The Project Gutenberg eBook of A History of the British Army Vol. II, by J. W. Fortescue.

[399] No British troops were engaged in this combat.

[400] Three battalions of British Guards, three battalions of British grenadiers, two of Highlanders, the Blues, and 1st Dragoon Guards.

[401] E.g. Westphalen, vi. 885, 886. He gives other instances also.

[402] Parl. History, Feb. 1741.

[403] Commons Journals, 17th Feb. 1743.

[404] E.g. Miscellaneous Orders, 21st March 1742.

[405] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 16th Aug., l0th Sept. 1742.

[406] The pease after five hours of boiling were still hard, and the pieces of beef that should have weighed four pounds and served as a ration for six men weighed but eighteen ounces. Secretary's Common Letter Book, 7th Oct. 1741.

[407] Stair to Carteret, Oct. 1 12 1742.

[408] Warrant Books, 30th July 1741. More muskets were purchased abroad in 1750. Ibid. 26th Sept. 1750.

[409] Antea, p. 138.

[410] Warrant Books, vol. lvii. Jan.-April 1743. This system of local effort has a certain interest for the present, since Newcastle was one of the ports that applied for guns. Ibid. vol. lviii. p. 66. In the island of Jersey there were "parish-guns" kept in the parish churches, twenty-two of them in all, field-pieces. Ibid. vol. lxiii. p. 91. For the fortification of the dockyards, see Warrant Books, 12th April 1756.

[411] Warrant Books, 9th Oct. 1746.

[412] Warrant Books, 14th May 1757.

[413] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 20th May 1745.

[414] Warrant Books, vol. lvii. passim.

[415] Orders issued at Vilvorde, Oct. 10 21 , 1745. Miscellaneous Orders, under date.

[416] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 4th Oct. 1754.

[417] Cumberland to Harrington, July 9 20 , 1745.

[418] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 10th August 1749.

[419] I have failed to discover this book. The words quoted are taken from a review of the work in the London Chronicle, 17th July 1760.

[420] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 8th and 10th Jan. 1761.

[421] Parl. History, Feb. 1750.

[422] An Order in Council of 11th July 1759 directs that men shall be enlisted for three years and for service within the kingdom only, so it is possible that the Government fell back simply on the latent power of the Crown.

[423] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 7th Jan. 1762.

[424] Lloyd's Evening Post, 26th Feb. 1762.

[425] London Morning Advertiser, 18th April 1744.

[426] Morning Advertiser, 25th June 1750. The woman served in all for seven years. Her portrait was engraved, and a copy hangs at this day in the hall of Chelsea Hospital.

[427] Parl. History, 12th April 1771.

[428] Miscellaneous Orders, 7th August 1759.

[429] Gazette, 18th August 1759.

[430] Conway complained much of the drafts from the independent companies sent to Germany, the men being weakly, young, and undersized (Secretary's Common Letter Book, 2nd June 1761; and see Correspondence of George III. with Lord North, vol. i. p. 265). The King ascribes the system to Charles Townsend, but it was begun before he became Secretary-at-War.

[431] Stair to Carteret, Nov. 3 14 , Dec. 4 15 1742, Jan. 7 18 1743; Carteret to Stair, Nov. 12 23 1742; Fawkenar to Newcastle, July 9 20 1745; Miscellaneous Orders, 28th June 1744; Secretary's Common Letter Book, 5th Sept. 1745.

[432] Thus other Light Dragoons besides the Fifteenth really partook in the glory of Emsdorff; one of the officers killed being, though formerly of the Fifteenth, an officer of the Seventeenth, who probably took a draft of his new regiment with him.

[433] Read's Weekly Journal, 9th March 1754; Secretary's Common Letter Book, 18th Jan. 1748, 29th Jan. 1757.

[434] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 26th March 1743, 12th June, 20th August, 2nd Sept. 1755.

[435] See Governor Crump's pathetic appeal to Lord Barrington, 1759. W. O., Orig. Corres., Guadeloupe (Record Office).

[436] Circular to Governors of colonies, 13th March 1756.

[437] Bouquet Papers, Add. M S., 21631. Bouquet's letters, 25th, 26th August, 10th, 29th September 1757.

[438] Governor Shirley to Secretary Fox, 8th March 1756; Loudoun to Pitt, 25th April 1757; Bouquet to Loudoun, 25th August 1757; Amherst to Barrington, 10th August 1759.

[439] Gage to Ellis, 9th Dec. 1763.

[440] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 10th Jan. 1761.

[441] The allowance was three men in every company of seventy, and four men in every company of one hundred. Secretary's Common Letter Book, 15th May 1758.

[442] Regulations for stoppages of dragoons and foot, Miscellaneous Orders, 28th June 1720, for answering the expenses formerly borne by the regiments.

