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Section III Gamekeepers authorized by 22 & 23 Car. II. c. 25. § 2. may oppose Persons in the Night.

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And to the end all Keepers and Gamekeepers mentioned in and duely authorized according to the Act made in the Reigne of the late King Charles the Second may be indempnified in the execuc[i]on of the said Office be it enacted that all Lords of Man[n]ors or other Royalties or any person or persons authorized by them as Game-keepers shall and may within their respective Man[n]ors or Royalties oppose and resist such Offender in the night time in the same manner and be equally indempnifyed for soe doeing as if such fact had been co[m]mitted within any ancient Chase Parke or Warren inclosed whatsoever.