Record #2336 (edit record; developers only)

Date: 1823

Event:

The "virtual repeal" of the Black Act, which allowed capital punishment for deer- and wood-stealing from a Lord's property, took place a full century after its original enactment, "after prolonged resistance" to its repeal, including support of the Act expressed in the Quarterly Review 24 (1821): 199.

Notes: E. P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act (New York: Pantheon, 1975), 245, 255 n. 3. 

Work Title

Quarterly Review 

Published: 1821

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6/12/2002


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