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Subject: | Prohibition of fencing |
Original source: | Corporation of London Records Office, Liber Custumarum, f.217 |
Transcription in: | Henry Thomas Riley, ed. Liber Custumarum, Rolls Series, no.12, vol.2 (1860), 282-283. |
Original language: | French |
Location: | London |
Date: | late 13th or early 14th century |
TRANSLATION
Concerning those who delight in mischief, proceed to learn in the city how to fence with the buckler, by night and by day, and consequently are emboldened to do wrong: it is decided that no-one within the city is to hold a school nor take lessons in fencing with the buckler, by night or by day. Anyone so doing is to be imprisoned for 40 days. He [i.e. an instructor] is not to take an apprentice by day, unless he is a man of good reputation and known [character]; if he is convicted of doing so, he is to receive the same punishment. |
Created: August 18, 2001. Last update: November 27, 2002 | © Stephen Alsford, 2001-2003 |
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