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Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnae Britannie, Franciae & Hiberniae, Decimo Tertio. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Tenth Day of May, Anno Domini 1768…

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Unrecorded edition of an act ‘for the more effectual preservation of the Game in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland’, which brought Scottish game law in line with English. The act sets out the strict hunting seasons for each type of game (muir fowl or tarmargen are banned between 10 December and 12 August; heath fowl between 10 December and 20 August; partridge 1 February - 1 September; and pheasant 1 February – 1 October), and the severe penalties for not only anyone hunting, but for ‘every Person who shall wilfully take, kill, destroy, carry, sell, buy, or have in his or her Possession, or use’ outside of the season, and all those caught doing so without a licence. Miscreants are to be fined increasingly steeply, with lengthy prison stays for anyone who fails to pay off their fine within ten days.

Also governed are the burning of fires on moors and heaths, or ‘muirburn’, a still-extant practice of controlled burning back of wild heather, in order to remove the canopy of older growth, and allow the new heather, grass, and bilberry, which grouse, deer, hares and other game feed on, to thrive. The act gives strict instruction as to the timing of the fires, and liabilities of landowners and tenants, and exceptions to the law in case of inclement weather.

Not in ESTC, which records only the edition printed in London, listing only one copy. OCLC and Library Hub record no copies.