Like for taking Hyrons. Like for hunting in Forests. Like for the Lieutenant Captain or his Deputy, to shew unto them the Cause of their coming into the Countrey; and if they do come in at one Tide and go out at the other; otherwise you shall, by virtue of your Oathes, present them. 7. Alsoe, you shall enquire whether there be any Manner of Person or Persons that go into the Houghes where the Hyrons do Breed, to take old Hyron or young, or Hyrons Eggs out of the Nests; if there be any such Person or Persons, you shall, by virtue of your Oath, present them. 8. Also, you shall enquire if there be any Manner of Person or Persons that goeth by Day or Night with his Bow or Arrowe to the King's Forrest, or with his Hounds or Greyhounds, to kill the Lord his Game; if there be any such, you shall, by virtue of your Oath, present them.1 9. Also, you shall enquire if there be any Person or firing Gorse. Persons set Fire upon any Ling, Gorse, or Turff, within the King's Forrest, either by Day or by Night; if there be any such, you shall, by virtue of your Oathes, present Like for leaving Fences open. Like for taking Lord's Wrecks. Presentment bouring a Felon. them. 10. Also, you shall enquire if there be any Manner of Person or Persons that leave their Fell Ditch or Lidgates open, and going unto the Forrest or Lidgate open unto the Lowlands, which may be hurtful unto their Neighbour; if there be any such, you shall, by virtue of your Oath, present them. 11. Also, you shall enquire if there be any Person or Persons that take up my Lord his Wreck or Flotes further than from the Low-water Markes, till above the full Sea, without the Coroner or Lockman with two Witnesses with them to certify the Truth; if there be any such, by virtue of your Oath, you shall present them. 12. Also, you shall enquire if there be any common for the har- Thief that committeth Fellony dwelling upon the South Side of the Country, and be received or receipted by any Man dwelling upon the North Side of the Country; if there be any such, by virtue of your Oathes, you shall present them. Horses. Like for eased Horses. 13. Also, you shall enquire if there be any Manner of Person or Persons that keepeth any stoned Horse, except he be worth vjs. viijd.; if there be any such, you shall, by virtue of your Oathes, present them. 14. Also, you shall enquire if there be any Manner of keeping dis- Person or Persons that keep any scabbed Horse or Mayre, and if there be any such, the Coroner ought to bring them to the next Hough, and to cast them down there; and whosoever oweth any such Goodes to be put in iijs. iiijd. 1 Forest disafforested by The Isle of Man Disafforesting Act of 1860. Fine and the Coroner to have xijd. for his Paines; and if he do know them, and do not his Duty, he ought to be put in 38. 4d. Fine himself for neglecting his Duty; and if there be any such, by virtue of your Oath, you shall present them. Here endes the Charge. 15. Alsoe we give for Law, that if any Man take a Woman by Constraint, or force Rape. her against her Will, if she be a Wife, he must suffer the Law for her; if she be a Maid or single Woman, the Deemster shall give her a Rope, a Sword, and a Ring, and then shall have her Choice to hang him with the Rope, cut off his Head with the Sword, or marry him with the Ring.1 two years 16. Alsoe we give for Law, that if a Man get a Maid or Children young Woman with Child before Marriage, and within a legitimate, if Year or two after doth marry her, if she was never slan- born within dered nor defamed with any other Man before, that Child before marbegotten before Marriage shall have his Father's Corbe and riage. his Farme according to the Custom of this Isle. 17. Alsoe we give for Law, that if any of the Lord his Servants. Tennants be destitute of Servants, and come and make his Complaint to the Deemster, that he can get none to occupy my Lord his Land withall, then the Deemster is to send to the Coroner and to the Lockman of every Parish, and then to swear four honest Men in every Parish to enquire first of vagrant Servants, and to serve the greatest Rent first, and then every Man according to his Rent; and if there be no such Servants, and if such need be, then he that beareth 5s. Rent unto my Lord is to serve him that beareth 10s. Rent, rather than the Lord his Land fall to Decay. 18. Also we give for Law, that no Officer may imprison Imprisonany Man for Debt, nor any other Cryme, but as the Deem- ment under ster shall appoint by Law and Process. Deemsters process. 