DRAGOONS
IN QUARTERS
Sergeant—Full pay per week					£0	15	9
Deductions—Landlord for diet		£0	3	6
	Do. hay and straw	0	3	6
	Corn	0	1	5½
	Farrier	0	0	3½
		—————
					0	8	9
					—————
	Remains to be paid weekly				£0	7	0
					==========
Corporal and drummer—Full pay per week					£0	12	3
Deductions as above					0	8	9
					—————
	Remains to be paid weekly				£0	3	6
					==========
Dragoon—Full pay per week					£0	9	11
Deductions as above					0	8	9
					—————
	Remains to be paid weekly				£0	1	2
					==========
AT GRASS
Sergeant—Full pay per week					£0	15	9
Deductions—Landlord for diet					£0	3	6
	Do. grass	0	2	4
	Farrier	0	0	3½
	Riding master	0	0	7
	Grass money	0	1	10½
		—————			0	8	7
					—————
	Remains to be paid weekly				£0	7	2
					==========
Corporal and drummer—Full pay per week					£0	12	3
Deductions as above					0	8	7
					—————
	Remains to be paid weekly				£0	3	8
					==========
Dragoon—Full pay per week					£0	9	11
Deductions (slightly reduced for same items)					0	6	8½
					—————
	Remains to be paid weekly				£0	3	2½
	Of which there being paid to him				0	1	4
					—————
	There remains over				£0	1	10½
					==========
This 1s. 10½d. was commonly called grass money, out of which the non-commissioned officer or man might find all such necessaries as were not supplied according to regulations by the colonel, pay 2s. a year to the surgeon, and make good losses of exchange in the remittance of pay.
FOOT
Sergeant—Full pay per week					£0	7	0
	Paid weekly				0	6	0
					—————
	There remains				£0	1	0
					=========
Corporal—Full pay per week					£0	4	6
	Paid weekly				0	4	0
					—————
	There remains				£0	0	6
					=========
Private—Full pay per week					£0	3	6
	Paid weekly				0	3	0
					—————
	There remains				£0	0	6
					=========

From which remainders of pay the captain may deduct for shoes, stockings, gaiters, medicines, shaving, mending of arms, and losses by exchange; but nothing else except such things as may be lost or spoiled by the soldier's negligence.

These orders were confirmed again 27th April 1732.

[443] Craftsman, 12th April 1740. Conversation between Thomas Lobster, soldier, and John Tar, mariner.

[444] Commons Journal, 16th April 1740.

[445] Miscellaneous Orders, 2nd July 1753, Secretary's Common Letter Book, 17th July 1753, are the first instances in the official records.

[446] The Third Guards apparently were the first. Morning Advertiser, 29th March 1749.

[447] Hinde's Discipline of the Light Horse, 1760.

[448] Obverse—a forest with a road cut through it. Reverse—the confluence of the Ohio and Monongahela; Fort Duquêsne in flames; Forbes in his litter and the army in columns. Motto—Ohio Brittanica; consilio manuque. Bouquet Papers, Add. MS., 21644.

[449] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 19th, 23rd December 1746. 7th January 1747.

[450] "Dragoons are now the mode, so I doubt not that Ireland will follow Great Britain and petition for the demolition of jackboots." Ligonier to Chesterfield, Dec. 12 23 1740.

[451] Ligonier to Chesterfield, Dec. 12 23 1746. Secretary's Common Letter Book, 5th July 1758, 18th February 1760.

[452] Ligonier to Carteret, Oct. 31 Nov. 11 , Nov. 11 22 1743.

[453] Cumberland to Chesterfield, Sept. 16 27 1748. Miscellaneous Orders, 3rd February 1749.

[454] Read's Weekly Journal, 26th June 1756.

[455] H.O.M.E.B., 13th April, 18th November 1741.

[456] Ibid., 30th July 1744; Warrant Books, 26th October 1759.

[457] Two guns was the allowance for a battalion, and the detachment to serve them consisted of an officer, two non-commissioned officers, and twelve men. Warrant Books, 30th June 1758.

[458] H.O.M.E.B., 20th June 1757.

[459] Ibid., 4th May 1742, 16th November 1759. The three-pounders were mounted on two-wheeled "galloping carriages," drawn by three horses; the six-pounders required four if not five horses. Ibid., 12th August 1742.

[460] Warrant Books, 16th January 1741, 16th December 1756, 3rd March 1759.

[461] Two hundred and eight of all ranks.

[462] Warrant Books, 1st May 1756.

[463] Mauvillon.

[464] Bland's Military Discipline.

[465] Gentleman's Magazine, 24th April 1756.

[466] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 14th February 1760.

[467] Carlyle.

[468] Stair to Carteret, Jan. 7 18 1743; Carteret to Stair, March 20 31 1743.

[469] Stair to Carteret, May 18 29 1742.

[470] Daily Post, 13th August 1737.

[471] Return of the weight carried by a grenadier on the march:—

	lb.	oz.
Coat	5	2
Firelock with sling, etc.	11	0
Knapsack with contents, viz.: 2 shirts, 2 stocks, 2 pair stockings, 1 pair summer breeches, 1 pair shoes, brushes, and blackball	7	10
	———
	23	12
Other items, and 6 days' provisions.	39	7
	———
Total	63	3
	======

Drawn up by Lieut. Baillie, 1st Batt. 60th Foot, 28th Aug. 1762.

[472] Mauvillon.

[473] Archenholtz.

[474] Grose.

[475] Grose, from Rymer.

[476] Grose, from Harl. MS. 6844.

[477] Grose.

[478] Grose.

[479] Grose, from Rushworth.

[480] From Barriffe's Military Discipline.

[481] From Cal. S. P., Dom., May 1657.

[482] Commons Journals.

[483] Commons Journals.

[484] Commons Journals.

[485] Commons Journals.

[486] Rushworth himself thinks there is some error in this list.

[487] Commons Journals.

[488] Cal. S. P., Dom.

[489] Newspaper (reference lost).