deer-stealing

In the course of his own history, the particulars of which he delighted to recount, he had often rehearsed an adventure of deer-stealing, in which, during the unthinking impetuosity of his youth, he had been unfortunately concerned.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

The learned shook their heads at him, for he was a poor half-educated varlet, that knew little of Latin, and nothing of Greek, and had been obliged to run the country for deer-stealing.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

Shakspeare, in company with some of the roysterers of Stratford, committed his youthful offence of deer-stealing.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

I must inform my reader that the method these young men took in deer-stealing was this.

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

Privy Council: the city authorities were required to take instant and arbitrary measures for putting an end to the consumption of venison and to the practice of deer-stealing, by means of which houses &c. of public resort in London were furnished with that favourite viand.

Notes and Queries, Number 01, November 3, 1849 Various

Sometimes they contrived to combine their love of hunting with their love of street-fighting, as on the memorable occasion in Queen Elizabeth's reign, when the Magdalen men went deer-stealing in Shotover Forest, and one of them was sent to prison by Lord Norris, the Lord Lieutenant of the county.

The Customs of Old England

But, in that age, when half the country was covered with forests, deer-stealing was a venial offence, and equivalent to snaring a hare in our days.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 331, September 13, 1828 Various

_ For you must know it is the first article in their creed that there's no sin in deer-stealing.

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

He repeats the deer-stealing anecdote, with further detail.

The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson

In "The Life of Shakespeare," prefixed to the edition of his Works I saw through the press three of four years ago, I necessarily entered into the deer-stealing question, admitting that I could not, as some had done, "entirely discredit the story," and following it up by proof (in opposition to the assertion of Malone), that Sir Thomas Lucy had deer, which Shakespeare might have been concerned in stealing.

Notes and Queries, Number 01, November 3, 1849 Various