19. Also we give for Law, that whosoever disobeyeth Fine for disthe Coroner during the Time he carryeth the Rodd, shall obedience of forfeit lxs. to my Lord; and whosoever disobeyeth the Coroner. Moare or Serjeant shall forfeit vjs. viijd. being lawfully charged. From Exchequer Book, 1583. No. 4. Whereupon spetiall Regard of sundry Complaints made Preamble. by divers the Inhabitants of this Isle, and avoiding of sundry other Inconveniences ensuing, or hereafter might ensue, 1 Repealed by Criminal Code 1817, Sec. 9. being not foreseen and prevented, and specially in regard of the Commonwealth of this Isle in that Behalfe, and the Inhabitants thereof touching sundry Abuses, for want of putting in execution good and laudable Statutes, Laws, Customes, and Orders, heretofore by especiall Providence and Foresight made and ordained, and now for this our especiall Time not only most needful to be revived, remembered, and put in force according to the Meaning of the making of the same, but also some other wholesome Orders answerable to the Time by Consent, to be invented as from Time to Time good Government requireth; the neglecting whereof is not only the Breach and Means whereby good and wholsome Lawes, Statutes, and Orders, rest in Oblivion and Forgetfulness, but also the Commonwealth of this Isle runneth into Ruin, to the great impoverishing and Disquietliness of the Inhabitants thereof, and especially to such honest and discreet Persons as would seek to maintain their honest Estates, if by Occasion of evill-disposed People the were not hindered and letted for want of Redress and Amendment of the said Abuses in Time convenient, and for that such Orders as hereafter shall ensue be at this present chiefly thought most necessary to be put in Execution first. It is, therefore, by good Deliberation and Advice of the Deputie and Councell of the Isle present at this Court of Exchequer, holden at the Holme Town near unto the Peele 29 Oct. 1582. the 29th of October Anno Domini 1582, whose Names be hereafter subscribed, for renewing and reviewing of the said Statutes, ordered, Boundaries. Trespass. 1. That it shall be lawfull from henceforth for every or any inhabitants whatsoever within the Isle of Mann, occupieing any Lands or Tenements within the said Isle to keep the same in all Winter and Summer without Prejudice, Hurt, or Gainsaying of any of his Neighbours, or other Inhabitant, making his Ditches, environing and compassing the said ground in such lawful repair, and so keeping the same from Time to Time as the Course of Law appointeth viz. every Ditch of the Height of four Foot and a Halfe, and in Thickness of a double Ditch, according to the antient and usual Custom of the said Isle.1 2. And further, it is ordered in the said Court by the said Councell, that the Goodes or Cattle of any Person or Persons whatsoever making Trespass to the said Ground, being soe sufficiently ditched and kept in repair as is aforesaid, that then it shall be lawful for the Owner of the 1 Altered as to dimensions of Boundary fences by Act of 1667, Sec. 8, and by Statute of 1691, Chap. 5, Sec. 4. said Ground, or his Servants or Family, or any of them soe finding the said Cattle comitting the said Trespass within the said Ground, to drive, carry, and lead away the said Goodes or Cattle without Hurt or Harme done to the same, to the Lord his Pinfold within the Parish where the Pinfold. same shall be taken, appointed for that purpose, giving the true Owner sufficient Warning of the Impounding of the said Goodes, to the Intent he may relieve the same according to Order of Law, where the said Goodes shall remaine, without taking or carrying away by the said Owner, or any other for him, until such Time as the said Owner have given sufficient Pledge by way of Surety, or otherwise, as the Law appointeth in that Case, to the Keeper and Pinder of the said Pindfold, to make sufficient Amends to the Party grieved according to the Trespass done, or be answerable to the Law in that Case requireing : 3. And further, notwithstanding the said Pledge given, Lord's the said Owner shall pay, before the Departure of the said Poundage. Beast or Cattle to the said Keeper of the said Pinfold, for every Foot an Halfpenny to the Use of the said Lord according to the Order of Law; whereof the said Pinder being sworne, shall make true Accompt in Writing from Time to Time as he shall be called upon for the same. 4. Itm. It is further ordered by the said Councell in Lord's bounthe said Court, that whereas the Right Honourable Henry daries to be Earle of Derby, Lord of this Isle, hath, under his Hand, kept up by neighbouring by the Advise of his Councell in England, and such of the Tenants. Councell of this Isle as were then present, taken Order for the keeping of his Pastures in Severalltie, as by the said Order doth more at large appear; that all and every Person and Persons whosoever, whose