11. Taverns, Inns, Ale-houses, Bowling Allies, and such like thriftless places of resort for tradesmen and artificers, to be under strict surveillance.
12. Gallants, or riotous young gents, to be sharply looked after, and their proceedings controlled.
13. Gentlemen with greyhounds and birding-pieces, who would elude the statutes against gunnes, to be called to account "for the shallow-brain'd idlenesse of their ridiculous foolery."
14. The statute against ryotous expence in apparel to be put in force against unthriftie infractors.
There is room here for a few Queries, but I content myself with asking for a further reference to No. 4., "The Salt-peter-man."
J. O.
Footnote 1: [(return)]
No doubt the author of an ultra-Protestant poem, entitled Times Anatomie, made by Robert Prickett, a Souldier. Imprinted, 1606.
[SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE.]
Dogberry's Losses or Leases.—Much Ado about Nothing, Act IV. Sc. 4.: