 | William Goodman - 1847 - 376 pages
...annum in land was permitted to keep one. By a later act, the punishment for taking their eggs, was imprisonment for a year and a day, and a fine at the king's discretion. The swans belonging to these companies are marked different to the royal swans ; hence... | |
 | James Joseph Nolan - 1850 - 208 pages
...from the same nest, and sitting by turns, without quarrelling. The penalty for taking their eggs is imprisonment for a year and a day, and a fine at the King's will. They occasionally carry the young ones from the nest on their back, and by permitting them to... | |
 | James Joseph Nolan - 1850 - 198 pages
...from the same nest, and sitting by turns, without quarrelling. The penalty for taking their eggs is imprisonment for a year and a day, and a fine at the King's will. They occasionally carry the young ones from the nest on their back, and by permitting them to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 pages
...unless possessed of five marks aycar. By a subsequent act, the punishment for taking their eggs was imprisonment for a year and a day, and a fine at the king's will. At present, they are but little valued for the delicacy of their flesh ; but many are still preserved... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 478 pages
...and by a subsequent act, taking their eggs, in like manner as those of the hawk, was punished with imprisonment for a year and a day, and a fine at the king's will. In Coke's Reports, part 7th, in the case of swans, it is remarked, " that he who stealeth a swan... | |
 | William Pulleyn - 1853 - 474 pages
...and by a subsequent act, taking their eggs, in like manner as those of the hawk, was punished with imprisonment for a year and a day, and a fine at the king's will. In Coke's Reports, part 7th, in the case of swans, it is remarked, " that he who stealeth a swan... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 1254 pages
...unless possessed of five marks a year. By a subsequent act, the punishment for taking their eggs was imprisonment for a year and a day, and a fine at the king's will. be deemed impossible, little did they imagine that in these latter days a region would be discovered,... | |
 | Francis Channing Woodworth - 1854 - 346 pages
...unless possessed of five marks a year. By a subsequent act, the punishment for taking their eggs was imprisonment for a year and a day, and a fine at the king's will. At present swans are little valued for the delicacy of their flesh, but many are still preserved... | |
 | 1857 - 474 pages
...and a person who took a Hawk's eggs even on his own land, was punishable by imprisonment for a yeai and a day, and a fine at the king's pleasure. The...slight degree, lately renewed the sport of Hawking. The Jer-Faicon, the Lanner, the Kestrel, the Merlin, the Hobby, &c. were used in falconry. Of these, the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 pages
...unless possessed of five marks a year. By a subsequent act, the punishment for taking their eggs was imprisonment for a year and a day, and a fine at the king's will. At present, they are but little valued for the delicacy of their flesh ; but many are still preserved... | |
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By a subsequent act, the punishment for taking their eggs was imprisonment for a year and a day, and a fine at the king's will. 
