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    • Thirteenth Century
    • Fourteenth Century
      • 1360: 34 Edward 3 c.1: Justices of the Peace
      • 1379: 2 Richard 2 c. 3: Debtors’ fraudulent deeds.
      • 1392: 16 Richard c.5: Statute of Praemunire
    • Sixteenth Century
      • 1513: 5 Henry 8 c.6: Relieving Surgeons of service.
      • 1530: 22 Henry 8 c. 10: The Egyptians Act.
      • 1531: 23 Henry 8 c.2: For the making of Gaols within the Realm where none be.
      • 1533: 25 Henry 8 c.6: The Buggery Act
      • 1535-6: 27 Henry 8 c.19: An Act limiting an order for sanctuaries and sanctuary persons
      • 1535: 27 Henry 8 c.25: Punishing Sturdy Vagabonds and Beggars.
      • 1539: 31 Henry 8 c.8: Proclamation by the Crown
      • 1541-2: 33 Henry 8 c.8: The Act against Conjurations, Witchcraft, Sorcery and Enchantments
      • 1563: 5 Elizabeth 1 c.16: An Act against Conjurations, Inchantments and Witchcraft
      • 1580-1: 23 Elizabeth c.2: Against seditious words and rumours.
    • Seventeenth Century
      • 1601: 43 Elizabeth 1 c.2: Act for the relief of the poor
      • 1604: 1 James 1 c.12: An Act against Witchcraft
      • 1604: 2 James 1 c.31: For the charitable relief and ordering of persons infested with the plague.
      • 1605: 3 James 1 c.1: Observance of the fifth of November Act
      • 1623: 21 James 1 c.27: To prevent the destroying and murthering of bastard children.
      • 1661: 13 Charles 2 s.2, c.5: Tumultuous Petitioning Act
      • 1666: 19 Charles 2 c.2: Fire of London Disputes Act.
      • 1679: 31 Charles 2 c.2: Habeas Corpus Act
      • 1688: 1 William & Mary s.1, c.30: For the multiplication of Gold and Silver.
      • 1689: 2 William & Mary c.6: Absence of King William Act
      • 1689: 2 William & Mary s.2, c.7: Election of members for the Cinque ports
      • 1689: 2 William & Mary, s.2, c.5: Sale of distrained goods
      • 1696: 7 & 8 William 3 c.35. An act for regulating marriages.
      • 1697: 8 & 9 William 3 c.27: An act for the more effectual relief of creditors in cases of escapes
      • 1699: 10 & 11 William 3 c.25: To Encourage the Trade to Newfoundland
    • Eighteenth Century
      • 1701: 1 Anne s.1 c.25: An act for the relief of poor prisoners for debt
      • 1701: 1 Anne stat 2 c.6: Preventing escapes out of the Queen’s Bench and Fleet prisons.
      • 1704: 2 & 3 Anne c.16: An act for the discharge of Insolvent debtors
      • 1705: 4 Anne c.17: Frauds frequently committed by bankrupts.
      • 1705: 6 Anne c.22: Explaining the Bankrupts Frauds Act
      • 1706: 5 Ann c.8: Union with Scotland Act.
      • 1706: 6 Anne c.9: Escape from Prisons
      • 1708: 7 Anne c.12: Diplomatic Privileges Act
      • 1710: 8 Anne c.19 / c.21: The Statute of Anne
      • 1711: 10 Ann c. 8: Princess Sophia’s Precedence Act
      • 1711: 10 Anne c.15: Repealing the description of a bankrupt
      • 1712: 10 Anne c.20: An Act for Relief of Insolvent Debtors
      • 1713: 12 Anne c.15: Making perpetual the act preventing false returns.
      • 1713: 12 Anne session 2 c. 17: The Usury Act
      • 1714: 1 George 1 St.2 c.5: The Riot Act
      • 1715: 1 George 1 Stat 2 c.38: The Septennial Act
      • 1717: 4 George 1 c.11: The Transportation Act.
      • 1717: 4 George 1 c.12: Making perpetual the preferring of ships.
      • 1718: 5 George 1 c.7: Continuing the tobacco act
      • 1719: 6 George 1 c.22: Relief of Insolvent Debtors
      • 1719: 6 George 1 c.5: Irish Dependency Act
      • 1720: 7 George 1 stat. 1 c.31: Explaining bankrupts acts
      • 1721: 8 George 1 c.10: Repeal of Quarentine Act Clauses
      • 1722: 9 George 1 c.28: Suppression of Southwark Mint
      • 1722: 9 George 1 c.7: Workhouse Test Act
      • 1722: 9 George 1 c.9: Norwich officers’ elections.
