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Waltham Black Act
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Waltham Black Act, 1722. The statute of 9 Geo. I c. 22 has long been held up as a specimen of draconian 18th-cent. legislation. It originated in response to an outbreak of organized poaching in Windsor Forest and near Waltham (Hants), and declared that to go abroad in woodland areas, commons, or on the high road in disguise or with blackened face was a felony without benefit of clergy and punishable by death. The gangs were so ruthless and intimidating that more and more offences were specified until the Act became a compendium of rural disorder—cutting down trees, maiming cattle, setting fire to ricks, breaking down fish-ponds, writing threatening letters, and shooting at people. In the end fifty or more offences were included in the Act. Passed for three years, it was continued until 1758 and then made permanent. It was abolished, largely at the instigation of
Mackintosh and
Peel, in 1823.
J. A. Cannon
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Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/8/1991; ; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/12/1992; ; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/8/1991; ; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/27/2002; ; 700+ words
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William J. Gallagher, Waltham headmaster.(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 8/24/1997; 700+ words
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Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Waltham Black Act
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Waltham Black Act, 1722. The statute of 9 Geo. I c. 22 has long been held up...response to an outbreak of organized poaching in Windsor Forest and near Waltham (Hants), and declared that to go abroad in woodland areas, commons...
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Waltham Forest
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Waltham Holy Cross
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Lowell, Francis Cabot
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
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