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TREASON ACT 1795 - SECT 1

1.] IF any person or persons whatsoever... shall, within the realm or without,
compass, imagine, invent, devise or intend death or destruction, or any bodily
harm tending to death or destruction, maim or wounding, imprisonment or
restraint, of the person of... our sovereign lord the King, his heirs and
successors,... and such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices or
intentions, or any of them, shall express, utter or declare, by publishing any
printing or writing, or by any overt act or deed, being legally convicted
thereof upon the oaths of two lawful and credible witnesses upon trial, or
otherwise convicted or attainted by due course of law, then every such person
and persons so as aforesaid offending shall be deemed, declared and adjudged
to be a traitor and traitors, and shall suffer pains of death,... as in cases
of high treason.

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