Military documents, [1740?].

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Military documents, [1740?].

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Five military documents concerning the military and naval returns for Great Britain, c. 1740, titles include: "The pay of the officers & men in the Royal Navy, together with the number in each rate, and their daily allowance of provisions and the number of ships"; "The pay & subsistence of his Majesty's land forces on the British & Irish establishments"; "General list of his Majesty's land forces & marines, shewing the number of regiments, & men in each, the number of half-pay officers on the British Establishment, & amount of their pay, the names and rank of the several corps in the Army, 1740"; "The pay of the several officers and men, in his Majesty's garrisons in Great Britain"; "The pay of the garrisons in Ireland Gibraltar Minorca & the Plantations, the half-pay of the officers of the Navy & of the Army both on the British and Irish Establishment, pensions allow'd to the widows of officers of the Army & Navy, the distribution of prize money."

1 v. (10 leaves) ; 38 cm.

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