Tenements, or any other Part or Parcells of Ground do adjoine, abutt, or be, lying over annends or against the Lord his Pastures or Closes, or any of them, within this Isle, shall make the Ditch and Ditches of the said Lord his Closes so farr as the said several Grounds shall extend, of their own proper Costs and Charges, of the lawfull Height and Breadth before specified, and the same shall uphold, maintaine, and keep in sufficient Repair from Time to Time, Winter and Sommer, upon pain to forfeit for every Time that the said Keeper or Keepers of the said Closes shall make true Presentment of the Default in any Court, by his solemn Oath taken upon a Book, that the said Ditches be not made and repaired according to the Limitation before specified, and in whose Default the same is, the Sum of iijs. iiijd. to be levied to the Lord his Use, the said Ditches to be made before the Fine for riding or abusing neighbour's horses or cattle. to Lord. Feast of the Purification of our Blessed Lady next ensueing the Date hereof. 5. Itm. Whereas divers and sundry Complaints hath from Time to Time been made, that divers and sundry Inhabitants, being evill-disposed Persons, have, and daily doe abuse the Goodes and Cattle of their Neighbours in riding, labouring, or working them without Lycence of the true Owner, nothing regarding the Hurt that thereby may ensue to the said Owner if the said Goodes shall quayle, but maintaining themselves and the noughty Fact by an unlawful Use and inordinate Custome, worthy to be abollished and not remembered amongst civill People where Friendship and other good Government is to be imbraced: It is therefore by especial Consideracion in that Case ordered in the said Court by the said Councell, that no Person or Persons within the said Isle, of what Degree, Estate, or Condicion soever he or they be, shall after this present Court holden, take any the Goodes or Cattle of his Neighbours, or the Goodes or the Cattle of any other Man, and ride, draw, work, labour, or otherwise employ the same to his own Pleasure or Benefitt, altho' he take the same Goodes trespassing within his Ground, upon pain of forfeit to the Lord his Use for every Time so doing and offending, being duly convicted by Information, Accion, Plaint, or otherwise, by the Averrment of two sufficient Witnesses, upon their Oathes, testifyed the said Disorder and Abuse, the Sum of three Shillings and four Pence, and otherwise to make Amends to the Party grieved, as the Extremitie of Law will awarde. Landholders 6. Itm. Whereas diverse and sundry the Inhabitants of this Isle, contrary to a good and laudable Order, and diverse and sundrie general Restraints made, not regarding Tenants only their Duty, have, and daily do, notwithstanding the said Restrainte, buy, sell, give, grant, chap, and exchange their Farmes, Lands, Tenements, Cottages, Milns, Intackes, and other Landes whatsoever in their Holdings, at their Liberties and Pleasures, without the especiall Lycence of the Lord or his Councell of the said Isle; whereupon, and by Means whereof, diverse great Inconveniences have and do arise daily, as by the Sequele thereof appeareth, as well between Party and Party, as also to the Lord himself, making, as it were, common Merchandize of his said Lands, being but Tennants thereunto, whereby the Lord his Rents, Duties, and Customes cannott be soe well gotten, nor the antient Tennant known, but the Lord his Lands dispersed into so many severall Men's Occu pations, without Knowledge given thereof, soe that the Setting Booke of Recordes are in Effect made void, by reason that the same Men, whose Names are of Record in the said Bookes, do not occupy the same Lands: It is likewise ordered in the said Court, by the said Councell, that no Person or Persons whatsoever within the said Lands not to Isle shall, after the said Court holden this present Day above specified, give, grant, be alienated bargain, sett, sell, or exchange any Part or Parcel of the Farm, Land, Cottages, Intackes, without or Milnes, to any Person or Persons whatsoever within the said Isle, without the especialĺ Lycence of the Lord or his Councell in the said Isle for the Time being, or three of licence. them at the least, whereof the Lieutenant Captaine or Deputy to be one, and the Receiver and Comptroller to be the other two, the said Lycence to be made by the Clerk of the Rolls, and given under the Hand of the said Councell, or the said three of them above specifyed, upon Pain of Forfeiture to the Use of the Lord, by and of either of the said Parties soe buying, selling, giving, granting, chaping, or exchanging together any of the said Premises, the several Sums of iijl. of good and lawfull Money of England, to be |