{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1696/section-VI",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1696/section-VI.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/8-9/13",
  "legislation_title": "Mutiny Act 1696",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1696",
  "path": "section/VI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VI",
  "heading": "Recital of 4 W. & M. c. 13.",
  "text": "§ 22; and that Inconveniences had arisen; Innkeeper, &c. not obliged to provide Meat, &c. for Soldiers (except on March) on tendering Money, &c. to Soldier as herein mentioned.\nAnd whereas by an Act made in the Fourth Yeare of the Reigne of our present Sovereigne Lord King William and the late Queen Mary intituled An Act for punishing Officers and Soldiers who shall mutiny or desert Their Majesties Service and for punishing False Musters and for Payment of Quarters and continued by other subsequent Acts Itt was therein amongst other Things enacted That the Subsistance Money for one Light Horsemans Diet and Small Beer and Hay and Straw for his Horse should not exceed per diem One Shilling nor for one Dragoons Diet and small Beer and Hay and Straw for his Horse per Diem Nine Pence nor for One Foot Soldiers Diet and Small Beer per diem Foure Pence And whereas several Inconveniences do daily happen in Inns and Victualling Houses where Soldiers are quartered and subsisted with Meat and drink by the Innkeepers & Victuallers to their great Prejudice and to the hindrance of their Guests and Customers from using their Houses For the p[re]venting the same for the future be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the Tenth Day of April One thousand six hundred ninety seven no Innholder or Innholders Victualler or Victuallers Person or Persons whatsoever on whom such Soldier or Soldiers shall or may by Law be quartered shall be obliged or required to provide Meat or other Victuals for any such Soldier or Soldiers (except in their March onely) if the said Person or Persons on whom hee or they shall be quartered as aforesaid shall give or tender to each particular Horseman the Su[m]m of Six Pence per diem for his Subsistance in Meat onely to every Dragoon the Su[m]m of Foure Pence per diem for his Subsistance in Meat onely and to every Foot Soldier the Su[m]m of Foure Pence per diem for his Subsistance in Meat besides Candle and the Use of his Fire for dressing his Meat.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/8-9/13/section/VI",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:19.757905+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."
  }
}