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All males over the age 14 must carry out 2 or so hours of longbow practice a week supervised by the local clergy.
This was on the books until a massive 2012 “cleanup” of archaic laws.
Picnics are prohibited in graveyards.
Sec. 9-7. Injury to property, trees, etc.–Picnicking; firearms. No person in the city cemeteries shall pick flowers of any kind, break branches from shrubs or trees, or climb fences to the cemeteries or trees located therein. Picnicking, lunching, lounging, shooting or loud and boisterous or disorderly conduct are forbidden in the cemeteries. No person with…
Except on Sundays, it is lawful to kill a Scotsman in York if he is carrying a bow and arrow.
However, any Scotsman caught drunk or with a weapon can still be shot on a Sunday, except with a bow and arrow. Similarly, in Chester, it is legal to shoot a Welsh person with a crossbow, as long as it is within the city walls and is done after midnight. This was actually on the…