Has anyone ever actually READ the Riot Act?
If you haven’t. It’s right here. Full text of the Riot Act of 1714 http://reactor-core.org/riot-act.html THE Statutes at Large FROM THE Twelfth Year of Queen ANNE, TO THE Fifth Year of King George I. To which is prefixed, A TABLE containing the TITLES of all the STATUTES during that Period. VOL. XIII. By DANBY PICKERING, of Gray’s-Inn, Esq; Reader of the Law Lecture to that Honourable Society. CAMBRIDGE Printed by JOSEPH BENTHAM, Printer to the UNIVERSITY; for CHARLES BATHURST, at the Cross-Keys, opposite St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet-Street, London. 1764. CUM PRIVILEGIO Anno primo GEORGE I, Statute 2, Caption 5. PAGES 142-146 An act for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies, and for the more speedy and effectual punishing the rioters. I. Whereas of late many rebellious riots and tumults have been in divers parts of this kingdom, to the disturbance of the publick peace, and the endangering of his Majesty’s person and government, and the same are yet continued and fomented by person
