Catalogue description The ARMY.

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Title: The ARMY.
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"An Establishment [by the Queen] expressing the number of all the officers and bands of horse and foot appointed for a new Army in the realm of Ireland, together with their several entertainments, by the day, month, and year. The same Establishment to begin and take place from the 1st day of March in this 41st year of [our] reign."

 

Officers of the Army.--The Lord Lieutenant, 10l.; lieutenant of the army, 3l.; general of the horse, 40s.; marshal of the camp, 30s.; sergeant-major of the army, 20s.; lieutenant of the horse, 20s.; quartermaster, 20s.; judge martial, 20s.; auditor general, 13s. 4d.; comptroller general of the victuals, 10s.; lieutenant of the ordnance, 10s.; surveyor of the ordnance, 11s. 8d.; two clerks or commissaries of munitions, to attend the magazines or arsenals, at 5s. per diem apiece; four corporals of the field, at 6s. 8d. each; four commissaries of victuals, three at 6s. per diem, and one at 8s.; carriage master, 6s. 8d.; twenty colonels, 10s. each. Total for a year, 13,127l. 16s. 8d.

 

Horse.--1,300 horsemen, distributed into 26 bands; captains, 4s. a day; lieutenants, 2s. 6d.; cornets, 2s.; 300 of the horse at 18d. a day, 200 at 15d., and 800 at 12d. Total per annum, 31,408l. 5s.

 

Foot.--16,000 foot, divided into 160 bands. Captain of each band, 4s. a day; lieutenant, 2s.; two sergeants, a drum, and a surgeon, 12d. each; ensign, 18d.; 94 soldiers and 6 dead pays, 8d. each. Total per annum, 228,246l. 13s. 4d.

 

Extraordinaries.--For sending letters by messengers; for the hire of a bark to convey packets; gifts and rewards for services; espial money either for foreign countries or for that realm; carriage of treasure, victuals, and munition; necessaries for the clerk of the Council; charges of keeping prisoners, and of buildings and reparations of castles, forts, and houses (all to be passed by concordatum), 5,000l. a year.

 

Sum total, 277,782l. 15s.

 

Given under the signet manual, at Richmond, 25 February, 41 Eliz.

 

II. "A LIST of divers OFFICERS and SERVITORS not contained in the Establishment."

 

Officers-general.--The Lord Deputy, 1,300l. a year; his band of horsemen (at 4l. 4s. a day), 1,542l. 2s. 6d.; 50 footmen (at 8d. each a day), 608l. 6s. 8d.; treasurer at wars, 35s. a day; marshal, 5s. 9d.; master of the ordnance, 24s. 8d. a day; clerks, gunners, and other ministers of the ordnance, 25s. 2d.; Sir Raphe Lane, muster master, 11s. 6d. Total, 5,313l. 9s. 7d.

 

Munster.--The President, 133l. 6s. 8d. a year; his diet, 10l. a week; his guard of horse and foot, 30s. 6½d. a day; chief justice, 100l. a year; second justice, 66l. 13s. 4d.; Queen's attorney, 13l. 6s. 8d.; clerk of the Council, 20l.; provost marshal (at 14s. a day), 255l. 10s. Total, 1,657l. 13s. 9½d.

 

Connaught.--Sir Conyers Clyfford, 100l. a year; his diet and the Council's there, 10s. a day; "more to him for an increase at 10s. per diem;" "more to him an allowance per annum, 40l.;" chief justice, 100l. a year; clerk of the Council, 20l.; sergeant-at-arms, 20l.; provost marshal (at 14s. 6d. a day), 264l. 12s. 6d. Total, 909l. 12s. 6d.

 

Ulster.--Nil.

 

Leinster.--Sir Warham St. Leger, lieutenant of the Queen's County, at 6s. 8d. a day, 121l. 13s. 4d. a year; Owen Ap Hughe, provost marshal of the army, 4s. 3d. a day; Robert Bowen, provost marshal, 5s. 7½d. a day. Total, 301l. 17s. 8½d.

 

Chief Officers lately erected.--Governor of Loughefoyle, 20s. a day; governor of Karickfergus, 10s.; governor of Dundalk, 10s.; commander of the forces of Cavan, 10s.; commander of the forts of Rathdrome, Castlekeavyn, and Wicklowe, 10s.; commander of the forces in Ofayly, 10s. Total, 1,277l. 10s.

 

Warders in divers provinces.--In Leinster, 42s. 3d. a day; Munster, at 26s. 4½d.; Ulster, at 28s. 4d.; Connaught, 200l. a year; warders newly erected, 57s. 10d. a day. Total, 3,031l. 0s. 7½d.

 

Pensioners, Almsmen, and Commissaries.--44 pensioners, 4l. 19s. 2d. a day; 13 almsmen, 6½d. each a day; four commissaries for musters, 6s. 8d. each a day. Total, 2,385l. 8s. 5½d.

 

Sum total, 13,886l. 13s. 9d.

 

"This list was signed by the Lords [of the Privy Council], as the former was by her Majesty."

 

Copies.

Date: 25 Feb 1599
Related material:

MS 635, p. 142. Copies of MS 601, p. 171.

Held by: Lambeth Palace Library, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: MS 601, p. 171
Language: English
Physical description: 6 Pages.
Unpublished finding aids:

Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, ed. J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen (6 vols., 1867-73, vol. III, document 292.

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