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Our sovereign lady, with advice and consent of the estates of parliament, do hereby prohibite and discharge all butchers or fleshers to take, brook or possess, either by themselves or any others for their use and behoove, directly or indirectly, any parks, inclosures or any other lands whatsoever less or more exceeding one acre, under the penalty of ane hundred pounds Scots for each time they contraveen, and alse to forfeit the whole nolt and sheep that shall be found in the said parks, inclosures and graseings belonging to them, the one half thereof to be imployed for her majesties' use and the other half to the informer. And farder, do hereby declare the contraveener to lose his freedom as an burgess in all the burghs of this kingdom. And likewayes, declares all tacks already made or to be made with any butcher or flesher or for their behove anent the sett or farm of all parks, inclosures and other lands whatsoever exceeding an acre to each butcher or flesher (unless the same be tilled and sowen with corn yearly) to terminat and be void and null after the term of Whitsunday next to come. And farder, her majestie, with advice and consent foresaid, statutes and ordains that it shall be leisum to all persons whatsoever to sell and break all sorts of fleshes on every lawful day of the week, and that in all the burghs and touns of this kingdom free of any imposition whatsoever, the petty custome of burgh excepted.