[267] Order for raising them. Miscellaneous Orders, 7th January 1756.
[268] The 53rd, 54th and 57th. Secretary's Common Letter Book, 12th May 1756.
[269] Loudoun to Fox, 19th and 29th August 1756.
[270] Miscellaneous Orders, 20th Sept. 1756. The regiments thus augmented were as follows, the regiments made from their second battalions being added in brackets. 3rd (61st), 4th (62nd), 8th (63rd), 11th (64th), 12th (65th), 19th (66th), 20th (67th), 23rd (68th), 24th (69th), 31st (70th), 32nd, 33rd, 34th, 36th, 37th.
[271] Order for raising them, Miscellaneous Orders, 4th Jan. 1757.
[272] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 25th Jan. 1757.
[273] Ibid., 22nd Dec. 1756.
[274] Ibid., 21st Sept. 1756, 29th Jan. 1757. The regiments were the 2nd batt. 1st Foot, 17th, 27th, 28th, 43rd, 46th, 55th Foot.
[275] Warrant Books, 1st May 1756, 4th March 1757.
[276] So I gather from the countless letters on the subject in Secretary's Common Letter Book, Jan. and Feb. 1757.