Work on the Statutes Project in March and April 2017:<\/p>\n
0: Numerous corrections to Pickering’s series of Statutes at Large. Latest versions to be found, as ever, on Github<\/a>.<\/p>\n 1: More tables of statutes uploaded to Github<\/a>. Currently, there are tables for public acts 1716 to 1736, with just 1721 missing. This I’ll upload shortly.<\/p>\n 2: More legislation collected, to the point that the menus are getting unweildly and I’ll have to do some reorganizing. Acts added include: On the to do list for May 2017: due to the demands of my PhD, I’ll be working on the insolvent debtor relief acts from 1649 to 1813 over the next month; consequently, those texts will be corrected and added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Work on the Statutes Project in March and April 2017: 0: Numerous corrections to Pickering’s series of Statutes at Large. Latest versions to be found, as ever, on Github. 1: More tables of statutes uploaded to Github. Currently, there are tables for public acts 1716 to 1736, with just 1721 missing. This I’ll upload shortly. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-site-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Murder Act of 1751<\/a>, giving the corpses of the hanged to the surgeons (and occasioning many a riot).
\nThe Regency Act 1729<\/a>, allowing the Queen to govern whilst George the Second went off to Hanover.
\nThe Septennial Act<\/a>, extending the life of a parliament to seven years. A quite undemocratic act, had there been any meaningful suffrage<\/p>\n