- No cows may be driven down the roadway between 10 AM and 7 PM unless there is prior approval from the Commissioner of Police. (Metropolitan Streets Act of 1867)
- It is illegal to gamble, use obscene or abusive language. (The Library Offences Act of 1898)
- No unauthorised persons may discharge cannons within 300 yards of a dwelling (The Metropolitan Police Act of 1839)
- To keep, use or act in the management of any house, room, pit or other place for the purpose of fighting or baiting lions bears or other animals ( The Metropolitan Police Act of 1839)
- Women can scold feely. (The Criminal Law Act 1967 repealed the 1585 law which made it illegal for a woman to cause a nuisance with argumentative language)
- Hanging out washing or shaking doormats in a public street after 08:00. (The Town Police Clauses Act of 1847)
- Failing to offer any whalebone or sturgeon to the crown: Prerogativa Regis 1324;
- Driving a cow, steam engine or horse whilst drunk: (The Licensing Act of 1872)
- London hackney carriages failing to carry a bale of hay and a sack of oats, a plague sufferer hailing a taxi or carrying corpses or rabid dogs (London Byelaws)
- Failing to hang straw bales from Barnes Railway Bridge during repair (London Byelaw 29)
