Talk:Cruel Treatment of Cattle Act 1822

Which Animals Protected?
Encyclopedia Brittanica lists a different set of animals as those protected by this law (bold mine):

''Then, in 1821, a bill “to prevent cruel and improper treatment of Cattle” was introduced in the House of Commons, sponsored by Wilberforce and Thomas Fowell Buxton and championed by Irish member of Parliament Richard Martin. The version enacted in 1822, known as Martin’s Act, made it a crime to treat a handful of domesticated animals—cattle, oxen, horses, and sheep—cruelly or to inflict unnecessary suffering upon them.''

Are they just wrong? I can't see the Act at https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ LastDodo (talk) 15:09, 29 July 2022 (UTC)