Parliament finally succeeded in acquiring a control over the army, and under a general bill, commonly called the Mutiny Act, laid down the restrictions which, whilst respecting the rights of the sovereign, were likewise to shield the liberty of the people.
32.
Various attempts were made to bring Threapwood within the normal administrative structure; by the Militia Acts of 1792 it was decreed to be in Worthenbury-though for the purposes of the militia only-and the Mutiny Act 1797 placed it in the parish of Malpas.
33.
Renovations took place at the hotel in 1839 . Later that year, the landlord, Charles Barrett, was found guilty under the Mutiny Act 1703 for failing to provide sufficient straw for two horses of the 12th Royal Lancers who were billeted at the hotel on 20 September.
34.
From 1689 to 1803, although in peace time the Mutiny Act was occasionally suffered to expire, a statutory power was given to the crown to make Articles of War to operate in the colonies and elsewhere beyond the seas in the same manner as those made by prerogative operated in time of war.
35.
The Mutiny Act legislated for offences in respect of which death or penal servitude could be awarded, and the Articles of War, while repeating those provisions of the act, constituted the direct authority for dealing with offences for which imprisonment was the maximum punishment as well as with many matters relating to trial and procedure.
36.
The calls of the party for members of the military to resist orders ( " If you must shoot, don't shoot the workers " ) caused the new Attorney General, Douglas Hogg, with the overt encouragement of the Home Secretary, William Joynson Hicks, to authorise a fresh prosecution under the Incitement to Mutiny Act.
37.
The British Mutiny Act of 1858 provided that the court-martial might, in addition to any other penalty, order deserters to be marked on the left side, 2 inches ( 5 cm ) below the armpit, with the letter "'D "', such letter to be not less than an inch long.
38.
In 1912 he was convicted under the Incitement to Mutiny Act 1797 of publishing an article in " The Syndicalist ", as an'Open Letter to British Soldiers', urging them to refuse to shoot at strikers ( later reprinted as a leaflet, " Don't Shoot " ); his prison sentence was quashed after public pressure.
39.
These defendants were charged with " conspiring between 1st January 1924 and 21st October 1925 to ( 1 ) utter and publish seditious libels; ( 2 ) to incite persons to commit breaches of the Incitement to Mutiny Act 1797; and ( 3 ) to endeavour to seduce from their duty persons serving in HM Forces to whom might come certain publications, to wit " Workers Weekly, " and others, and to incite them to mutiny ".
40.
On 25 July 1924, Campbell published an article entitled " An Open Letter to Fighting Forces, " which called on the armed forces to unite to form " the nucleus of an organisation that will prepare the whole of the soldiers, sailors and airmen, not merely to refuse to go to war, or to refuse to shoot strikers during industrial conflicts, but will make it possible for the workers, peasants and soldiers and airmen to go forward in a common attack upon the capitalists and smash capitalism for ever, and institute the reign of the whole working class . " The article, written anonymously by Harry Pollitt, together with a similar article published on 1 August 1924, was the basis for Campbell being charged under the Incitement to Mutiny Act of 1797.
