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 Ch. 13. 3. regard to the privileges conferred on ailors, they are pretty much the ame with thoe conferred on oldiers; with regard to relief, when maimed, or wounded, or uperannuate, either by county rates, or the royal hopital at Greenwich; with regard alo to the exercie of trades, and the power of making nuncupative tetaments: and, farther, no eaman aboard his majety's hips can be arreted for any debt, unles the ame be worn to amount to at leat twenty pounds; though, by the annual mutiny act, a oldier may be arreted for a debt which extends to half that value, but not to a les amount.