Declaration what offences shall be adjudged treason (as in force today)
Item, whereas divers opinions have been before this time
in what case
reason shall be said, and in what not; the King, at the request
of the lords
and of the commons, hath made a declaration in the manner as hereafter
followeth, that is to say; when a man doth compass or imagine the death
of our
lord the King, or of our lady his Queen or of their eldest son and
heir; or if a
man do violate the King's companion, or the King's eldest daughter
unmarried, or
the wife the King's eldest son and heir; or if a man do levy war against
our
lord the King in his realm, or be adherent to the King's enemies in
his realm,
giving to them aid and comfort in the realm, or elsewhere, and thereof
be
probably attainted of open deed by the people of their condition:.
. . and if a
man slea the chancellor, treasurer, or the King's justices of the one
bench or
the other, justices in eyre, or justices of assise, and all other justices
assigned to hear and determine, being in their places, doing their
offices: and
it is to be understood, that in the cases above rehearsed, that ought
to be
judged treason which extends to our lord the King, and
his royal majesty:. .
Original Anglo-French version (25 Edw. III, stat.5, c.2)
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