❧ The effect of certain branches of the Statute made in Anno .xxxiii. Hen. viii. touching the maintenance of artillery, and the punishment of such as use unlawful games, very necessary to be put in execution.  
FIrst, that all fathers, gouernours, and rulers of such as be of tender age, do teach and bring up them in the knowledgee of shooting: And that every man, having a man child or men children in his house, shall provide, ordain, and haue in his house for every man child being of the age of. vii. yeres and above, till he shall come to the age of .xvii. yeres, a bow and two shafts, to induce and learn them and bring them up in shooting, and shall deliver all the same bow and arrows to the same young men to use and occupy: And if the same young men be servants, that then their maisters shall abate the money that they shall pay for the same bows and arrows, of their wages. And after all such young men shall come to the age of .xvii. yeres, every of them shall provide and haue a bow and four arrows, continually for himself at his proper costs and charges, or else of the gift or provision of his friends, and use and occupy the same in shooting, as is before rehearsed. And if the master suffer any of his servants taking wages, being in his household, and under the age of .xvii. yeres, or the father suffer any of his sons being in his household, and under the age of .xvii. yeres, to lack a bow and two arrows, contrary to the form of this statute, by the space of one month together: then the master or father in whom such negligence shalbe, shall for every such default forfeit. vi. s. viii. d. And that every servant passing the age of .xvii. yeres, and under the age of. lr. yeres, and taking wages, which can or is able to shoot, and shall lack a bow and four arrows by the space of one month together, shall for every such default forfeit and lose. vi.s.viii.d.  
Item, that no person by himself, factor, deputy, servant, or other person, shall for his or their gain, lucre, or living, keep, haue, hold, occupy, exercise, or maintain any common House, Alley, or place of Bowling, Coytyng, Cloise, Coiles, half bowl, Tennis, Dising ▪ Table or Carding, or any other maner of game prohibited by any statute heretofore made, or any unlawful new game no we invented or made, or hereafter to be invented, found, had, or made, vpon pain to forfeit and pay for every day keeping, having, maintaining, or suffering any such game to be had, kept, executed, played, or maintained, within any such House, Garden, Alley, or other place, contrary to the form and effect to this statute. xl.s. and the players so taken to pay for every time. vi.s.vii.d.  
Item, that the Iustices of peace, and every Maior, sheriff, bailiff, Constable, or other head officer, haue authority to enter into all places as well within fraunchesis as else where, and the persons offending in any of the premises, to take and put in prison, until such time they put in sureties no more to suffer, occupy, or commit the said offences.  
Item, that the Maior, Sheriffes, bailiffs, Constables, and other head officers within every city, Borough, and town within this realm, where any such officers shall fortune to be, as well within the franchises as without, shall make due search weekly, or at the furthest at all times hereafter once every month, in all places where any such Houses, Alleys, play or plays shal be suspected to be had, kept, and maintained. And if the said Maiors, Sheriffes, bailiffs, Constables, and other head officers, within their Cities, borrows, and towns, as well within fraunchesis as without, do not make due search at the furthest once every month, if the case so require, according to the tenor of this act, and do not execute the same in all things according to the purport and force of the same: that then every such Maior, Sheriffes, bailiffs, Constable, or other head officer, to pay and forfeit for every month not making such search, nor executing the same .xl. s.  
Item, that no artificer or handicraftes man of any occupation, Husbandman, Apprentice, Labourer, servant of husbandry, Iorneyman or servant, or Artificer, mariner, Fissherman, Waterman, or any servingman, may use any unlawful game.  
Item, that all that play at bowls or any other unlawful game in the fields, to lose for every such time. vi.s.viii.d. and to be committed to prison, unto such time they put in sureties no more to use the same.  
Item, this statute to be proclaimed four times every year, and the like to be done in all assizes and sessions, and to continue for ever.  
Memorandum, that there is a proviso in this statute, for all men of worship which may dispend. C.li. yearly and yards, may use these games with discretion at their pleasures.  
GOD save the Queen.   

Imprinted at London in Powles churchyard by richard jug and John Cawood, Printers to the queens majesty.   

Cum privilegio Regiae Maiestatis.