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Sedition Act 1661
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VII.Proviso for Trial and Pardon of Peers, &c.
[X1Provided alwaies and be it Ordained and Enacted That no Peer of this Realm shall be tried for any offence against this Act but by his Peers and further That every Peer who shall be convicted of any offence against this Act after such conviction be disabled during his life to sit in Parliament unlesse His Majesty shall graciously be pleased to pardon him And if His Majesty shall grant his pardon to any Peer of this Realm or Commoner convicted of any offence against this Act after such Pardon granted the Peer or Commoner so pardoned shall be restored to all intents and purposes as if he had never beene convicted Any thing in this Law to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.]
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X1annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule.
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