WHereas Provision is made by the Statutes of this Realme for the perservation of Game in this Kingdome, and that the Justices of the Peace, and others are by the said Statutes authorized, and required to punish the Offenders in that kinde as by the said Statutes doth appeare. But by reason of the great liberty that severall idle and loose persons at this time take unto themselves by Guns, trasing of Hares in the Snow, setting Doggs, and other unlawfull meanes to kill and destroy the Game of all kindes throughout the whole Kingdome, in contempt of Law and Authority, which if not timely prevented will prove a destruction to the said Game in all parts. It is Ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled, That the Justices of the Peace in the severall Counties of the Kingdome, and especially about the Kings Honours, Castles, Parkes, Chases, and Houses, are hereby charged and required by vertue of their places, and the tenour of the said Statutes, to take speciall care that they put the said Statutes in due execution against all such Offenders, as shall trespasse in this kinde according to the nature of their severall Offences: And herein the said Justices of Peace, and others authorized, are hereby required to take speciall care in the execution of the Premisses, as the contrary will be answered to this House.