[437] Bouquet Papers, Add. M S., 21631. Bouquet's letters, 25th, 26th August, 10th, 29th September 1757.
[438] Governor Shirley to Secretary Fox, 8th March 1756; Loudoun to Pitt, 25th April 1757; Bouquet to Loudoun, 25th August 1757; Amherst to Barrington, 10th August 1759.
[439] Gage to Ellis, 9th Dec. 1763.
[440] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 10th Jan. 1761.
[441] The allowance was three men in every company of seventy, and four men in every company of one hundred. Secretary's Common Letter Book, 15th May 1758.
[442] Regulations for stoppages of dragoons and foot, Miscellaneous Orders, 28th June 1720, for answering the expenses formerly borne by the regiments.
| DRAGOONS | |||||||
| IN QUARTERS | |||||||
| Sergeant—Full pay per week | £0 | 15 | 9 | ||||
| Deductions—Landlord for diet | £0 | 3 | 6 | ||||
| Do. hay and straw | 0 | 3 | 6 | ||||
| Corn | 0 | 1 | 5½ | ||||
| Farrier | 0 | 0 | 3½ | ||||
| ————— | |||||||
| 0 | 8 | 9 | |||||
| ————— | |||||||
| Remains to be paid weekly | £0 | 7 | 0 | ||||
| ========== | |||||||
| Corporal and drummer—Full pay per week | £0 | 12 | 3 | ||||
| Deductions as above | 0 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| ————— | |||||||
| Remains to be paid weekly | £0 | 3 | 6 | ||||
| ========== | |||||||
| Dragoon—Full pay per week | £0 | 9 | 11 | ||||
| Deductions as above | 0 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| ————— | |||||||
| Remains to be paid weekly | £0 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| ========== | |||||||
| AT GRASS | |||||||
| Sergeant—Full pay per week | £0 | 15 | 9 | ||||
| Deductions—Landlord for diet | £0 | 3 | 6 | ||||
| Do. grass | 0 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| Farrier | 0 | 0 | 3½ | ||||
| Riding master | 0 | 0 | 7 | ||||
| Grass money | 0 | 1 | 10½ | ||||
| ————— | 0 | 8 | 7 | ||||
| ————— | |||||||
| Remains to be paid weekly | £0 | 7 | 2 | ||||
| ========== | |||||||
| Corporal and drummer—Full pay per week | £0 | 12 | 3 | ||||
| Deductions as above | 0 | 8 | 7 | ||||
| ————— | |||||||
| Remains to be paid weekly | £0 | 3 | 8 | ||||
| ========== | |||||||
| Dragoon—Full pay per week | £0 | 9 | 11 | ||||
| Deductions (slightly reduced for same items) | 0 | 6 | 8½ | ||||
| ————— | |||||||
| Remains to be paid weekly | £0 | 3 | 2½ | ||||
| Of which there being paid to him | 0 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| ————— | |||||||
| There remains over | £0 | 1 | 10½ | ||||
| ========== | |||||||
| This 1s. 10½d. was commonly called grass money, out of which the non-commissioned officer or man might find all such necessaries as were not supplied according to regulations by the colonel, pay 2s. a year to the surgeon, and make good losses of exchange in the remittance of pay. | |||||||
| FOOT | |||||||
| Sergeant—Full pay per week | £0 | 7 | 0 | ||||
| Paid weekly | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||||
| ————— | |||||||
| There remains | £0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| ========= | |||||||
| Corporal—Full pay per week | £0 | 4 | 6 | ||||
| Paid weekly | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| ————— | |||||||
| There remains | £0 | 0 | 6 | ||||
| ========= | |||||||
| Private—Full pay per week | £0 | 3 | 6 | ||||
| Paid weekly | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| ————— | |||||||
| There remains | £0 | 0 | 6 | ||||
| ========= | |||||||
From which remainders of pay the captain may deduct for shoes, stockings, gaiters, medicines, shaving, mending of arms, and losses by exchange; but nothing else except such things as may be lost or spoiled by the soldier's negligence.
These orders were confirmed again 27th April 1732.
[443] Craftsman, 12th April 1740. Conversation between Thomas Lobster, soldier, and John Tar, mariner.