Armed gangs called the Blacks for the 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.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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