Treason Act 1351
1351 c. 2
Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)
Act modified (26.3.2015) by Succession to the Crown Act 2013 (c. 20), s. 5(2), Sch. para. 1; S.I. 2015/894, art. 2
Statute the Fifth.
II Declaration what Offences shall be adjudged Treason. Compassing the Death of the King, Queen, or their eldest Son; violating the Queen, or the King’s eldest Daughter unmarried, or his eldest Son’s Wife; levying War; adhering to the King’s Enemies; killing the Chancellor, Treasurer, or Judges in Execution of their Duty.
ITEM, Whereas divers Opinions have been before this Time X2in what Case Treason 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 X3Queen or of their eldest Son and Heir; or if a Man do violate the King’s X3Companion, or the King’s eldest Daughter unmarried, or the Wife (X4) 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 X5probably attainted of open Deed by X6the People of their Condition: . . . F1, 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, X7that ought to be judged Treason which extends to our Lord the King, and his Royal Majesty: . . . F2
The original text of this Act was not in modern English. The traditional translation, with obsolete characters modernised, appears first. The original text (as an image) appears second.