An Act was therefore passed forbidding English subjects to hold any intercourse orally, or by writing, or by message, with the exiled family.

A day was fixed after which no English subject, who had, during the late war, gone into France without the royal permission or borne arms against his country was to be permitted to reside in this kingdom, except under a special license from the King.

Whoever infringed these rules incurred the penalties of high treason.
The dismay was at first great among the malecontents.

For English and Irish Jacobites, who had served under the standards of Lewis or hung about the Court of Saint Germains, had, since the peace, come over in multitudes to England.

It was computed that thousands were within the scope of the new Act.