      • 1723: 9 George 1 c.22: The Black Act
      • 1724: 11 George 1 c.21: An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors
      • 1724: 11 George 1 c.22: Suppression of Wapping Mint
      • 1725: 12 George 1 c.29: Preventing frivolous and vexatious arrests.
      • 1725: 12 George 1 c.30: Renewing the Black Act.
      • 1726: 13 George 1 c.8: The South Sea slave trade act
      • 1729: 2 George 2 c.20: Insolvent Debtors Relief Act
      • 1729: 2 George 2 c.21: Trials of murders
      • 1729: 2 George 2 c.22: For the relief of imprisoned debtors.
      • 1729: 2 George 2 c.27: The Regency Act
      • 1730: 3 George 2 c.27: Explanation of debtors relief act
      • 1731: 4 George 2 c.21: Naturalizing foreign protestants.
      • 1731: 4 George 2 c.26: Proceedings in Courts of Justice Act
      • 1731: 4 George 2 c.33: Obviating doubts about the Penny Post
      • 1732: 5 George 2 c.18: Qualification of Justices of the Peace
      • 1732: 5 George 2 c.19: Quarter Sessions Appeals
      • 1732: 5 George 2 c.7: Recovery of American Debts
      • 1733: 6 George 2 c.13: The Molasses Act
      • 1734: 7 George 2 c.24: The Histories of Thuanus
      • 1735: 8 George 2 c.13: Engraving Copyright Act
      • 1735: 8 George 2 c.30: Quartering soldiers during elections
      • 1735: 9 George 2 c.5: The Witchcraft Act
      • 1736: 10 George 2 c.26: An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors
      • 1737: 10 George 2 c.28: The Licensing Act
      • 1738: 11 George 2 c.9: Extending the 1737 Relief Act
      • 1739: 12 George 2: c.29: Setting county rates.
      • 1740: 13 George 2 c.17: Encouragement of seamen
      • 1741: 14 George 2 c.34: Continuance of debtor and cochineal acts
      • 1741: 14 George 2 c.42: Preserving public roads.
      • 1742: 16 George 2 c.17: Relief of Insolvent Debtors.
      • 1746: 19 George 2, c.32: Amending the Bankrupts laws.
      • 1747: 21 George 2 c.31: Relief of Insolvent Debtors.
      • 1748: 21 George 2 c.33: Continuing laws for the relief of debtors
      • 1749: 22 George 2 c.24: Inconveniences of hue and cry.
      • 1751: 24 George 2 c.53: The Currency Act
      • 1751: 25 George 2 c.37: The Murder Act
      • 1753: 26 George 2 c.26: Jewish Naturalization Act.
      • 1753: 26 George 2 c.22: Establishing the British Museum
      • 1753: 26 George 2 c.33: Prevention of Clandestine Marriages
      • 1754: 27 George 2 c.1: Repeal of the Jewish Naturalization Act
      • 1756: 29 George 2 c.18: To obviate a doubt concerning the relief of insolvent debtors
      • 1760: 1 George 3 c.17: Relief of Insolvent Debtors
      • 1760: 33 George 2 c.4: Continuing wine- and spirit-making prohibitions
      • 1760: 33 George 2 c.5: Continuing Imports from Ireland.
      • 1761: 2 George 3 c.2: Repeal of compulsion clauses in Relief Act
      • 1762: 3 George 3 c.6: Regulation of Bread in Scotland.
      • 1762: 3 George 3 c.8: Employment of Former Soldiers
      • 1763: 3 George 3 c. 15: Freeman (Admission) Act
      • 1764: 4 George 3 c.15: The Sugar Act
      • 1764: 4 George 3 c.34: The Currency Act
      • 1764: 4 George 3 c.41: Kirby, Westmorland, Small Debts Act
      • 1765: 5 George 3 c.12: The Stamp Act
      • 1765: 5 George 3 c.33: The Quartering Act
      • 1766: 6 George 3 c.11: Repeal of the Stamp Act
      • 1766: 6 George 3 c.12: American Colonies Act
      • 1766: 7 George 3 c. 18: Enabling the British Museum to exchange, sell or dispose of, duplicates.
