The Prince and the Pauper • Paragraph 1624
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From many descriptions of larceny the law expressly took away the benefit of clergy: to steal a horse, or a _hawk_, or woollen cloth from the weaver, was a hanging matter. So it was to kill a deer from the King’s forest, or to export sheep from the kingdom.--Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull’s Blue Laws, True and False, p.13.