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Under this act anyone, who was not a member of the House of Lords, was banned from firing hail-shot, meaning more than one pellet at a time. The prescribed penalty was a £10 fine and 3 months in prison.
In 1592, John Baseden of Tenterden, a miller, was fined under this statute.
The act was repealed by the Militia Act 1694. The preamble in that act said that however useful it might have been back then, it had now fallen into disuse. However it needed repealing, because a number of malicious prosecutions citing this act had been launched of late.
References
- University of Houston O'Quinn Law Library Anglo American Legal Tradition Archive: http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT7/Eliz/KB29no229/aKB29no229fronts/IMG_0028.htm
- British History Online: Militia Act 1694 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol6/p594