Mutiny Act 1701

XXIX. Officer or Soldier, without Leave of Lord of Manor, destroying Game;

Penalty £5 on Officer; 10s. on Commanding Officer for Soldier offending; Refusing to pay Penalties,; Punishment.

And forasmuch as the Game has of late Years been very much destroyed by the Officers and Soldiers in or near such Places as they have been quartered in Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if from and after the said Twentieth Day of February One thousand seven hundred and one any Officer or Soldier shall without the Leave of the Lord of the Mannor under his Hand and Seal first had and obtained take kill or destroy any Hare Coney Phesant Partridge Pidgeon or any [X1 other] Sort of Fowl or Poultry or Fish or His Majesties Game, within the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed and upon Complaint thereof shall be upon Oath of One or [X2 Two] more Witness or Witnesses convicted before any Justice or Justices of the Peace who is and are hereby impowered and authorized to hear and determine the same (that is to say) every Officer so offending shall for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of Five Pounds to be distributed amongst the Poor of the Place where such Offence shall be committed And every Officer commanding in Chief upon the Place for every such Offence committed by any Soldier under his Command shall forfeit the Sum of Ten Shillings to be paid and distributed in like Manner as aforesaid And in case upon such Conviction made by the Justices of the Peace and Demand thereof also made by the Constable or Overseer of the Poor such Officer shall refuse or neglect and not within Two Days pay the said respective Penalties such Officer so refusing or neglecting shall and is hereby declared to have forfeited his Commission and his said Commission is hereby made null and void.

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.

X2 O. omits.