r may have it only if he is a gentleman. If one steals a hawk
from a lord or conceals from him the fact that it has been found,
he shall pay the price of the hawk and be imprisoned for two
years.

No laborer or any other man who does not have lands and tenements
of the value of 40s. per year shall keep a greyhound [or other
hound or dog] to hunt, nor shall they use nets or cords or other
devices to take [deer, hare, rabbits, nor other gentlemen's game],
upon pain of one year imprisonment. (The rabbit had been
introduced by the Normans.) This 1390 law was primarily intended
to stop the meetings of laborers and artificers.

No man shall eat more than two courses of meat or fish in his
house or elsewhere, except at festivals, when three are allowed
[because great men ate costly meats to excess and the lesser
people were thereby impoverished].

No one may export silver, whether bullion or coinage, or wine
except foreign merchants may carry back the portion of their money
not used to buy English commodities. The penalty for bringing
false or counterfeit money into the nation is loss of life and
member. An assigned searcher [inspector] for coinage of the nation
on the sea passing out of the nation or bad money in the nation
shall have one third of it. No foreign money may be used in the
nation.

Each goldsmith shall have an identifying mark, which shall be
placed on his vessel or work only after inspection by the King's
surveyor.

No one shall give anything to a beggar who is capable of working.

Vagrants begging in London were banned by this 1359 ordinance:
"Forasmuch as many men and women, and others, of divers counties,
who might work, to the help of the common people, have betaken
themselves from out of their own country to the city of London and
do go about begging there so as to have their own ease and repose,
not wishing to labor or work for their sustenance, to the great
damage of the common people; and also do waste divers alms which
would otherwise be given to many poor folks, such as lepers,
blind, halt, and persons oppressed with old age and divers other
maladies, to the destruction of the support of the same - we do
command on behalf of our lord the King, whom may God preserve and
bless, that all those who go about begging in the said city and
who are able to labor and work for the profit of the common people
shall quit the said city between now and Monday next ensuing. And
if any such shall be found be