Billeting Act 1679

XXVIII. Commission Officers, &c. exercising Command over disbanded Men, or endeavouring to continue any of the said disbanded Regiments together;

Premunire 16 R. II. c. 5. and disabled to sue, and otherwise as herein mentioned.

And bee it further enacted That all and every Commission Officer and Officers who shall exercise any power or authority over the Souldiers in their respective Regiments Troops or Companies after such Officer or Officers shall be paid off and disbanded by the said Commissioners or any one or more of them or by any person or persons by them or any one or more of them thereunto authorized and every person or persons that shall advise frame contrive countersigne or putt in execution any Proclamation Commission Act Order or Command whatsoever for continueing together any of the said Regiments Troops or Companies or parts of Regiments Troops or Companies after they shall be paid off and disbanded as aforesaid he or they soe offending shall incurr and sustaine the paines penalties and forfeitures limitted ordained and provided in and by the Statute of Provision and Premunire made in the Sixteenth Yeare of King Richard the Second and shall from thenceforth be disabled dureing his life to sue or impleade any Person in any Action reall or personall or to make any Gift Grant Conveyance or other Disposition of any his Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods or Chattells which he hath to his owne use either by Act executed in his life time or by his last Will or otherwise or to take any Gift Conveyance or Legacie to his owne use and none of the said Souldiers or Non Commissioned Officers paid off and disbanded as aforesaid shall after the space of Fower and twenty houres after such disbanding continue together above Ten in Company.