[129] Miscellaneous Orders (Guards and Garrisons), 12th June, 27th August 1739.
[130] Daily Post, 18th August 1739.
[131] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 19th June, 9th October 1739.
[132] Parl. Hist., 21st and 28th November 1739.
[133] Miscellaneous Orders (Guards and Garrisons), 29th November 1739. Millan gives the dates as the seven consecutive days from the 17th to the 22nd November.
[134] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 21st December 1739, 13th January 1740. Nine regiments turned over half of their men, and a tenth regiment turned over more than one-third.
[135] Cathcart to Newcastle, 1st April 1740.
[136] Cathcart to Newcastle, 17th June 1740. The regiment was the 27th Foot. Cathcart's description of the recruits is pithy: "They may be useful a year hence, but at present they have not strength to handle their arms." The fatuity of the proceedings cannot be appreciated unless it be remembered that the transfer of every man from one regiment to another entailed also a transfer of cash, and an adjustment of regimental accounts (on an extremely complicated system) between regiment and regiment, to say nothing of the primary evils of drafting.
[137] Cathcart to Newcastle, 25th July 1740.
[138] Ibid.