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Correspondence with Enemies Act 1691
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Exporting of any Arms, &c. into France, High Treason.
For preventing of Traiterous Correspondence and Co[m]merce with the French King or his Subjects and supplying them with Warlike or other Stores or Co[m]modities by means of which they may be any way aided or comforted in carrying on their War against Their Majesties Be it declared and enacted by the King and Queens most excellent Majesties by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Co[m]mons in this present Parliament assembled and [X1by] the authority of the same That if dureing the present War between Their Majesties and the French King any person or persons shall send or load or transport or deliver or cause to be sent or loaden or transported or delivered unto or for the Use of the said French King or any of his Subjects residing within his Dominions or any Towne or Territory in his possession or into or for any Port or Place within his said Dominions any Arms Ordnance Powder Bullets Pitch Tarr Hemp Masts Cordage Iron Coales Lead or Salt-Peter that every person or persons so as aforesaid offending being legally thereof convicted or attainted by due course of Law shall be deemed declared and adjudged to be a Traytor or Traytors and shall suffer Pains of Death and alsoe lose and forfeit as in cases of High Treason.
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