The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain. Accompanied with descriptions (1815)
Storer, James, 1771-1853 · London, Published for the proprietors by Wm. Clarke... J. Murray... S. Bagster... J.M. Richardson... and Sherwood and Co. .. · leaf 36
infested by a notorious gang of deer stealers, who fromtheir custom of blacking their faces before they sallied forthto commit their depredations in the adjacent forests, obtain-ed the name of Waltham Blacks : so strange was the infa-tuation indeed, that for a time no young person, unless hewas a… … i BISHOP S WALTHAM PALACE. great, as to demand the interference of the legislature, andin the ninth year of George the Second, anno 1723, an actwas passed, to restrain their enormities. Severity was certainly necessary, but this act, called theBlack Act^ has another character; it is sanguinary,…
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