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 546 CRIME 1787 Cutting down river or sea banks. Cutting hop-bind& Setting fire to coal-mines. Taking a reward for helping another to stolen goods, in certain goods. Returning from transportation, or being at large in the kingdom after sentence. Stabbing a person unarmed, or not having a weapon drawn, if he die in six D[K>nthB. Concealing the death of a bastard child. Maliciously maiming or disfiguring any person, lying in wait for the purpose. Sending threatening letters. Kiots by twelve or more, and not dispersing in an honr after proclamation. Being accessories to felonies deemed capital. Stealing woollen cloths from tenter grounds. Stealing from a ship in distresa Government stores, embezzling, burning, or destroying in dock- yards, in certain cases. Challenging jurors above twenty in capital felonies, or standing mute. Cottons,. selling with forged stamps. Deer-stealing, second offence ; or even first offence, under Black Act, not usually enforced. Uttering counterfeit money, third offence. Prisoners under Insolvent Acts guilty of perjury. Destroying silk or velvet in the loom, or the tools for manu- facturing thereof ; or destroying woollen goods, racks, or tools, or entering a house for that purpose. Servants purloining their master's goods, value forty shillings. Personating bail ; or acknowledging fines or judgments in another's name. Escape by breaking prison in certain cases. Attempting to kill Privy Counsellors, &c Sacrilega Smuggling by persons armed, or assembling armed for that purpose. Bobbery of the mail. Destroying turnpikes or bridges, gates, weighing engines, locks, sluices, engines for draining marshes, &c. Mutiny, desertion, &c., by the Martial and statute Law. Soldiers or sailors enlisting into foreign service. Digitized by Google