 | 1839 - 742 pages
...made these swans its peculiar care. By an act of Edward IV. it was declared a felony, punishable with imprisonment for a year and a day, and a fine at the king's will, to steal their eggs. A curious custom at one time existed with regard to the stealing of these birds,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1839 - 708 pages
...made these swans its peculiar care. By an act of Edward IV. it was declared a felony, punishable with imprisonment for a year and a day, and a fine at the king's will, to steal their eggs. A curious custom at one time existed with regard to the stealing of these birds,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1840 - 426 pages
...swans its peculiar care. By an act of Edward the Fourth, it was declared a felony, punishable with imprisonment for a year and a day, and a fine at the King's will, to steal their eggs ; and at this time, and so late as during Hentzner's visit to England, in the reign... | |
 | 1841 - 276 pages
...act of parliament passed in the reign of Edward the Fourth, it was declared a felony, punishable with imprisonment for a year and a day, and a fine at the king's pleasure, to steal the swans' eggs. Coke mentions a curious law which was once in operation, for the... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1842 - 782 pages
...made felony to steal a hawk ; to take its eggs, even in a person's own ground, was punishable with imprisonment for a year and a day, and a fine at the king's pleasure. In the reign of James I., Sir Thomas Monson is said to have given one thousand pounds for... | |
 | 1842 - 740 pages
...made felony to steal a hawk ; to take its eggs, even in a person's own ground, was punishable with imprisonment for a year and a day, and a fine at the king's pleasure. In the reign of James L, Sir Thomas Monson is said to have given one thousand pounds for... | |
 | William Goodman - 1844 - 378 pages
...of the king, unless possessed of five marks per 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... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...parliaments. According to an act passed in the reign of Edward IV. it was declared felony, punishable with imprisonment for a year and a day, and a fine at the king's pleasnrc, to steal its eggs ; and more anciently still, usage makes the person who might steal a swan... | |
 | William Goodman - 1847 - 376 pages
...of the king, unless possessed of five marks per 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... | |
 | Society of Antiquaries of London - 1847 - 554 pages
...Regis. By stat. 11 Henry VII. ch. 17, he who stole the eggs of swans out of the nest was punishable by imprisonment for a year and a day, and a fine at the will of the King, one half to the King, and the other to the owner of the land where the eggs were... | |
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Swans were formerly held in such great esteem in England, that, by an act of Edward the Fourth, none, except the son of the king, was permitted to keep a Swan, unless possessed of a freehold to the value of five marks a year. 
