[CHAP. VIII.]
The allowances made to the respective ranks on the Staff of the Army, which was employed in Spain and Portugal, and in which officers of Marines shared, when upon this service, and when acting in any one of the undermentioned capacities, were arranged by her Majesty in Council, previous to the expedition.
| General of the Horse and Commander in Chief per day | £10 | 0 | 0 |
| Three Aids de Camp, each 10s | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| Lieutenant General | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Two Aids de Camp, each 10s | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Two Major Generals, 2l each | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| One Aid de Camp to each, 10s | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Three Brigadiers, each 1l 10s | 4 | 10 | 0 |
| Three Majors of Brigade, each 10s | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| Quarter-master General | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Adjutant General | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Judge Advocate | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Pay-master | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| Secretary to Commander in Chief | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Chaplain to Commander in Chief | 0 | 6 | 8 |
| Physician to Commander in Chief | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Chirurgeon to Commander in Chief | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Provost Marshall 5s and 6 men, each 3s | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Waggon Master | 0 | 3 | 0 |
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| Daily amount | £32 | 8 | 2 |
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And for Contingencies upon Account, the
sum of £6000.
"By her Majesty's command,
"Godolphin."
Established 1st June, 1702.
The death of the Lord High Admiral, in a retrospective view, also produced some trivial reforms in the constitution of the Marine Regiments, which were accomplished under the auspices of the same ministry that had framed their original regulations. Some existing abuses were, I believe, the pretext for this change, as the Commissaries, after the decease of the Royal Consort, were enjoined to transmit their accounts, and otherwise correspond with the Secretary at War, upon the subject of these establishments. Many omissions seem to have prevailed in making regular returns from the different detachments, necessarily extended over every quarter of the globe, which first arising from individual neglect, ultimately retarded the proceedings of the Commissioners, who were appointed to investigate the national expenditure, at the close of the war. The following is their report upon this head:
"Soon after the commencement of our Commission, we required Mr. Whitfield, late Pay-master of the Marines, to lay the accompts of these Regiments before us; which after many delays he did, but in a very imperfect manner.