{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-XII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-XII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMarSess2/2/6",
  "legislation_title": "Mutiny Act 1690",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690",
  "path": "section/XII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XII",
  "heading": "Persons falsely mustered, or offering so to be;",
  "text": "Punishment.; Lending Horse not belonging to Troop for Muster; Penalty.\nAnd alsoe Bee it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person shall be falsly mustered or offer himselfe falsly and deceitfully to be mustered every such Person upon Proofe thereof made upon Oath by two Witnesses before the next Justice of Peace of the Country where such Muster shall be made and every such Person soe falsly mustered or offering to be falsly mustered upon Certificate thereof in Writeing under the Hand of the Co[m]missary of the Musters or Chiefe Magistrate as aforesaid made to such Justice of the Peace the said Justice is thereupon and is hereby authorized and required to committ such Offender to the House of Correction there to remaine for the space of Ten dayes and to have his Eare cutt off by the Gaoler or Keeper of such House of Correction And if any Person shall wittingly or willingly lend or furnish a Horse to be mustered which shall not truely belong to the Trooper or Troope soe mustered the said Horse soe falsly mustered shall be forfeited to the Informer if the same doth belong to the Person lending or furnishing the said Horse or otherwise the Person lending or furnishing the said Horse shall forfeit the Summe of Twenty pounds upon Oath made by two Witnesses before the next Justice of the Peace.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMarSess2/2/6/section/XII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:25:53.726937+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}