An Act to empower the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland to apprehend, and detain for a limited Time, such Persons as he or they shall suspect of conspiring against Her Majesty's Person and Government.
WHEREAS a treasonable Conspiracy now unfortunately exists in Ireland: Therefore, for the better Preservation of Her Majesty's most sacred Person, and for securing the Peace, the Laws, and Liberties of this Kingdom, be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: