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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Plaie forbid|den.2. That no man should plaie at anie game within the armie for monie, except knights and chapleins, the which should not loose in one daie and night aboue 20 shillings, they to forfeit an 100 shillings so oft as they lost aboue that summe: the persons aforenamed to haue the same distributed as afore is said. The two kings might plaie, and command their seruants in their presence likewise to plaie, so that they exceede not the summe of 20 shillings. And also the seruants of archbishops, bishops, earles and barons, by their maisters commandement might play, not exceeding that summe: but if anie seruants or mariners, or other of like degree, were found to play without licence, the seruants should be whipped naked three daies round about the campe, except they ransomed foorth themselues, at the pleasure of the persons abour named: and the mariners should be plunged ouer head and eares in the sea three mornings togither, after the vse of seamen, except they redeemed that punishment, at the discretion likewise of the said persons: and those of other like meane degrees being neither knights nor chapleins should be punished as seruants.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 3. That if anie pilgrime borrowed anie thing of an other whilest he was on his iournie, Borrowing. he should be bound to paie it: but if he borrowed it before his setting foorth, he was not bound to answer it till his returne home.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 4. That if anie mariner or seruant, Souldiers or mariners de|parting from their masters.reteined in wages with anie man in this iournie, departed from his master without licence, no other person might receiue him, and if he did, he should be punished at the discretion of the forenamed persons.

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