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Having the right to bear arms "within the law" indicates that there were some legal restrictions on carry.

Yes and No, In English law "within the law" means the law applies to everyone, Up until the English bill of rights of 1689 if you were royalty or the local Lord the law's did not apply to you, You could do what you wanted and nobody to tell you what is right or wrong the laws did not apply to you. If you were the king you could make up the law's as it suited you, King James II of England had banned protestant's from having weapon's as they were against him and he was the only one who could have an army so he could stay in power. When parliament wrote the bill of rights in 1689 they included the term "within the law" so the law's now applied to everyone. You can read about it below and how it deals with constitutional matters and sets out certain basic civil rights. One of the basic civil rights was the right to bear arms back in 1689 with no restrictions.

"The Bill of Rights, also known as the English Bill of Rights, is an Act of the Parliament of England that deals with constitutional matters and sets out certain basic civil rights. It received the Royal Assent on 16 December 1689 and is a restatement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament to William III and Mary II in February 1689, inviting them to become joint sovereigns of England. The Bill of Rights lays down limits on the powers of the monarch and sets out the rights of Parliament, including the requirement for regular parliaments, free elections, and freedom of speech in Parliament. It sets out certain rights of individuals including the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment and reestablished the right of Protestants to have arms for their defense within the rule of law."
"The Bill of Rights 1689 allowed Protestant citizens of England to "have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law" and restricted the ability of the English Crown to have a standing army or to interfere with Protestants' right to bear arms "when Papists were both Armed and Imployed contrary to Law" and established that Parliament, not the Crown, could regulate the right to bear arms.

"Sir William Blackstone wrote in the 18th century that the right to have arms was auxiliary to the "natural right of resistance and self-preservation" subject to suitability and allowance by law".

"The term arms is derived from the Latin arma (neuter plural), meaning weapons and/or armor, and armare, which means to equip. Originally used in the 1600s, the term refers to the process of equipping for war. It is commonly used as a synonym for weapon. Use of these terms with regard to the right to keep and bear arms is predicated on the concepts of the right of self-defense, defense of property, and defense of state".