      • 1766: 7 George 3 c.46: The Townshend Revenue Act
      • 1772: 12 George 3 c. 11: Royal Marriages Act
      • 1773: 13 George 3 c.21: British Nationality Act
      • 1773: 13 George 3 c.42: James Cox’s Musaeum
      • 1773: 13 George 3 c.44: The Tea Act
      • 1774: 14 George 3 c.19: Boston Port Act
      • 1774: 14 George 3 c.39: Administration Of Justice Act
      • 1774: 14 George 3 c.45: Massachusetts Government Act
      • 1774: 14 George 3 c.54: The Quartering Act
      • 1774: 14 George 3 c.83: The Quebec Act
      • 1774: 14 George 3 c.84: Bills of Naturalization
      • 1775: 15 George 3 c.28: Colliers and Salters (Scotland) Act.
      • 1775: 15 George 3 c.31: Encouragement of Fisheries
      • 1780: 20 George 3 c.63: Indemnification of suppressors of the Gordon Riots
      • 1780: 20 George 3 c.64: Preventing mischiefs after the Gordon Riots
      • 1781: 21 George 3 c.1: Extending prevention of mischiefs after the Gordon Riots
      • 1782: 22 George 3 c.53: Repeal of the Irish Dependency Act
      • 1783: 23 George 3 c.28: Irish Appeals Act
      • 1785: 25 George 3 c.44: Regulating insurances on ships
      • 1786: 26 George 3 c.38: Regulating the time of imprisonment of debtors
      • 1786: 26 George 3 c.44: Relief of imprisoned debtors.
      • 1788: 28 George 3 c.55: For the protection of Stocking Frames.
      • 1790: 30 George 3 c.48: The (Women’s) Treason Act.
      • 1791: 31 George 3 c.31: The Constitutional Act
      • 1792: 32 George 3 c.60: The Libel Act
      • 1793: 33 George 3 c.5: Renewing the Lords Act of 1758
      • 1794: 34 George 3, c.54: Suspension of Habeas Corpus Act
      • 1794: 34 George 3 c.61: Bakers Working on Sundays Act
      • 1795: 36 George 3 c.7: Treasonable and Seditious Practices Act
      • 1795: 36 George 3 c.8 : Seditious Assemblies Act
    • Nineteenth Century
      • 1800: 39 & 40 George 3 c.106: The Combination Act
      • 1800: 39 & 40 George 3 c.93: The Treason Act
      • 1801: 41 George 3 c.52: House of Commons (Disqualifications) Act
      • 1803: 43 George 3 c.141: Justices Protection Act
      • 1803: 43 George 3 c.58: Lord Ellenborough’s Act
      • 1805: 45 George 3 c.127: Vesting the Townleian Collection in the British Museum.
      • 1805: 45 George 3 c.3: Remedying omissions in the insolvents relief act of 1804.
      • 1806: 46 George 3 c.37: The Witnesses Act
      • 1807: 47 George 3 c.36: Enabling the British Museum to exchange, sell or dispose of parts of the collections.
      • 1807: 57 George 3 sess. 1 c.36: Slave Trade Act
      • 1812: 52 George 3. c. 13: Amending the 1811 Insolvent Debtors Relief Act
      • 1812: 52 George 3. c.16: The Frame-Breaking Act
      • 1813: 54 George 3 c.42: The Frame-Breaking Act
      • 1813: 53 George 3 c.72: Manchester Justices Act.
      • 1814: 54 George 3 c. 145: Corruption of Blood Act
      • 1817: 57 George 3 c.126: Punishment of Persons Destroying Stocking or Lace Frames.
      • 1817: 57 George 3 c.52: Deserted Tenements Act
      • 1819: 59 George 3 c.46: Appeal of Murder Act
      • 1819: 60 George 3 & 1 George 4 c.1: Unlawful Drilling Act
      • 1819: 60 George 3 & 1 George 4 c.2: Seizure of Arms
      • 1819: 60 George 3 & 1 George 4 c.4: Misdemeanours Act
      • 1819: 60 George 3 & 1 George 4 c.6: Seditious Meetings Act
      • 1819: 60 George 3 & 1 George 4 c.8: Blasphemous and Seditious Libels
      • 1819: 60 George 3 & 1 George 4 c.9: Newspaper and Stamp Duties Act
      • 1820: 1 George 4 c.50: Removal of Slaves from Bahamas to Demerara.
      • 1821: 1 & 2 George 4 c.17: Repeal of the Irish Witchcraft Act
      • 1822: 3 George 4 c.71: Cruel Treatment of Cattle Act
      • 1823: 4 George 4 c.48: Judgement of Death Act
      • 1824: 5 George 4 c.83: Vagrancy Act
      • 1825: 6 George 4 c.91: Repeal of the Bubble Act
      • 1829: 10 George 4 c.22: Western Australia Act.
