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at least to have been a main ingredient in those
considerations which produced the Judgement.
The mischief which this act was designed to cope
with (or rather the particular methods practised
in committing it) is minutely stated, although
there was no use for it, in the preamble. It
was that of other stealing I the practice of a gang of malefactors who used
either sometimes to steal the sheep alive or but frequently
to kill it on the spot for the sake merely of
carrying off a particular part of it, the inward
fat. In all this history nothing is said of any
other kind of Cattle. Sheep then were the sole
object of the mischief. An inference not unnatural
therefore was, that Sheep were meant to be the
sole object of the remedy. And for the words
"other Cattle" that were to be found in the body
of the Act, it might be supposed that they were
put in out of abundant caution the different
names given to animals of the sheep species
from the different circumstances of age and sex.

For no caution [of that] which shews itself in prolixity
and thence after in ambiguityness is improbable, that is conceivable, of in the penners
of our Laws.

As for this next amending Statute our Author
speaks of, it looks as if it had been made in a
fit of spleen, as the first was seems to have been in a fit of absence:
and as if, by the multitude catalogue of synonymisms which

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Folio number	106	Info in main headings field	construction
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