SUMMARY PUNISHMENT TABLE.

"DESCRIPTION of PUNISHMENT to be awarded to NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS When embarked in Her MAJESTY'S SHIPS.

HER MAJESTY, having taken the said memorial into consideration, was pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to approve of what is therein proposed. And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are to give the necessary. directions herein accordingly.

C. L. PEEL.

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Council.

PART III.

MISCELLANEOUS ENACTMENTS, REGULATIONS AND FORMS.

Extract from the Petition of Right, 3 Chas. I, c. 1 (1627).

"To the Kings most excellent Majestie.

"Humbly shew unto our soveraigne lord the King the lords spirituall and temporall and comons in Parliament assembled,

that

"Whereas alsoe by authoritie of Parliament in the five and twentith year of the raigue of King Edward the Third it is declared and enacted that no man should be forejudged of life or limbe against the forme of the Great Charter and the lawe of the land, and by the said Great Charter, and other the lawes and statutes of this your realme no man ought to be adjuged to death but by the lawes established in this your realme, either by the customes of the said realme or by Acts of Parliament. And whereas no offendor of what kinde soever is exempted from the p'ceedings to be used and punishments to be inflicted by the lawes and statutes of this your realme, neverthelesse of late tyme divers comissions under your Majesties greate seale have issued forth, by which certaine p'sons have been assigned and appointed comissioners with power and authoritie to p'ceed within the land according to the justice of martial lawe against such souldiers or marriners or other dissolute p'sons joyning with them as should comitt any murther robbery felony mutiny or other outrage or misdemeanor whatsoever, and by such sumary course and order as is agreeable to martial lawe and as is used in armies in tyme of war to p'ceed to the tryall and condemnacion of such offenders, and them to cause to be executed and putt to death according to the lawe martiall.

"By p'text whereof some of your Majesties subjects have been by some of the said comissioners put to death, when and where, if by the lawes and statutes of the land they had deserved death, by the same lawes and statutes alsoe they might and by no other ought to have byn judged and executed.

And alsoe sundrie greivous offendors by colour thereof clayming an exempcion have escaped the punishments due to them by the lawes and statutes of this your realme, by reason that divers of your officers and ministers of justice have unjustlie refused or forborne to p'ceed against such offendors according to the same lawes and statutes upon p'tence that the said offendors were punishable onelie by martial law and by authoritie of such comissions as aforesaid. Which comissions and all other of like nature are wholly and directlie contrary to the said lawes and statutes of this your realme.

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PART III.

MISCELLANEOUS ENACTMENTS, REGULATIONS AND FORMS.

Extract from the Petition of Right, 3 Chas. I, c. 1 (1627).

"To the Kings most excellent Majestie.

"Humbly shew unto our soveraigne lord the King the lords spirituall and temporall and comons in Parliament assembled, that

"Whereas alsoe by authoritie of Parliament in the five and twentith year of the raigue of King Edward the Third it is declared and enacted that no man should be forejudged of life or limbe against the forme of the Great Charter and the lawe of the land, and by the said Great Charter, and other the lawes and statutes of this your realme no man ought to be adjuged to death but by the lawes established in this your realme, either by the customes of the said realme or by Acts of Parliament. And whereas no offendor of what kinde soever is exempted from the p'ceedings to be used and punishments to be inflicted by the lawes and statutes of this your realme, neverthelesse of late tyme divers comissions under your Majesties greate seale have issued forth, by which certaine p'sons have been assigned and appointed comissioners with power and authoritie to p'ceed within the land according to the justice of martial lawe against such souldiers or marriners or other dissolute p'sons joyning with them as should comitt any murther robbery felony mutiny or other outrage or misdemeanor whatsoever, and by such sumary course and order as is agreeable to martial lawe and as is used in armies in tyme of war to p'ceed to the tryall and condemnacion of such offenders, and them to cause to be executed and putt to death according to the lawe martiall.

"By p'text whereof some of your Majesties subjects have been by some of the said comissioners put to death, when and where, if by the lawes and statutes of the land they had deserved death, by the same lawes and statutes alsoe they might and by no other ought to have byn judged and executed.

And alsoe sundrie greivous offendors by colour thereof clayming an exempcion have escaped the punishments due to them by the lawes and statutes of this your realme, by reason that divers of your officers and ministers of justice have unjustlie refused or forborne to p'ceed against such offendors according to the same lawes and statutes upon p'tence that the said offendors were punishable onelie by martial law and by authoritie of such comissions as aforesaid. Which comissions and all other of like nature are wholly and directlie contrary to the said lawes and statutes of this your realme.

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