Catalogue description LORD WYLLUGHBY to SIR THOMAS SHERLEY, her Majesty's Treasurer at Wars in the Low Countries.

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Details of 8ANC12/6
Reference: 8ANC12/6
Title: LORD WYLLUGHBY to SIR THOMAS SHERLEY, her Majesty's Treasurer at Wars in the Low Countries.
Description:

--Warrant, in pursuance of a resolution of the Privy Council, to pay weekly to the principal officers of the Army and of the Council of State, as also those of the two cautionary towns of Flusshing and Briell, their full pay according to the last establishment, from the 3rd of December last (saving only to the officers and commissaries of the musters, who are to have half their weekly pay from the same date) viz. : to every company of a hundred lances 30l. sterling weekly ; and to every company of a hundred and fifty footmen 20l. and 4l. 6s. from the victualler in good and wholesome victuals (margin in Lord Willoughby's hand, "provided that none shall be constrained to receive the victuals or any part of it but at their pleasure"), and so to every company of footmen in greater number proportionably ; and to continue the weekly payments henceforth in manner aforesaid until orders be received to the contrary. Provided always that all such weekly payments and imprests as have been already made since the afore-said date be reckoned as parcel of those to be made by this warrant.

Date: 1589, April 8
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 1 page.
Physical condition: Copy.

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