Disbanded Soldiers setting up their Trades, freed from Arrest, and their Goods from Seizure, in respect of Debts due at the Time of their first enlisting.
And for the better enabling and encourageing the said disbanded Soldiers (other than Commission Officers) to [X1and] sett up [X2and exercise] their Trades in such manner as aforesaid It is hereby further enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That such of the said disbanded Soldiers (other than Commission Officers) as shall soe sett up and exercise their Trades as aforesaid with their Stock and Tooles used in or about the exerciseing their said Trades shall be and are hereby freed for the space of Three Yeares to be accounted from the First Day of May One thousand six hundred ninety nine from haveing their Persons arrested or imprisoned or their said Stock or Tooles seized distrained or taken in Execution for any Debt or Moneys which was or were owing by them either or any of them at the time when they respectively were first listed into His Majesties Service Any thing to the contrary notwithstanding.