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Game Certificates 1815. Printed notice headed 'No. 1. Game Certificates. To be affixed on Church or Chapel Doors &c. Duties on Game Certificates.'

réf. 19363 — Circa 1814 the certificates being 'for the Year commencing the 5th of April 1815' following 'an Act passed in the 54th Year of the Reign of His present Majesty'. Benjamin Wright and Co. Printers 31 Little Queen-street Holborn London. Crisply printed with the long s on one side of a piece of 37.5 x 25 cm. thick laid paper. In fair condition aged and worn having been used to wrap up items and with the following in manuscript on reverse: 'No. 1. Vouchers recd. of Mr. Gabell'. The text begins: 'Notice is hereby given that by the Acts of 48 Geo. III. Cap. 55. and 52 Geo. III. Cap. 93. every Person who intends to use or shall use any Dog Gun Net or other Engine for the Purpose of taking or killing any Game whatever or any Woodcock Snipe Quail or Landrail or any Conies or shall take or kill or shall assist in the taking or killing any Game or any Woodcock Snipe Quail or Landrail or any Conies must before he shall so take or kill or assist in the taking or killing the same subject to the Provisions in an Act passed in the 54th Year of the Reign of His present Majesty Cap. 141 annually pay the Duties imposed by the said Acts to one of the Collectors of the Assessed Taxes for the Parish in which he resides who will give a printed Receipt for the same which Receipt is to be exchanged for a Certificate to be signed by the Clerk to the Commissioners for the District.' A space has been left blank for the details of 'the Clerk to the Commissioners of this District'. Details of the duties in four instances are given. From the papers of the Harington baronets of Ridlington. Circa 1814 (the certificates being 'for the Year commencing the 5th of April 1815', following 'an Act passed in the 54th Year of unknown