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on his way to open

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in 1795, the other being the

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( 36 Geo. 3. c. 8). The act made it high treason to "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 ... the King". This was derived from the

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( 13 Cha. 2 St. 1. c. 1), which had expired. The 1795 act was originally a temporary act which was to expire when George III died, but it was made permanent by the

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( 57 Geo. 3. c. 6). Some other treasons created by the act (which also originated with the 1661 act) were reduced to felonies by the

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11 & 12 Vict. c. 12, which also extended the 1795 act to Ireland. The act also stipulated that anyone found to have brought either the King, the Constitution or the government into contempt could be

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for a period of 7 years.J. Cannon, Parliamentary Reform 1640-1832 This clause was repealed by the

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. A later perspective given on the context surrounding its passage: The rest of the act was repealed by section 120 of, and schedule 10 to, the

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