Mutiny Act (1689) Quick reference
A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
... Act ( 1689 ) English legislation concerning the enforcement of military discipline, primarily over mutineers and deserters. The Declaration of Rights ( 1689 ) had declared illegal a standing army without parliamentary consent. To strengthen parliamentary control of the army, the 1689 Mutiny Act was enforced for one year only, theoretically giving Parliament the right of an annual review. In fact there were years ( 1689–1701 ) when it was not in force and both army and navy long retained their close connection with the sovereign. Only when the crown...
Mutiny Act Quick reference
A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
... Act Before the Glorious Revolution , James II had collected a large army on Hounslow Heath to intimidate London. The Bill of Rights in 1689 declared that a standing army in peacetime was illegal without parliamentary consent and the procedure was adopted of passing an annual Mutiny Act which authorized the imposition of military...
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J. A. Cannon
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
... Act . Before the Glorious Revolution , James II had collected a large army on Hounslow Heath to intimidate London. The Bill of Rights in 1689 declared that a standing army in peacetime was illegal without parliamentary consent and the procedure was adopted of passing an annual Mutiny Act which authorized the imposition of military discipline. The navy had been under statutory authority since 1661 and was less politically delicate since the fleet could hardly be used to threaten public liberties. In 1784 the Fox–North coalition toyed with the...
Mutiny Act
Revolution Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...was extensive from 1794 to 1796 and again from 1799 to 1801 [ see *famine ], and from 1795 there were riots as new regulations for registering for the militia were put into practice. When the first Scottish Militia Act ( 1797 ) was implemented, widespread protest flared up throughout Scotland. In 1797 there were *naval mutinies in Nore and Spithead, allegedly fuelled by London Corresponding Society literature, and there was an agreed policy of subversion of the army among some cells of the United Englishmen—the English counterpart to the United...
War Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...improvised, survivalist existence of the poor. There were occasions when the collective protest of the men resembled any crowd action of the time, as a conflict of popular beliefs and expectations against the demands of social superiors. Without the backing of the Mutiny Act, volunteer officers depended on their social authority and force of personality to impose military order. The volunteers never managed to span the yawning gulf in British society between the military and the civilian. Neither the army nor the militia drew more than a tiny...
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Invergordon mutiny (1931) Quick reference
A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
...mutiny ( 1931 ) A mutiny by sailors of the British Atlantic Fleet at the naval port on Cromarty Firth, Scotland. Severe pay cuts imposed by the National government led the ratings to refuse to go on duty. The cuts were slightly revised but foreign holders of sterling were alarmed; an Act suspending the gold standard was rushed through Parliament, but the value of the pound fell by more than a quarter. The mutiny ended and the ratings’ ringleaders were discharged from the...
