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An Act to make perpetual certain Parts of an Act of the Thirty-Sixth Year of
His present Majesty for the Safety and Preservation of His Majesty's Person .
. .{1} against Treasonable and Seditious Practices and Attempts,{2} . . .{1}.
[17th March 1817] Recital of 1795 c.7.
WHEREAS by the Treason Act 1795, it was amongst other things enacted that if
any person or persons whatsoever, after the day of the passing of that Act,
during the natural life of His Majesty, and until the end of the next session
of Parliament after the demise of the Crown, should, 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 His Majesty, his heirs and
successsors,... and such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, or
intentions, or any of them, should 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 should be deemed, declared, and adjudged
to be a traitor and traitors, and should suffer pains of death, and also lose
and forfeit as in cases of high treason: And whereas it is necessary and
expedient that such of the provisions of the said Act as would expire at the
end of the next session of Parliament after the demise of the Crown should be
further continued and made perpetual:[
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