[428] Ibid., 18th October 1707.
[429] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 25th, 27th July; 17th August; October 1705.
[430] See, for instance, the complaint of a regiment which had been paid in unsaleable tallies. Several officers had been arrested for debts contracted by their men for want of their pay. Secretary's Common Letter Book, 18th April 1711.
[431] Such a Board, or rather intermittent meeting of Generals, had been established in January 1706. For the report of St. John and Churchill and the new regulations, see Miscellaneous Orders, 4th February 1706; 14th January 1708.
[432] I can adduce only one instance in proof, that of the Duke of Schomberg, who offered £2 a man to old soldiers to join his regiment of dragoons (Newspaper Advertisement, 27th July 1705), but the fact is indubitable.
[433] There are two or three memoirs of her, attributed to Defoe and others.
[434] See Steele's Tatler (No. 87), 29th Oct. 1709.
[435] S. P., Dom. (11th September 1705), vol. vi.
[436] They went on guard once and were put in the guard-room once, that their names might appear on the list of prisoners.
[437] Commons Journals, 5th, 13th, 22nd February; 8th, 26th May 1711.