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Item Open Access 1 Blackstone ch. 1 (1769)(General Publisher, 1769)Recognized the “fifth and last auxiliary right,” which provided that Protestant subjects had the right to “arms for their defence” “such as are allowed by law.”Item Open Access 1 Dictionary of the English Language 106 (4th ed.) (reprinted 1978)(General Publisher, 1773)Used by the Court to define arms as weapons of offence, or armour of defence.Item Open Access 1 William Blackstone,Commentaries 139, ch. 1 p. 104(1765)(General Publisher, 1765)Discussed "the fifth and last auxiliary right", that Englishmen shall have arms for their defence. "Suitable to their condition and degree, and such as are allowed by law.Item Open Access 12 Richard II ch. 6 (1388)(General Publisher, 1388)Prohibited possession of a sword or dagger by servants unless accompanied by their master.Item Open Access 13 Edward I, ch. 6 (1285), in 1 STATUTES OF THE REALM 97–98 (1800).(General Publisher, 1285)Required all males aged fifteen to sixty in certain income groups to have at least particular quantities of arms and armor.Item Open Access 14 Car. II c.3 (1662)(General Publisher, 1662)Ordered deputy lieutenants to seize arms from any person “judge[d] dangerous to the Peace of the Kingdom.”Item Open Access 1662 Militia Act, 8 Danby Pickering, The Statutes at Large, from the Twelfth Year of King Charles II, to the Last Year of King James II 40 (1763)(General Publisher, 1662)Ordered the king’s agents to search for and seize all arms in the custody or possession of any person “judge[ d] dangerous to the peace of the kingdom.”Item Open Access 2 Edw. 3, c. 3 (1328) (Eng.)(General Publisher, 1328)Statute of Northhampton; forbade any person to come before the King's justices or ministers "with force and arms," "nor bring no force in affray of the peace, nor to go nor ride armed" in fairs, markets, before the justices and ministers, "nor in no part elsewhere…."Item Open Access 20 Rich. 2, ch. 1 (1396)(General Publisher, 1396)Prohibited possession of launcegays. Punished by forfeiture of the weapon.Item Open Access 22 & 23 Car. 2, ch. 25 (1671)(General Publisher, 1671)Prohibited any person “not having Lands and Tenements of the clear yearly value of One hundred pounds” from firearm possession.Item Open Access 26 Hen. 8, c. 6, § 4 (1534)(General Publisher, 1534)Prohibited Welsh residents or lords from bearing any bill, longbow, crossbow, handgun, sword, staff, dagger, halberd, morespike, spear, or any other manner of weapon into sessions, court, town, church, fair, market, other congregation, or on the highways in affray of the King's peace or the King's liege people. Violators punished with imprisonment and fine.Item Open Access 27 Henry II, art. 3 (1181).(1181)Required all freemen to be armed with a doublet of mail, a head-piece of iron, and a lance. Let all freemen holding chattels to the value of 16 marks to have a hauberk, helmet, a shield, and lance.Item Open Access 33 Hen. 8, ch. 6 §§ 1, 2, 18(General Publisher, 1541)Prohibited possession of any crossbow, handgun, hagbutt, or demy hake. Exempted subjects living within 12 miles of the Scottish border. Punishable by forfeiture or payment of 10 pounds.Item Open Access 4 Hen 4, c. 29 (1403) (Eng.)(General Publisher, 1403)Prohibited the use of armor or arms in sensitive places by people not allowed by the King.Item Open Access 4 Jac. I, ch. 1 (1606)(General Publisher, 1606)Repealed exemption for subjects living with 12 miles of the Scottish border for the keeping of crossbows, handguns, and demy hakes.Item Open Access 7 Edw. 2, 170 (1313)(General Publisher, 1313)Prohibited coming into any parliament with "force" and armour.Item Open Access 7 Rich. 2, ch. 13 (1383)(General Publisher, 1383)Prohibited possession of launcegays. Punished by forfeiture of the weapon.Item Open Access 9 Geo. 1, c. 22 (1723), An act for the more effectual punishing wicked and evil-disposed persons going armed in disguise, and doing injuries and violences to the persons and properties of his Majesty’s subjects, and for the more speedy bringing the offenders to justice.(General Publisher, 1723)Prohibited anyone going armed with sword, fire-arms, or other offensive weapons while having their faces blacked or disguised in any forest, chase, park, paddock, grounds inclosed with any wall, pale, or fence… or in any high road, open heath, common or down, or to wilfully hunt unlawfully. Violators guilty of a felony, and shall suffer death.Item Open Access A Proclamation Against Steelets, Pocket Daggers, Pocket Dagges and Pistols (R. Barker printer 1616).(General Publisher, 1616)Banned the wear, carry, manufacturer, or sale of steelets, pocket daggers, pocket daggs, & pistols.Item Open Access An Act for the Better Securing the Government by Disarming Papists and Reputed Papists, 1 W. & M., Sess. 1, ch. 15 (Eng. 1688)(General Publisher, 1689)Prohibition on Catholics from possessing firearms and ammunition unless an oath renouncing their faith was taken.