      • 1830: 11 George 4 & 1 William 4 c.55: Bounties on Seizures of Slaves
      • 1832: 2 & 3 William 4 c. 75: The Anatomy Act
      • 1833: 3 & 4 William 4 c.73: Abolition of Slavery Act.
      • 1835: 5 & 6 William 4 c.59: Cruelty to Animals Act
      • 1835: 5 & 6 William 4 c.75: The Tithing of Turnips
      • 1837: 1 Victoria c.3: Slavery Compensation Act
      • 1837: 1 Victoria c.66: Cruelty to Animals (Ireland)
      • 1837: 7 William 4 & 1 Victoria c.23: Abolition of the Pillory
      • 1838: 1 & 2 Victoria c.67: Prisons in the West Indies.
      • 1838: 1 & 2 Victoria c.94: Public Records Act
      • 1842: 5 & 6 Victoria c.23: Turnpike Acts (Ireland) Act
      • 1843: 6 & 7 Victoria c.69: Continuance of Turnpike Acts
      • 1849: 12 & 13 Victoria c.92: Cruelty to Animals Act
      • 1850: 13 & 14 Victoria c.59: Cruelty to Animals (Scotland)
      • 1852: 15 Victoria c.29: Enclosure of Kennington Common
      • 1854: 17 & 18 Victoria c.33: Public Statues (Metropolis) Act.
      • 1854: 17 & 18 Victoria c.60: Amending Cruelty to Animals Act
      • 1857: 20 & 21 Victoria c.83: Obscene Publications Act
      • 1857: 20 Victoria c.1: Amending time of Service in the Marines
      • 1858: 21 & 22 Victoria c.106: Government of India Act
      • 1858: 21 Victoria c.22: Abolition of Franchise Prisons
      • 1869: 32 & 33 Victoria c.62: Debtors Act
      • 1870: 33 & 34 Victoria c.93: Married Women’s Property Act
      • 1876: 39 & 40 Victoria c.77: Cruelty to Animals Act
      • 1880: 43 & 44 Victoria c.9: Definition of Time Act.
      • 1881: 44 & 45 Victoria c.61: Sunday Closing (Wales) Act.
      • 1882: 45 & 46 Victoria c.73: Ancient Monuments Protection Act
      • 1887: 50 & 51 Victoria, c.29: Preventing the Fraudulent Sale of Margarine.
      • 1889: 52 & 53 Victoria c. 52: Official Secrets Act
      • 1892: 55 & 56 Victoria c.46: Ancient Monuments Protection (Ireland) Act.
      • 1896: 59 & 60 Victoria c.1: Local Government (Elections) Act
      • 1896: 59 & 60 Victoria c.5: Poor Law Guardians (Ireland) (Women) Act
    • Twentieth Century
      • 1900: 63 & 64 Victoria c.34: Ancient Monuments Protection Act
      • 1903: 3 Edward 7 c.1: St Patrick’s Day Holiday
      • 1908: 8 Edward 7 c.66: Public Meeting Act.
      • 1910: 10 Edward 7 & 1 George 5 c. 29: Accession Declaration Act
      • 1913: 3 & 4 George 5 c.4: Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health) Act
      • 1914: 5 George 5 c.16: Royal Marines Act
      • 1916: 5 & 6 George 5 c.104. Military Service Act
      • 1916: 6 & 7 George 5 c.19: Amending the British North America Act
      • 1918: 7 & 8 George 5 c.64: Representation of the People Act
      • 1918: 8 & 9 George 5 c.47: Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act
      • 1918: 8 & 9 George 5 c.59: Termination of the Present War (Definition) Act
      • 1919: 9 & 10 George 5 c.71: Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act.
      • 1928: 18 & 19 George 5 c.12: Equal Franchise Act
      • 1936: 1 Edward 8 & 1 George 6 c.6: Public Order Act
      • 1940: 3 & 4 George 6 c.53: Prolongation of Parliament Act.
      • 1951: 14 & 15 George 6 c. 33: Fraudulent Mediums Act
    • Private (Local and Personal)
      • 1798: 38 George 3 local act c.lviii: Lancashire Sessions Act
      • 1825: 6 George 4 local act c. cxxxiv: Tothill Fields Improvement Act
    • Irish Laws
      • 1586: 28 Elizabeth 1 c. 2: An Act against Witchcraft and Sorcerie.
      • 1634: 10 Charles 1 session 2 c.19: Trial of Murders Act
      • 1737: 11 George 2 c.6: Administration of Justice (Language) Act
    • Scottish Laws
      • 1563: Mary c.73: Anentis Witchcraft

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