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Correspondence with the Pretender Act 1697
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The Correspondence with the Pretender Act 1697 (9 Will. 3. c. 1)[a] was an act of the Parliament of England which made it high treason to correspond with the deposed King James II.
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The act replaced the earlier Correspondence with Enemies Act 1691 (3 Will. & Mar. c. 13). When James II died and his son "James III" asserted his own claim to the throne, the Correspondence with James the Pretender (High Treason) Act 1701 (13 & 14 Will. 3. c. 3) was passed to replace this provision.
It was also treason under this act for a person who had been to France since 11 December 1688, or performed military service for France or for James II, to return to England without a licence to do so.
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Subsequent developments
The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 59).
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Notes
- This is the citation in The Statutes of the Realm.
- This is the citation in The Statutes at Large.
- Start of session.
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