Armed gangs called the Blacks for their practice of blacking their faces raided Windsor Forest and Waltham Chase, poaching deer and destroying enclosures; the government responded with the Black Act 1723 creating fifty new capital offences; the Blacks had links to Jacobite disaffection
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