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The Shooter's Guide; Or, Complete Sportsman's Companion Containing a Compendious View of the Game Laws a Description of the Various Kinds of Dogs, with the Best Mode of Breeding, Hearing, and Training Them an Account of the Diseases to Which They A

The Shooter's Guide; Or, Complete Sportsman's Companion Containing a Compendious View of the Game Laws a Description of the Various Kinds of Dogs, with the Best Mode of Breeding, Hearing, and Training Them an Account of the Diseases to Which They A


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: law is not fairly practised; as it awards half the penalty to the informer: the statute does not suffer the informer to be the witness; so, in these cases, the lord's attorney's clerk frequently becomes the informer, pro forma, and thus enables the keeper (the witness), to obtain fifty shillings.?What a temptation to perjury! I shall conclude this article by the following cases, which very well illustrate some points of a gamekeeper's authority, as well as the practice of the courts of law: ? . The following came on before the commissioners of the assessed tax act for the division of St. Allans, in the year 1812. A servant of the Hon. and Rev. W. Capel, vicar of Watford, informed against Hol- lingshead, Carter, and Wilson, three keepers, appointed by the Earl of Essex, for the manors of Watford, Bushy, and Parksbury, charging them with having incurred penalties of 20/. each, for using a gun for the purpose of killing game without having procured such certificate as is directed by the 48th of his present Majesty. The Rev. Mr. Capel was himself the only witness to substantiate the charges, and he swore that he saw Hollingshead, on the 17th of September, shooting on the manor of Watford. On producing the certificate for 1811, it appeared to be granted for the manor of Cashio, although that granted to him in 1810 was for the manor of Watford; and it was contended to be a mere clerical mistake, in inserting the word Cashio instead of Watford. However, the commissioners thought themselves bound to convict. The Rev. Mr. Capel then swore he saw Carter (who was gamekeeper for Bushy), in company with Hollingshead, on the estate of W. Smith, esq. in the manor of Cashio, on the 28th of Sepjember; that he saw both shoot, and one bird fall. Mr. Smith was called on the part of Carter, who ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217612234
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 64
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217612237
  • Publisher Date: 08 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 132 gr


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