[119] Home Office Military Entry Book, 9th May 1726.
[120] Weekly Journal, 26th April 1718.
[121] Ibid., 29th April 1718.
[122] Ibid., 30th October 1727.
[123] Weekly Journal, 6th July 1728.
[124] Fog's Weekly Journal, 22nd March 1729.
[125] Ibid., 11th November 1747.
[126] Newspapers, February 1732.
[127] Pitt's first commission bears date 9th February 1731, Cornet in Cobham's Horse (1st Dragoon Guards). As to the veterans, see London Daily Post, 19th January 1740, account of John Holland, who had served in all Cromwell's wars, also under Charles II. and James II., through all King William's wars, and through Marlborough's until 1708, when he was discharged. He, aged one hundred and five, and his wife, aged eighty-five, were found dead in their bed, supposed from cold, at Moyard, in Ireland. See also London Daily Post, 19th July 1736, account of an old cavalier, aged one hundred and twenty-three, still living at Ribchester, Lancs, who had had two horses shot under him and had been wounded in the arm at Edgehill. See also in Secretary's Common Letter Book, 15th February 1731, mention of William Hasland, aged one hundred and eleven, who had fought at Edgehill and with King William in Flanders, and was now granted a Chelsea pension of a shilling a day.
[128] Parl. Hist., 14th February 1739.