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Section VII Proviso where the Master is forced by his Men to yield.

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Provided alwayes That if any Shipp shall have beene yeilded as aforesaid contrary to the will and endeavour of the Master or Commander by the disobedience of the Marriners, testifyed by their haveing laid violent hands on him. That in such case the Master or Commander shall not be lyable to the Sentence of Incapacity as aforesaid, Nor to any Action for the Losses sustained by the Merchants unlesse he shall have received backe from the takers thereof his Shipp, or some Recompence Gift or Reward as aforesaid.