[388] Commons Journals, 18th February 1708.
[389] Cal. Treas. Papers, 18th November 1710.
[390] S. P., Dom., vol. xviii. p. 116.
[391] Deane.
[392] There is nothing more remarkable than the mortality among the British troops, in what town soever quartered, in the Peninsula. The complaints against the Portuguese will be found very bitter in the letters of Colonel Albert Borgard of the Artillery. S. P. Spain.
[393] Cal. Treas. Papers, 18th June and 18th November 1706.
[394] The regiment being in the Irish establishment the clothing was ordered in Ireland. When, after long delay, the clothing arrived at Bristol, it was discovered that, being of Irish manufacture, it could not be discharged without the Treasurer's warrant; which, of course, entailed the delay, appreciable enough in those days, of a journey to London and back.
[395] Cal. Treas. Papers, 18th November 1707.
[396] S. P., Dom., vol. viii. 81.
[397] S. P., Dom., vol. xvi. 92.