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Item Open Access Danby Pickering, ed., The Statutes at Large, from the Twelfth Year of Queen Anne, to the Fifth Year of King George I: To which Is Prefixed, a Table Containing the Titles of all the Statutes During that Period, Vol. XIII (Cambridge, UK: Joseph Bentham, 1764), 306-07. CAP. LIV—An Act for the more effectual securing the Peace of the Highlands in Scotland, Enacted November 1, 1716 (anno primo Georgii I)(General Publisher, 1716)Prohibited any person within the Scottish Highlands from possession any broad sword, target, poynard, whingar, durk, side-pistol or side-pistols, or gun, or any other warlike weapons. Violators shall forfeit such arms and fined not less than five nor more than forty pounds sterling, and imprisoned until such fine is paid.Item Open Access English Bill of Rights of 1689, 1 Wm. & Mary ch. 2, § 7(General Publisher, 1689)Provided a right for Protestants to have “Arms for their Defense . . . as allowed by law.”Item Open Access English Bill of Rights of 1689, 1 Wm. & Mary 2d Sess., ch. 2, § 6(General Publisher, 1689)Provided a right for Protestants to have “Arms for their Defense . . . as allowed by law.”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). See also 4 Commentaries on the Laws of England 55 (1769)(General Publisher, 1689)Prohibition on Catholics from possessing firearms and ammunition unless an oath renouncing their faith was taken. Catholics who did not attend Church of England services could not keep arms within their home. Used by the Court to define "keeping arms" as outside of militia service.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.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 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 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 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 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.
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