[407] Stair to Carteret, Oct. 1 12 1742.
[408] Warrant Books, 30th July 1741. More muskets were purchased abroad in 1750. Ibid. 26th Sept. 1750.
[409] Antea, p. 138.
[410] Warrant Books, vol. lvii. Jan.-April 1743. This system of local effort has a certain interest for the present, since Newcastle was one of the ports that applied for guns. Ibid. vol. lviii. p. 66. In the island of Jersey there were "parish-guns" kept in the parish churches, twenty-two of them in all, field-pieces. Ibid. vol. lxiii. p. 91. For the fortification of the dockyards, see Warrant Books, 12th April 1756.
[411] Warrant Books, 9th Oct. 1746.
[412] Warrant Books, 14th May 1757.
[413] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 20th May 1745.
[414] Warrant Books, vol. lvii. passim.
[415] Orders issued at Vilvorde, Oct. 10 21 , 1745. Miscellaneous Orders, under date.
[416] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 4th Oct. 1754.