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No Man Shall Ride in Harness within the Realm, nor with Launcegays, 7 Ric. 2, ch. 13 (1383).

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  • 1383
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Categorical Bans,

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English Law,

“CAP. XIII.
No Man shall ride in Harness within the Realm, nor with Launcegays.

ITEM it is ordained and assented, and also the King doth prohibit, That from henceforth no Man shall ride in Harness within the Realm, contrary to the Form of the Statute of Northampton thereupon made, neither with Launcegay within the Realm, the which Launcegays be clearly put out within the said Realm, as a Thing prohibited by our Lord the King, upon Pain of Forfeiture of the said Launcegays, Armours, and other Harness, in whose Hands or Possession they be found that bear them within the Realm, contrary to the Statutes and Ordinances aforesaid, without the King’s special Licence.”

Owen Ruffhead, ed., The Statues at Large, from Magna Charta, to the End of Last Parliament, 1761, vol. 1 (London, UK: Mark Basett, 1769), 368. Chapter 13—No Man Shall Ride in Harness within the Realm, nor with Launcegays. Promulgated in the 7th year of the reign of King Richard II (1383).

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