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Only if we restrict it to England/Lowland-Scotland specifically and not the occupied territories in Ireland and the Scottish highlands.

But even there it was in large part only the case because the Hanoverian regime was highly effective at suppressing any type of dissent in pretty brutal ways.

> law-abiding part of the world.

The existence of the ‘Bloody Code’ would imply otherwise.

They functioned as a method of class suppression.