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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05165	Act anent the payment of officers, souldiers, and dragooners, horse and foot, in the quarters, quantity of their pay, and manner of payment of the same.	Scotland. Convention of Estates.	1646 (1646)	Wing S1050; ESTC R225449	3,575	5

At Edinburgh the 19. of November 1646. ACT Anent the payment of Officers Souldiers and Dragooners Horse and Foot in their Quarters quantity of their Pay and manner of payment of the same THe Estates of Parliament now conveened in this sixth Session of the first Trienniall Parliament by vertue of the last Act of the last Parliament holden by His Majestie and three Estates in Anno 1641. Taking to their consideration the great abuses committed by Officers and Souldiers in their unorderly Quartering through the Country And the heavy burden thereby lying upon His Majesties good Subjects And being resolved to apply their authority for redresse of these disorders and protection of the Lieges Do therefore Statute Ordain and enact That in time coming after the twentie sixth day of November instant All Officers and Souldiers have their pay delivered to them at the end of every fourteen dayes or sooner if they remove by the Shire in which they and their Regiments are Quartered according to the establishment hereafter subjoyned And that the saids Officers shall pay ready money for whatsoever they take up for themselves their Horse and servants at the ordinary rates of these places where they are Quartered without extortion And also that when they receive their payment ilk fourteen dayes at the receipt of their pay they bring with them and exhibite certificats and discharges of the true payment made by them of all their furnishing and expences from these persons where they have lived or from the Commissioners of Parishes or Magistrates of Burrows where they have been Quartered Heere followeth the establishment for the Officers for their daily pay in their Quarters viz. A Colonell to Horse 7 l. 4 s. Scots Money per diem A Lieutenant Colonell to Horse daily 3 l. 12 s. A Major to Horse daily 48 s. A Regiment Quarter-Master to Horse daily 30 s. A Chirurgion to Horse where there is ane daily 20 s. Each Root-Master daily 3 l. 6 s. 8 d. Each Lieutenant daily 30 s. Each Cornet daily 24 s. Each Quarter-Master daily 20 s. Each Corporal being three allowed to each Troop daily 16 s. Each Trumpeter daily 13 s. 4 d. And to each Trooper daily half Peck of Oates six sheaves of Straw and 6 s. 8 d. in Money Or otherwise 12 s. in Money in the option of the persons where they are Quartered Item For a Foot Regiment The Colonel to Foot to have daily 4 l. 16 s. A Lieutenant Colonell to Foot daily 48 s. A Major to Foot daily 32 s. Regiment Quarter-Master daily 20 s. Chirurgion where there is ane daily 20 s. Drummer Major daily 8 s. Regiment Scriber daily 13 s. 4 d. Provest Marshall daily 8 s. Each of ten Captains daily 44 s. 5 d. Each of ten Lieutenants daily 20 s. Each of ten Ensignes daily 16 s. Each of twenty Serjeants daily 6 s. 8 d. Each of thirty Corporals daily 5 s. 9 d. Each of ten Captains at Arms daily 6 s. 8 d. Each of nineteen Drummers daily 5 s. 4 d. Each Foot Souldier allowance in Meale and Quarters or 4 s. daily in the option of the persons where they are Quartered Item For a Regiment of Dragooners The Colonell of Dragooners daily 6 l. Lieutenant Colonell to the Dragooners daily 3 l. Major to the Dragooners daily 40 s. Quarter Master daily 25 s. The Chirurgion if there be ane daily 20 s. A Captain of Dragooners daily 45 s. A Lieutenant to Dragooners daily 25 s. An Ensigne to the Dragooners daily 20 s. Each Serjeant to the Dragooners daily 11 s. 4 d. Each Corporall of Dragooners daily 10 s. Each Drummer daily 10 s. Each Souldier of Dragooners to have daily 9 s. or else six sheaves Straw ane fourth part Oates and 5 s. Money in the option of the persons upon whom they are Quartered And it is Statute and Ordained That the Troopers and Souldiers of Foot be equally Quartered through the Shires by the respective Committees thereof And that upon no pretence whatsoever any exemption be allowed to any person but by Warrant of Parliament or their Committee except for lands burnt wasted or possessed by the enemy For it is declared hereby that such Lands or Burghs as shall be found by the Committee of Estates of Parliament or Commissioners appointed by them for that effect to be still possessed by the enemy or to have been burnt or wasted by the enemy our own Forces or the Plague so that the Heritors thereof are disabled therethrough to bear any publike burden Shall be free pro tanto of any pay or giving of Quarters to Officers or Souldiers unlesse in case of necessity for the good of the Service which is remitted to the Commander in chief where these Forces are And the Forces being thus proportionably Quartered in the Shires to Burgh and Land equally conform to their valuation and Maintenance It is Ordained That no Shire nor Burgh pay any Quarters to any common Souldiers Horse or Foot but such as are actually and locally Quartered within the bounds and that none of these common Souldiers Horse or Foot be paid when they are personally absent from their Quarters And it is declared That the whole premitted Articles are to be understood of the Winter Quarters allowed to the Officers and Souldiers for their residence and Maintenance conform as they are severally divided and appointed through the whole Kingdom and no wayes to be understood of passing or transient Quartering nor extended to the Shires where the body of Forces shall be commanded for the prosecution of the Warre so that no Shire shall be burdened above their proportion but that the Estates of Parliament in their particular Act for Maintenance and entertainment of the Forces shall set down the way of relief of the Shires of Aberdene Bamff and Murray presently and generally of all Shires which may happen hereafter to be overburdened in the prosecution of the Warre As likewise it is Ordained that in passing Quarters the Officers and Souldiers shall bee equally and proportionably Quartered in the Parish by the advice of the Commissioners thereof So that the Officers shall not overburden any person or place at their pleasure In which case of transient Quarters It is appointed that the Quarter Master or Commander of the party shall deliver to the Commissioner of the Parish or ane of the chief Heritors resident therein or their Bailies Officers or Chamberlains or Magistrats within Burgh the names of all the Souldiers to be Quartered in that Parish or Burgh in a Roll subscribed with his hand And declares that in these Parishes either in Burgh or Land so Quartered upon in these transient Quarters shall have their proportionall relief of the remanent Shire And it is also declared That the houses of Heritors and Liferentors shall be free of Quartering they furnishing Quarters upon their own Tennants or in Inns upon their own bounds And also that such Royall Burghs where there is Garisons of Foot be free of