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Billeting Act 1679
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XXXII.No Officer, &c. to quarter Soldiers on any Subject without his Consent, and any Subject may refuse to quarter Soldiers.
And whereas by the Lawes and Customes of this Realme the Inhabitants thereof cannot be compelled against their wills to receive Souldiers into their Houses and to sojourne them there Bee it declared and enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That noe Officer Military or Civill nor any other person whatever shall from henceforth presume to place quarter or billet any Souldier or Souldiers upon any Subject or Inhabitant of this Realme of any degree quality or profession whatever without his consent And that it shall and may be lawfull for every such Subject and Inhabitant to refuse to sojourne or quarter any Souldier or Souldiers notwithstanding any Command Order X1 or Billetting whatever.
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Warrant O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
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