of whom any have suspicion shall be
arrested and taken to the Sheriff.

No man shall ride with a spear, upon pain of forfeiting it.

No servant of agriculture or laborer shall carry any sword or
dagger, or else forfeit it, except in time of war in defense of
the nation. He may carry bow and arrow [for practice] on Sundays
and holy days, when he should not play games such as tennis,
football, or dice.

No one may enter another's land and tenements by strong hand nor
with a mob, upon pain of imprisonment and ransom at the King's
will.

Charters, releases, obligations, [quitclaim deeds] and other
deeds burnt or destroyed in uprisings shall be reissued without
fee, after trial by the king and his council. Manumissions,
obligations, releases and other bonds and feoffments in land made
by force, coercion or duress during mob uprisings are void.

Men who rape and women consenting after a rape shall lose their
inheritance and dower and joint feoffments. The husbands, or
father or next of kin of such women may sue the rapist by
inquisition, but not by trial by combat. The penalty is loss of
life and member.

The Statute of Laborers of 1351 required all workers, from tailors
to ploughmen, to work only at pre-plague wage rates and forced the
vagrant peasant to work for anyone who claimed him or her. It also
encouraged longer terms of employment as in the past rather than
for a day at a time. Statutory price controls on food limited
profits to reasonable ones according to the distance of the
supply. Later, wages were determined in each county by Justices of
the Peace according to the dearth of victuals while allowing a
victualer a reasonable profit and a penalty was specified as
paying the value of the excess wages given or received for the
first offense, double this for the second offense, and treble this
or forty days imprisonment for the third offense.

A fugitive laborer will be outlawed, and when found, shall be
burnt in the forehead with the letter "F" for falsity.

Children who labored at the plough and cart or other agriculture
shall continue in that labor and may not go into a craft.

A statute of 1363 designed to stop hoarding various types of
merchandise until a type became scarce so to sell it at high
prices, required merchants to deal in only one type of
merchandise. It also required craftsmen to work in only one craft
as before (except women who traditionally did several types of
handiwork). This was re