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Animal Rights Law - Middle AgesEarly Church Fathers, Middle Age Prohibitions Law-Antiquity « Law-Middle Ages » Law-Renaissance
13th Century | Saint Francis Assisi, "If I ever speak to the emperor, I will beg and persuade him, for the love of God and of me, to enact a special law forbidding anyone to catch or kill our sister larks or do them any harm." 1267-1270 | "For the peace, tranquility, and advantage of the University," King Henry the Third, granted a Charter to Cambridge in 1267. Letters patent in 1269 were issued by the King "to compel all disturbers of the peace of the University to desist from their malpractices, and also to repress whatever should be hurtful to the scholars," and as well as in 1270, "forbidding tournaments, tiltings, justings, or other warlike games in Cambridge" (Cooper, Annals of Cambridge I, "Henry the Third"). That these, as well as future Acts, Charters, Letters, Orders, Ordinances, Statutes, and the like against unlawful games and disturbing the peace were used as a means to prohibit bull and bear-baiting is confirmed in a 1581 letter from Dr. Andrew Perne, regarding "endeavous to put a stop to a bearbaiting at Chesterton," which justified "prohibiting the exercise of any sutch unlawfull games," with "the charters of the universitie, her Majesties Statues…and confirmed by acte of Parliament." A Grant to the University of Cambridge of a charter [March 04] 1605…"amending some defect therein," to include "bear and bull-baiting," (Calendar of State Papers Domestic, James I: Volume 13 March-April, 1605) as well as petitions and letters that followed equated bear and bull baiting as unlawful games prohibited. 13th-18th Century | Although these acts, bills, charters, letters, orders, ordinances, statues and the like, did not either seek to, or prohibit bear-baiting, bull-baiting, cock-fighting, fishing, fowling, hawking, horse-racing or hunting because of cruelty toward animals, they did discourage or suppress these cruelties, even if only for a limited time—and at times led to permanent acts of parliament banning these pastimes. Arguments both for and against amendments to the acts, as well as newer legislation prohibiting these and other cruelties, often referenced these |
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Animal Rights Law—Laws, Acts Legislation Against Cruelty to Animals, Animal Protection Law [BCE-330] Law-Antiquity [330-1485] Law-Middle Ages [330-1485] Law-Renaissance [1660-1785] Law-Enlightenment [1785-0837] Law-Romantic Age [1837-1901] Law-Victorian Age [1901-1945] Law-Early 20th C. _____________ Animal Rights Law—Laws, Acts Legislation Against Cruelty to Animals, Animal Protection Law [BCE-330] Law-Antiquity [330-1485] Law-Middle Ages [330-1485] Law-Renaissance [1660-1785] Law-Enlightenment [1785-0837] Law-Romantic Age [1837-1901] Law-Victorian Age [1901-1945] Law-Early 20th C. _____________
Animal Welfare-Animal Rights Activists-Advocates-Authors Legislators and Educators continuing struggle for Animal Rights, Animal Welfare and Humane Education Against Cruelty to Animals can be seen throughout history in the words and actions of so many individuals. As Primary Source Historical Literature on Animal Rights, Animal Welfare & Humanity Against Cruelty to Animals is made available online, our Animal Rights Timeline, Humane Education Resource, Library-Archive of Primary Source Historical Literature will include not only the more noted events and authors of Animal Rights and the Humane Movement Against Cruelty to Animals, but lesser known advocates as well. | ||||||||
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