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La Narrativa de Henry Fielding y la Sociedad Inglesa del Siglo XVIII

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Sending letters<br />

without a name,<br />

&c. and <strong>de</strong>man-<br />

ding money,<br />

&c. felony.<br />

Such persons<br />

when to<br />

surren<strong>de</strong>r them-<br />

selves, &c.<br />

<strong>La</strong> <strong>Narrativa</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>Henry</strong> <strong>Fielding</strong> y <strong>la</strong> <strong>Sociedad</strong> <strong>Inglesa</strong> <strong>de</strong>l <strong>Siglo</strong> <strong>XVIII</strong><br />

which are or shall be inclosed with pales, rails, or other fences, or in<br />

any park, paddock, or grounds inclosed, where <strong>de</strong>er have been or<br />

shall be usually kept; or shall un<strong>la</strong>wfully and maliciously break down<br />

the head or mound of any fish-pond, whereby the fish shall be lost or<br />

<strong>de</strong>stroyed; or shall un<strong>la</strong>wfully and maliciously kill, maim or wound<br />

any, cattle, or cut down or otherwise <strong>de</strong>stroy any trees p<strong>la</strong>nted in any<br />

avenue, or growing in any gar<strong>de</strong>n, orchard or p<strong>la</strong>ntation, for<br />

ornament, shelter or profit; or shall set fire to any house, barn or outhouse,<br />

or to any hovel, cock, mow, or stack of corn, straw, hay or<br />

wood; or shall wilfully and maliciously shoot at any person in any<br />

dwelling-house, or other p<strong>la</strong>ce; or shall knowingly send any letter,<br />

without any name, subscribed thereto, or signed with a fictitious<br />

name, <strong>de</strong>manding money, venison, or other valuable thing; or shall<br />

forcibly rescue any person being <strong>la</strong>wfully in custody of any officer or<br />

other person, for any of the offences before mentioned; or if any<br />

person or persons shall, by gift or promise of money, or other reward,<br />

procure any of his Majesty's subjects to join him or them in any such<br />

un<strong>la</strong>wful act; every person so offending, being thereof <strong>la</strong>wfully<br />

convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall suffer <strong>de</strong>ath in<br />

cases of felony, without benefit of the clergy.<br />

II. And whereas notwithstanding the <strong>la</strong>ws now in force against the illegal<br />

practices above mentioned, and his Majesty’s royal proc<strong>la</strong>mation of the second day<br />

of February which was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and<br />

twenty-two, notifying the same, many wicked and evil-disposed persons have, in<br />

open <strong>de</strong>fiance thereof, been guilty of several of the offences before mentioned, to the<br />

great disturbance of the publick peace, and damage of divers of his Majesty’s good<br />

subjects; It is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all and<br />

every person and persons, who since the second day of February in the<br />

year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twenty-two, have<br />

committed or been guilty of any of the offences aforesaid, who shall<br />

not surren<strong>de</strong>r him, her or themselves, before the twenty-fourth day of<br />

July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twenty<br />

three, to any of the justices of his Majesty’s court of king’s bench, or<br />

to any one of his Majesty’s justices of the peace, in and for the county<br />

where he, she or they did commit such offence or offences, and<br />

voluntarily make a full confession thereof to such justice, and a true<br />

discovery upon his or her or their oath or oaths, of the persons who<br />

where his her or their accomplices in any of the said offences, by<br />

giving a true account of their names, occupations and p<strong>la</strong>ces of<br />

abo<strong>de</strong>, and to the best of his, her or their knowledge or believe,<br />

discover where they may be found, in or<strong>de</strong>r to be brought to justice,<br />

being thereof <strong>la</strong>wfully convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of felony<br />

and shall suffer <strong>de</strong>ath as in cases of felony, without benefit of the<br />

clergy.<br />

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