Black Act

Black Act

The Black Act (9 Geo. 1 c. 22), was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1723 during the reign King George I of Great Britain in response to the Waltham deer poachers and a group of bandits known as the 'Wokingham Blacks'. It made it a felony (that is, a hanging offence) to appear armed in a park or warren, or to hunt or steal deer, with the face blackened or disguised. The Act was later amended to deal with protesters outside the royal forests and chases, becoming a brutal adjunct to the Riot Act of 1715. The Black Act was repealed in 1827. Subsequent acts inflicting heavy penalties for malicious injuries to livestock and machinery have also been called black acts.

ee also

*Riot Act

Further reading

E. P. Thompson, Whigs and hunters : the origin of the Black Act, London : Allen Lane, 1975 [ISBN 0-7139-0991-9]

External links

* [http://www.monbiot.com/archives/1994/10/26/back-to-1662/ Back to 1662]
* [http://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ng169.htm Offenders] from The Newgate Calendar


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