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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 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 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 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 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 The Laws of the Earliest English Kings, Laws of King Alfred the Great: cap. 36(890)Prohibited going armed with a spear.Item Open Access The Laws of the Earliest English Kings(890)Prohibited fighting in the King's Hall or drawing weapons. Violators may be put to death by the King. Violators who escape may be punished and fined according "to the nature of th eourage he has perpetrated.Item Open Access Laws of King Alfred the Great, A.D. Cir. 890, Cap. 38(890)Prohibited fighting, and drawing weapons at meetings in the presence of an alderman of the King. Violators are fined one hundred and twenty shillings. Violators in the presence of an official subordinate of the alderman are fined thirty shillings.Item Open Access F. L. Attenborough, ed. and trans., The Laws of the Earliest English Kings (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1922), 6-7. Transcription and translation of the Textus Roffensis,1 the Laws of Æthelberht, no. 18(602)Prohibited supplying another with weapons while a quarrel is taking place. If no injury takes place, the lender shall pay a fine of six shillings.