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The Unlawful Games Act 1541 (33 Hen 8 c 9), sometimes referred to as the Suppression of Unlawful Games Act 1541, was an Act of the Parliament of England, designed to prohibit "Several new devised Games" that caused "the Decay of Archery". All Men under the Age of sixty Years "shall have Bows and Arrows for shooting". Men-Children between Seven "Years and Seventeen shall have a Bow and 2 Shafts". Men about Seventeen "Years of Age shall keep a Bow and 4 Arrows". The penalty for nonobservance was set at 6s.8d. Section 1 of the Gaming Act 1845 repealed much of the Unlawful Games Act 1541.

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  • Unlawful Games Act 1541 (en)
  • 1541年不合法遊戲法令 (zh)
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  • The Unlawful Games Act 1541 (33 Hen 8 c 9), sometimes referred to as the Suppression of Unlawful Games Act 1541, was an Act of the Parliament of England, designed to prohibit "Several new devised Games" that caused "the Decay of Archery". All Men under the Age of sixty Years "shall have Bows and Arrows for shooting". Men-Children between Seven "Years and Seventeen shall have a Bow and 2 Shafts". Men about Seventeen "Years of Age shall keep a Bow and 4 Arrows". The penalty for nonobservance was set at 6s.8d. Section 1 of the Gaming Act 1845 repealed much of the Unlawful Games Act 1541. (en)
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  • An Acte for Mayntenance of Artyllarie and debarringe of unlawful Games. (en)
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  • The Unlawful Games Act 1541 (en)
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  • The Unlawful Games Act 1541 (33 Hen 8 c 9), sometimes referred to as the Suppression of Unlawful Games Act 1541, was an Act of the Parliament of England, designed to prohibit "Several new devised Games" that caused "the Decay of Archery". All Men under the Age of sixty Years "shall have Bows and Arrows for shooting". Men-Children between Seven "Years and Seventeen shall have a Bow and 2 Shafts". Men about Seventeen "Years of Age shall keep a Bow and 4 Arrows". The penalty for nonobservance was set at 6s.8d. Archery, which had been the key to Henry V's victory at the 1415 Battle of Agincourt, had been required of the labourers, servants, artificers, or victuallers as early as 1388 (12 Ric 2, c.6) and 1409 (11 Hen IV, c.4), and again in An Act concerning shooting in Long Bows (3 Hen 8, c.3) and the (6 Hen 8, c.2), among others. In fact, the law of 1409 had as punishment six days' imprisonment; and reference is made herein to an act in the Parliament at Canterbury of Richard the Lionheart. of St Mary Magdalen Oxford was prosecuted for fixing a game of Le Tenyse while the Tudor kings played on: Item duodecim jurati presentant quod quidam Iohannes Warleman de parochia sancte Magdalene recepit diatim infra domum suam diversos homines ludentes ad pilam vocat le Tenyse & alia joca illicita. Section 1 of the Gaming Act 1845 repealed much of the Unlawful Games Act 1541. The Statute Law Revision Act 1948 repealed Sections 11 to 13, part of Section 8, and the preambulatory words "by reason therof Archerie ys sore decayed, and dayly is lyke to be more mynished..." Archery could not compete with the nefarious pursuits of cricket, dicing, and carding. The remainder of the whole Act was repealed by section 15 of, and Part I of Schedule 6 to, the Betting and Gaming Act 1960 (8 & 9 Eliz. 2, c.60). The Act forbade all sport on Christmas Day with the exception of archery practice, meaning that footballers who played on Christmas Day before 1960, when the Football League routinely scheduled fixtures for 25 December, had technically broken the law. (en)
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