Mutiny Act 1692

XII. Person offering to be falsely mustered.

Certificate; Commited to House of Correction; Lending Horses to Muster not belonging to Troop; Penalty £20.

And alsoe be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Person shall be falsly mustered or offer himselfe falsly and deceitfully to be mustered every such Person upon proof thereof made upon Oath by Two Witnesses before the next Justice of the Peace of the County where such Muster shall be made and every such Person so falsly mustered or offering to be falsly mustered upon Certificate thereof in Writing under the Hand of the Commissary of the Musters or Chief Magistrate as aforesaid made to such Justice of the Peace the said Justice is thereupon and is hereby authorized and required to committ such Offender to the House of Correction there to remaine for the space of Ten days and to have his Ear cut off by the Goaler or Keeper of such House of Correction And if any Person shall wittingly or willingly lend or furnish a Horse to be mustered which shall not truly belong to the Trooper or Troop so mustered the said Horse so falsly mustered shall be forfeited to the Informer if the same doth belong to the Person lending or furnishing the said Horse or otherwise the Person lending or furnishing the said Horse shall forfeit the sum of Twenty pounds upon Oath made by Two Witnesses before the next Justice of the Peace.