[477] H. O. M. E. B., 16th April 1703. April 1704 (arms of Evans's regiment).
[478] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 12th June 1706.
[479] H. O. M. E. B., 14th October 1704. Commons Journals, 19th March 1707.
[480] Parker. See the account of the meeting between the Royal Irish of England and of France at Malplaquet.
[481] Millner. 30th May, 1707.
[482] The Duke of Marlborough's new exercise of firelocks and bayonets, by an officer in the Foot Guards. London, N.D.
[483] The most appalling sentence was that given to a guardsman at home who had slaughtered his colonel's horse for lucre of the hide—seven distinct floggings of eighteen hundred lashes apiece, or twelve thousand six hundred lashes in all. His life was despaired of after the first flogging, and the Queen remitted the remaining six. Secretary's Common Letter Book, 12th Jan. 1712.
[484] Newspapers, 3rd March 1703.
[485] Despatches, vol. iii. pp. 309, 335, 461; S. P., Dom., vol. xix. 23.
[486] The testimony to these exertions is to be found only in Hare's Journal, but it is emphatic.