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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1692/section-XVII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1692/section-XVII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/4/13",
  "legislation_title": "Mutiny Act 1692",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1692",
  "path": "section/XVII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XVII",
  "heading": "Petition of Right by 3 Car. I. recited.",
  "text": "31 Car. 11. c. I. recited;Constables, &c. may during the War quarter Officers and Soldiers upon Inns, &c; Not to be more Billets than Soldiers; Billetting in private Houses without Consent of Owner; Remedy; Military Officer threatening Constable, &c; Punishment.\nAnd whereas by the Petition of Right in the Third yeare of King Charles the First it is enacted and declared That the People of this Land are not by the Laws to be burthen'd with the sojourning of Soldiers against their Wills And by a Clause in one Act of Parliament made in the One and thirtieth yeare of the Reigne of King Charles the Second for granting a Supply to His Majestie of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and sixty two pounds seventeen shillings and three pence for paying and disbanding the Forces it is declared and enacted That no Officer Military or Civil nor any other Person whatsoever shall from thenceforth presume to place quarter or billet any Soldier or Soldiers upon any Subject or Inhabitant of this Realm of any degree quality or profession whatsoever without his consent and that it shall and may be lawfull for any such Subject Sojourner and Inhabitant to refuse to quarter auy Soldier or Soldiers notwithstanding any Co[m]mand Order Warrant or Billetting whatsoever But forasmuch as att this present time there is a War against France whereby there is occasion for the marching of many Regiments Troops and Companys in several parts of this Kingdom towards the Sea costs and otherwise Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for and dureing the continuance of this Act and no longer it shall and may be lawfull for the Constables Tythingmen Headboroughs and other chief Officers and Magistrates of Cities Townes and Villages and other Places in the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Towne of Berwick upon Tweed and for no others to quarter and billet the Officers and Soldiers in their Majesties Service in Inns Liverie Stables Alehouses Victualling houses and all Houses selling Brandy Strong Waters Cyder or Metheglin by Retail to be drunk in their Houses and no other and in no private Houses whatsoever nor shall any more Billets att any time be ordered then there are effective Soldiers present to be quartered And if any Constable Tythingman or such like Officer or Magistrate as aforesaid shall presume or billet any such Officer or Soldier in any private House without the consent of the Owner or Occupier in such case such Owner or Occupier shall have his or their remedy att Law against such Magistrate or Officer for the damage that such Owner or Occupier shall sustain thereby And if any Military Officer shall take upon him to quarter Soldiers otherwise then is limitted and allowed by this Act or shall use or offer any menace or compulsion to or upon any Mayors Constables or other Civil Officers before mentioned tending to deter or discourage any of them from performing any part of their Duty hereby required or appointed such Military Officers shall for every such Offence being thereof convicted before any two or more Justices of the Peace next adjoyning by the Oath of two credible Witnesses and the said Justices Certificate thereof to the Judge Advocate who is hereby obliged to certifie the same to the next Court Martial upon such Certificate be deemed and taken to be ipso facto cashiered and shall be utterly disabled to have or hold any Military Employment within this Kingdom or in Their Majesties Service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "O. omits."
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X2",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: to quarter O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/4/13/section/XVII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:24:20.310261+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."
}