A History of the British Army, Vol. 2 / First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War

by Sir J. W. Fortescue

[89] Collingwood's, afterwards disbanded.

[90] The first of the surviving regiments to go to the West Indies were the 12th, 22nd, and 27th.

[91] Drafted from the 22nd Foot on its return to England.

[92] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 25th October 1737.

[93] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 5th December 1730.

[94] Warrant Books, 18th December 1716. Secretary's Common Letter Book, 30th September 1742.

[95] Warrant Books (1723), vol. viii. p. 339.

[96] Governor Kane, Miscellaneous Orders (Guards and Garrisons), 1729.

[97] Cal. Treas. Papers (1714), p. 12.

[98] Jamaica, by a local Act, granted an allowance of provisions to all ranks. Antigua, in 1739, offered not only barracks, but light, fuel, and additional pay to all ranks, with a bounty or a free passage home, and a Chelsea pension to every man at the close of ten years' service.