¶ This is the ordinance for the conservation and keeping of the queens majesties swans and signets, and of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and of her Commons within the Counties of Lincoln, Forthampton, Rutland, Huntyngton, and Cambridge, and the liberties & franchise of the same: And for the conservation of fish and soul, with the assissing of all manner of nets within the said Counties and liberties of the same.  
first it is ordained and statuted, that every person having any Swans, shall begin yearly to mark or cause to be marked the same upon the Monday next after Trinity Sunday, & no person afore, but after as the company may, so that the Master of the queens game of Swans or his deputies be there present, and if any person or persons take upon him or them in marking to the contrary, to forfeit to the Queen xl s.  
¶ Item it is ordained, that no person nor persons being Swanheards nor other, shall go on marking without the master of the queens game of Swans or his deputy be present,  vi or iii of the company of Swanheardes, upon pain to forfeit to the queens grace xl s.  
¶ Item it is ordained, that no person take up no signet nor signets unmarked, nor make no sale of them, but if the queens Swanherde or his deputy with iii other Swanherdes next adjoining be present or have knowledge of the same, upon pain to forfeit to the queens grace xl s.  
✚ Item it is ordained that the Swanherde of the duchy of Lancaster within the said counties, nor within the liberties and frasiches of the same, nor no other person for him nor by him, shall make no sale nor take up no Swans, nor mark them within the said duchy, without the queens Swanherde or his deputy be present, upon pain to forfeit to the queens grace xl s. And in like wise it is ordained that the queens Swanherde of the foresaid counties nor his deputy, shall not enter into the said duchy to take up any Swans or signets, nor them to mark without the Swanherde of the duchy be present, upon pain to forfeit to the queens grace xl s.  
✚ Item it is ordained, that if any Swans or signets be found without the said duchy double marked or put out or right mark, that then it shallbe seized for the Queen, and to be delivered to the master of the queens game of Swans or to his deputy, and so to remain to it be proved by four or vi sufficient Swanherdes, to whom the said swans or signets belong or appertain, so that the knowledge of the same be had by the said Swanherds' after the said delivery afore the sessions of Swans than next to be kept within the county, where as it shall ha● the said Swans or signets to be seized and delivered in form aforesaid. And if so be the property of the same Swans or signets can not be knowē by the said sessions, that then the Queen to be assured of the value of the same Swans and cygnets,  
¶ Item it is ordained that if any person or persons wilfully put any swans from their nests, wheresoever they breed, or else take up & destroy of bear away the eggs or egg of the said swans, to forfeit for every default & presented in the sessions of swans to the queens grace xiii s. iiii. d.  
¶ Item it is ordained that no man shall make sale of no white swnnes, nor make delivery of them wihtout the master of the game or his deputy be present, with iii or vi swanheardes next adjoining under pain of xl s. whereof shallbe to the finder vi s. viii. d. and the residue to the Queen.  
¶ Item it is ordained that no person or persons hunt in fain time or in any haunt of swans with dogs, from the feast of Easter to the sunday after Trinity sunday, upon pain for every time so doing vi s. viii. d.  
¶ Item it is ordained that if any person set any snares or any manner of inginnes to take Bittors or swans betwixt the feast of Easter and Lammas, he or they to forfeit for every time so setting any such engines vi s. viii. d.  
¶ Item it is ordained, that no person nor persons shallay no net nor nets, nor drag with net nor nets within the common streams, waters nor marshes upon the day time, from the feast of the Invention of the holy cross, unto the feast of Lammas, upon pain as often as they be found in fault and presented in the sessions of swans before the queens justices twenty s. to forfeit to the queens grace.  
¶ Item it is ordained, that every swanherde intending to keep any swans or cygnets, that they shall keep them in a pen or pit within twenty foot of the common stream, or else within twenty foot of the queens high way, so that the queens subjects passing by may have the sight of the said swans, upon pain of xl s.  
¶ Item it is ordained, that there shallbe no forfeit of white swans nor grey swans nor signets but only to the queens grace, aswell within the franchises and liberties as without: and as often as any person seize and deliver the said swans to any other person, but only to the master of the game or to the queens use, he to forfeit to the queens grace vi s. viii. d.  
¶ Iten it is ordained, that no manner of person nor persons shall lay nor set nets named trameles, nor nets called drayes, nor dray with no net from the xvi day next before the feast of siant Mark the Evangelist, unto the xvi day next ensuing the same feast. That is to wit, within the common streams, waters, fens and marshes in the county of Lincoln, Northampton, Rutland, Huntyngton, and Cambrige, nor within the isle of Ely, upon pain of xl s.  
¶ Item it is ordained, that no man shall take no grey swans nor white swans flying-but that he shall within iii days next after the said taking, deliver it or them to the master of the queens swans or to his deputy to the queens use, and the taker to have for his taking viii d.  
¶ Item it is ordained, that no manner of person of what estate, degree, or condition he be, having any game of swans of his own, shallbe no swanheard nor keeper of none other men's swans, upon pairs of xl s.  
¶ Item it is ordained, that not swanherde nor fisher, nor fowler, shall not vex nor trouble another swanhearde, fisher nor fowler, by way of action, or otherwise, but only afore the queens justice of her sessions of swans, upon pain of forfayting to the queens grace xiii s. three d.  
God save the Queen.   

¶ Imprinted at Lodon in Paul's Churchyard by richard jug and john Cawood, Printers to the queens Majesty.  
Cum privilogio Regiae Maiestatis.