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152: 259: 31: 140: 238:, mandated instead a fine of 10 shillings, selling a monopoly patent for £100 per year to Sir William Udale to collect the fines. Udale earned £870 the first year. Administrators complained that Udale was charging only 2s6d, so that the fine served as a fee rather than a deterrent. In 1614 the 217:
Especially in Ulster, the practice was to attach a short plough to a horse's tail. The simple plough was cheaper than one attached with a harness. The horse would stop in pain when the plough hit a rock, which made rocks less likely to damage the plough. In 1606, an
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to "make a draught of one or more Acts to be passed for restraining the barbaric custom of plowing by the tail, of pulling the wool off living sheep, of burning corn in the straw, of
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A Collection of Statutes Connected with the General Administration of the Law: Arranged According to the Order of Subjects, with Notes
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Evans, Estyn E. (1976). "Some problems of Irish ethnology: the example of ploughing by the tail". In Danaher, Kevin (ed.).
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A bill to suspend the 1635 act for ten years was transmitted and approved by Charles I in 1641, but never enacted as the
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of standing trees, of cutting young trees by stealth, of forcing cows to give milk, and of building houses without
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of the type formerly common in Ireland. They moult in summer, and wool can be plucked instead of being sheared.
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began a period of disruption. The 1635 act's repeal was demanded in 1646 by the
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suggested the fines should be used to pay for better ploughs, or replaced with
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The Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland [JHCI]
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passed in 1635. It was one of the first pieces of legislation to protect the
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An Act against Plowing by the Tayle, and pulling the Wooll off living Sheep.
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An Act against Plowing by the Tayle, and pulling the Wooll off living Sheep
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Confronting Animal Abuse: Law, Criminology, and Human-Animal Relationships
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Evans, William David; Hammond, Anthony; Colpitts Granger, Thomas (1836).
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Lucas, Anthony T. (1973–74). "Irish ploughing practices part 2".
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Paddiana: Or, Scraps and Sketches of Irish Life, Present and Past
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Ireland under the Stuarts and during the interregnum
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Parliament of Ireland
Long title
Citation
Royal assent
Commencement
Repealed by
9 Geo. 4
Text of statute as originally enacted

Northern European short-tailed sheep

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
Lord Deputy of Ireland
act
Parliament of Ireland
rights of animals
Protestant Ascendancy
Gaelic Irish
Poynings' Law
Attorney General
Solicitor-General
barking
chimneys
order in council
garron
royal prerogative
Arthur Chichester
Lord Deputy
Dublin Castle administration
corporal punishment

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