Ye olde Engish laws - the shilling?

Question

Hi >
Further to my previuos Q about Longbow practice :::
Apparantly, it is still illegal to leave your home without at least a a shilling in your pocket Or 5p, if you like.
Otherwise, you are liable for arrest under the vagrancy statutes.
Hello, Oficer. Do you take plastic ?
Just a thought .........

Bob

Answer 1

It's possible that this law still exists in the U.K, but I doubt it is ever enforced. We dont have enough police cells to hold every vagrant in the country each night, as long as they're not causing any problems they're left to thier own devices. It's interesting to note that the government here has a team of people going through all our old laws and getting rid of the ones which are outdated, but this team is so small and there are so many old laws that it seems they may never get up to date.

Answer 2

This has something to do with the vagrancy laws of Olde England. A shilling, 5 pence in modern money, would have been a huge sum in middle ages England. I do not think you would have been required to carry as much as that. Did you know that the price of a pint of gin in 1800 was only one penny? So you could be a drunken vagrant for a penny.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I never heard of such a law. But if you were so hard up, then they'd be doing you a favour by arresting you. You'd get three solid meals a day in custody and in court you could apply for money out of the "poor box" (a supply of cash generously donated by magistrates) for your fare home. Not too bad a deal, when all's said and done!

Answer 5

Further to these examples, I believe that, until very recently, it was illegal for London taxi drivers not to carry a bail of hay in their cab. This goes back to the day's of horse drawn carriages! If true, this cannot be part of Common Law, so it must be in an old statute of by-law.

Answer 6

My dad's a Freeman of the City of London back in the days that apprentice's meant something, he is allowed to take his sheep across London Bridge, and brandish his sword in public, I hope he's never done the latter. Does this count???

I forgot one, I think it's still law that black cabs have to have a bale of straw with them for the horses, can't see where our modern day ones would find the room?

Answer 7

it`s also illegal to enter the houses of parlimement wearing a suit of armour and if a cabbie has a rabid dog or a corpse in his cab he is liable for prosecution also he has to ask all passengers if they have small pox or plague before letting them get in I think these laws should be kept they bring our long history to life and do no harm

Answer 8

never heard of that law before. there is some silly old english laws still about like.

- it is illegal to eat red meat on a friday
- and horses still a king of the roads

but i think these laws are silly and i don't think you can get arrested,

Answer 9

vagrancy, I thought that was when a woman asked for a shilling instead of plastic.

Answer 10

So thats what a schilling is a 5 pence. Over here two bits is a Quarter