{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-ships-act-1664/section-III",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-ships-act-1664/section-III.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/16/6",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Ships Act 1664",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-ships-act-1664",
  "path": "section/III",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "III",
  "heading": "Ships under 200 Tons not fighting; Penalty.",
  "text": "And be it further enacted That if the Master of any English Shipp or Vessell though not of the Burthen of Two hundred Tunns or mounted with Sixteene Gunns as aforesaid shall yeild his said Shipp unto any Turkish Shipp Pirate or Sea Rover (not haveing at the least double his number of Gunns) without fighting every such Master shall be lyeable to all and every the penaltyes in this Act contained.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/16/6/section/III",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:30:02.327112+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}