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Nathaniel Ward

1578-1652


1641 | Massachusetts Colony [Nathaniel Ward],"Off the Bruite Creatures," Liberty 92 and 93 in The Body of Liberties of 1641 reprinted in A Bibliographical Sketch of the Laws of the Massachusetts Colony from 1630 to 1686, by William H. Whitmore (Boston, 1890; Digitized by Google, 2006).

Massachusetts Body of Liberties of 1641

Off the Bruite Creatures

92 No man shall exercise any Tirranny or Crueltie towards any bruite Creature which are usuallie kept for man's use.

93 If any man shall have occasion to leade or drive Cattel from place to place that is far of, so that they be weary, or hungry, or fall sick, or lambe, It shall be lawful to rest or refresh them, for a competent time, in any open place that is not Corne, meadow, or inclosed for some peculiar use.


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Against Cruelty to Animals
[c1485-1660] Renaissance
[1509-1564] John Calvin
[1541-1603] Pierre Charron
[1452-1519] Leonardo Da Vinci
[1542-1591] John of the Cross
[1533-1592] Michel de Montaigne
[1614-1687] Henry More
[1478-1535] Thomas More
[1592-1644] Francis Quarles
[c1564-1616] Shakespeare
[1554-1586] Philip Sidney
[c1555-1610] Philip Stubbes
[1578-1652] Nathaniel Ward
[1593-1641] Thomas Wentworth


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Antiquity-Middle Ages
Ancient Animal Rights Law
Early Prohibitions-Middle Ages
[BCE-3rdc.] Mythical-Divine Origin; Antiquity—Classical Literature
[3rdc.-1485] Early Church Fathers, Old-Middle English Period

Renaissance
Early Anti-Cruelty Legislation
[1485-1660] English Renaissance

Enlightenment
Articles-Letters-Enlightenment
Pleas for Laws to Protect Animals
[1660-1689] Restoration
[1689-1745] Augustan Age-Pope
[1745-1785] Age of Sensibility

Romantic Age
Articles-Letters-Romantic Age
Modern Legislative Beginnings
[1785-1798] Burns-Cowper
[1798-1806] Wordsworth
[1806-1837] Byron, Martin's Act

Victorian Age
Articles-Letters-Victorian Age
Anti-Cruelty, Anti-Vivisection Laws
[1837-1876] Early Victorian Age
[1876-1901] Late Victorian Age

Early 20th Century
Articles-Letters-Early 20th
Continuing Animal Protection Law
[1901-1914] Edwardian Age
[1914-1945] Modern Period