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Sedition Act 1661

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V.Treasons and Offences within this Act to be proved by Two Witnesses viva voce.

[X1Provided always and be it Enacted That no person or persons shall be indicted arraigned condemned convicted or attainted for any of the Treasons or Offences aforesaid unlesse the same Offender or Offenders be thereof accused by the Testimony and deposition of two lawfull and credible Witnesses upon Oath which Witnesses at the time of the said Offender or Offenders arraignment shall be brought in person before him or them face to face and shall openly avow and maintain upon Oath what they have to say against him or them concerning the Treason or Offences contained in the said Indictment unles the party or parties arraigned shall willingly without violence confess the same]

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X1annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule.

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