An 18th-century War Office in Westminster, London, steeped in history and quiet intrigue. Within, an aging secretary—his dignified grey hair swept back with care—labors diligently at a desk crowded with aged parchment and quill pens. The room is rich with the scent of pipe tobacco and candle wax, a faint haze still drifting from a recently extinguished pipe. (Jeffrey Campbell, Levy Money, 2025)
Orders Providing Levy Money to the Highland Regiments, 1757
War Office 13 January 1757
My Lord & Sir,
His Majesty having been pleased to order two Highland Battalions of Foot to be forthwith raised & sent to North America each Battalion to consist of 40 Serjeants 40 Corporals 20 Drummers and 1000 Private Men besides Commission Officers (their Establishment to commence from the 23 Decr. Last incl and to allow three pounds per Man Levy Money I have the Honour to acquaint you therewith, that you may be pleased to lay a Memorial before the Rt. Honble the Lords Commissioners of his Maty’s Treasury for the Money wanting for this Service.
I am
My Lord & Sir
Barrington
Lord Visct. Dupplin
& Thos. Potter Esqr. Paymaster Genl.
Copy
Works cited:
His Majesty having been pleased to order two Highland Battalions of Foot to be forthwith raised & sent to North America each Battalion to consist of 40 Serjeants 40 Corporals 20 Drummers and 1000 Private Men besides Commission Officers (their Establishment to commence from the 23 Decr. Last incl and to allow three pounds per Man Levy Money I have the Honour to acquaint you therewith, that you may be pleased to lay a Memorial before the Rt. Honble the Lords Commissioners of his Maty’s Treasury for the Money wanting for this Service.
I am
My Lord & Sir
Barrington
Lord Visct. Dupplin
& Thos. Potter Esqr. Paymaster Genl.
Copy
Works cited:
War Office Records: Out Letters: Secretary at War. General Letters, Dec. 1756 - Apr. 1757. LAC, W.O. 4, vol. 53 (selections).
© Jeffrey Campbell, Fraser's 78th Regiment of Foot, 2020.
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