[19] Even so, however, regiments of dragoons did not exceed 332, nor battalions of infantry 655 men.
[20] Parl. Hist.
[21] Parl. Hist. 1717.
[22] Gazette, 11th January 1714-15. Miscellaneous Orders (Guards and Garrisons), 30th June 1715. Secretary's Common Letter Book, 17th October 1724, 29th June 1725.
[23] Commons Journals, vol. xviii. p. 708, anno 1718. I may mention that in Article 29 is the first use of the word reveillé that I have encountered in an English official work.
[24] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 5th April 1716.
[25] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 5th November 1725, February 1726.
[26] I am aware that he is popularly supposed to have been in the Blues, but his first commission was in the 1st or King's Dragoon Guards, then the Second Horse. Hence the "terrible cornet of Horse."
[27] Parl. Hist., vol. xiv. p. 479. The succession of Secretaries-at-War during this period was as follows: William Pulteney, 1714; James Craggs, April 1717; Robert Pringle, May 1718; George Treby, December 1718; Henry Pelham, April 1724; Sir William Strickland, May 1730; Sir William Yonge, May 1735.
[28] Mountains of such letters, absolutely worthless, are preserved in the Record Office. H. O. Mil. Papers.