Persons imprisoned for exporting wool, and not paying the sums recovered against them. 4 Geo. I, a 11. 7. Persons convicted of entering into any park and killing or wounding any deer, without the consent of the owner. 5 Geo. I, c. 28. 8. Persons convicted of perjury or forgery, afterwards practising in any Gourt as attorneys, &c.^ might, upon complaint to the Judge thereof in a summary way be transported to the plantations for seven yeara 12 Geo. I, a 29. 9. Persons convicted of perjury or subornation. 2 Geo. II, a 2.'*. 1 0. Persons convicted of assaulting others with offensive weapons and a design to rob. 7 Geeo, II, c. 21. 11. Persons convicted a second time of hunting and taking away deer out of unenclosed forests or chaoes ; or of coming into a forest with an intent to steal deer, and beating and wounding the keepers. 10 Geo. II, c. 32 ; 31 Geo. II, a 42. 12. Persons resisting officers in seizing wool unlawfully ex- ported. 12 Geo. II, c. 21. 13. Vagrants or vagabonds escaping from house of correction, or from service in the Army or Navy. 17 Geo. II, c. 5. 14. Persons convicted of stealing any linen, &a, laid to be printed, bleached, &a — death, or transportation for fourteen years. 18 Geo. II, c. 27. 15. Ministers of the Episcopal Church of Scotland exercising their functions in any Episcopal meeting-house in Scotland, with- out having registered their letters of orders, and taken all oaths required by law, and prayed for his Majesty and the Iloyal Family by name. First offence, six months' imprisonment ; second, transportation for life. 19 Geo. II, a 38. 16. Hebels returning from transportation without license, or voluntarily going into France or Spain — death, without benefit of clergy. 20 Geo. II, c. 46. Digitized by Google