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BILLETING , the providing of quarters (i.e. See also:board and lodgings) for soldiers (see See also:BILLET, 1). Troops have at all times made use of the shelter and See also:local resources afforded by the villages on or near their See also:line of See also:march. The See also:historical See also:interest of billeting in See also:England begins with the repeated petitions against it in the reigns of See also:Elizabeth, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I. and See also:Charles I., which culminated, in the See also:Petition of Right. The billeting of troops was superintended by a See also:civil See also:magistrate of the See also:district to which the troops were sent or through which they passed. The magistrate, who acted under an See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order from the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, too often spared his See also:friends at the expense of his See also:political or See also:personal opponents. Owing to the abuses to which the See also:system led, it was declared illegal by the Petition of Right 1628, and again by an See also:act of 1679. During the reign of James II., however, orders were frequently issued for billeting, and one of the grievances in the See also:Bill of Rights was the quartering of soldiers contrary to See also:law. On the organization of a See also:standing See also:army after the revolution it was necessary to make legal See also:provision for billeting owing to the deficiency of barrack See also:accommodation, which sufficed only for 5000 men. Accordingly, the See also:Mutiny Act 1689 authorized billeting among the various innkeepers and victuallers throughout the See also:kingdom. This See also:statute was renewed annually from 1689 to 1879, when the Army Discipline Act, consolidating the provisions of the Mutiny Act, was passed. This statute was replaced by the Army Act 1881 (renewed annually by a" commencement " act), which contains the provisions by which billeting is now regulated. But See also:modern conditions have practically dispensed with the See also:necessity for billeting; there is extensive barrack accommodation in most parts of the See also:United Kingdom, and, moreover, troops are entrained or sent by See also:sea when the distance to be covered is more than one See also:day's march. In See also:Scotland the provisions as to billeting were assimilated to those in England in 1857, and in See also:Ireland in 1879. The Army (See also:Annual) Act 1909 provided for the billeting of the Territorial forces in See also:case of See also:national emergency, on occupiers of any See also:kind of See also:house at the discretion of the See also:chief officer of See also:police.
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