In England, all men over the age of 14 must carry out two hours of longbow practice a day. nd, all men over the age of 14 must carry out two hours of longbow practice a day.
In Chester, Welshmen are banned from entering the city before sunrise and from staying after sunset.
In the city of York, it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow
In Lancashire, no person is permitted after being asked to stop by a constable on the seashore to incite a dog to bark
In London, it is illegal to flag down a taxi if you have the plague
It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament
Ah what a wonderful world we live in
Don't know about the others but the archery bit is no longer true, the requirement was for two hours a week to follow church on Sunday but finally removed from Statute in the 1960 Betting and Gaming Act.
It was repealed under the Betting and Gaming Act as the acts were tied into a raft of Statute which amongst other things banned cricket and made bowls illegal outside your own garden as they detracted from the practice of archery.
One bit of Henry's enabling acts of 1515 which is AFAIK still statute is the requirement for fathers or governors to provide a bow and two arrows to boys aged between 7 and 17, between 17 and 40 men have to have a bow and four arrows of their own in the house. So gentlemen be warned it is a shilling fine for each occasion the magistrate catches you.
OK so I am a sad Toxophilite with an interest in history but at least I won't get fined!!
"Item: Whether the Kinges subjectes, not lame nor having no lawfull impediment, and beinge within the age of XI yeares, excepte Spiritual men, Justices etc. and Barons of the Exchequer, use shoting on longe bowes, and have bowe continually in his house, to use himself and that fathers and governours of chyldren teache them to shote, and that bowes and arrowes be bought for chyldren under XVII and above VII yere, by him that has such a chylde in his house, and the Maister maye stoppe it againe of his wages, and after that age he to provideb them himselfe: and who that is founde in defaute, in not having bowes and arrowes by the space of a moneth, to forfayte xiid.. "
which amongst other things banned cricket and made bowls illegal outside your own garden
That doesn't sound altogether like a bad thing
I rather like the origination story for 10 pin bowling (urban myth or not - it makes a good story)... sometimes attributed to the Puritans settling in the States and outlawing skittles for reasons of, I don't know, folk daring to enjoy themselves or something... and sometimes attributed to skittles (9 pin bowling) being outlawed due to gatherings of people creating a nuisance to general lawmaking and maintaining order (we still do that to this day - think of the so-called "anti-rave" legislation in the 90s causing all sorts of problems with public gatherings - erm Criminal Justice and Public Order Act? Something like that if memory serves me right... added to in 2003 with the Anti-Social Behaviour Act?)...
Adding a pin to the mix meant they could get round the law. 10 pin bowling was born Everybody loves a loophole.
Even better while football or to be more accuracte "futbolle" was not banned it was to be officially discouraged as it was deemed to "entice vile and loutish behavior" Some things never change.
Actually Henry VIII was a pretty smart cookie, trying to rid the land of cricket, bowls and football he also sponsored the idea of the 'quickie' divorce, two seconds with an axe and it's all over with no arguments about money or who keeps which bits of furniture!!!!!
Wanna
If i rely on my profile pic alone my karma count wud be minus lol
ssshhh i can nick the apples from neighbours tree (note to self - rem to wear black this time not day glow pink whilst scrumping!!1)
In Scotland a man may beat his wife as long as the stick he uses is no thicker than his thumb
Children have a legal obligation to support their parents in old age
Its illegal to buy a bible on a sunday
and i believe it was King Malcolm who banned football as men were not practising their battle skills enough
The earliest citation comes from Sir William Hope’s The Compleat Fencing-Master, second edition, 1692, page 157: "What he doth, he doth by rule of thumb, and not by art."The term is thought to originate with wood workers who used the length
of their thumbs rather than rulers for measuring things, cementing its
modern use as an imprecise yet reliable and convenient standard.
Jackie (or should it be BJ?) apples are crossbow territory, a fiendish contraption originally under Papal ban, you could be excommunicated for using them against Christians but ok for heathens, oh those were the good old non PC days.
Given the amount of practice I get these days a safe range for William Tell with a longbow would be about four foot. This is bad news for you as again under Henrys rules as an experienced Archer over the age of 24 I am forced to shoot at a range of "not less than 11 score of yards".
The good bit is that I'm safe as technically Henry's "Kings Pardon" still applies which means I can't be prosecuted for accidentally shooting someone with a bow and arrow as long as it happens at an established archery butt.
Should I mail you the list of GNAS archery clubs (established butts) in Brum so you can pick a venue?
If a Taxi driver leaves his cab in a taxi tank and goes into a shop for example the offence is "leaving the horses unattended" that gets presented to the court under the 18 somthing hackney carrage act. Hackney cab drivers are actually still required to cayy a bail of hay and a bucket of water.
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