1720 - 1734 (13 years)
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1 | 1723 | - 1723: The Waltham Black Acts add 50 capital offences to the penal code - people could be sentenced to death for theft and poaching
- 1723: The Workhouse Act or Test - to get relief, a poor person has to enter Workhouse
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2 | 1725 | |
3 | 1727 | - 1727: George II King of England 1727 - 1760
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4 | 1729 | - 1729: Methodists formed at Oxford
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5 | 1730 | |
6 | 1733 | - 1733: Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed - some continued in Latin for a few years
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