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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 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.