[418] S. P., Dom. (15th September 1708), vol. xiv.
[419] E.g., Secretary's Common Letter Book, 21st September and 23rd December 1708.
[420] S. P., Dom., (undated), vol. x.
[421] Ibid. (20th February 1711), vol. xviii.; (14th April 1712), vol. xxii.
[422] Lord Lansdowne. Secretary's Common Letter Book, 12th March 1712. The question had originally been brought up a year before.
[423] Ibid., 23rd April 1711.
[424] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 6th July 1707.
[425] Four regiments destined for the Peninsula in 1711 were kept waiting three months for their ships at Cork. In that time they lost 500 men by desertion, probably not much less than a fourth of their numbers.
[426] A clause against concealment of deserters was inserted in the Mutiny Act of 1708-9.
[427] Abundant instances in Secretary's Common Letter Book.