Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

clxxxviii JAMF.^ .lOtlN'STOXK, FIRST EAltL OF HAllTFELT,, 160S-1C53.
regiinout during the carai^aigu, which was at once given effect to, parliament
ordering that these officers in Lord Johnstone's regiment should have full pay
given them. On an earlier application to the committee for the army, some
question was raised as to the power of the committee to do what Lord John-
stone asked, while they thought lie should explain his not going out witli the
army, and other points in liis petition. The account preserded to the com-
mittee of estates of the payments due to his regiment for eight months, from
December 1639, mentions one lieutenant-colonel, one major, two captains,
three lieutenants, and two sergeants. The total of two parts of tlie pay of tliese
of3Scers for the time stated is £3756, Gs. Sd. Of this sum tlie public are lield
to be liable only for i he uionths of December 1639 and January 1C40, and
the remainder is charged against the shire. Tliere is a charge for a horse
watch kept upon the P.order by Johnstone in 1639, numbering twenty-
four, for six weeks; and also for another liorse watch, consisting of sixty
horse, kept by Johnstone on the Border for fifteen days. There are also
statements of pay to the regiment from 1st Aiigust 1640 to 1st September
16-11, "being threttein moneths at the lyik pay as the oflicers was pyed in
England." These include payments for a colonel, a lieutenant-colonel, two
captains, seven lieutenants, seven ensign.s, fourteen sergeants, six captains-at-
arms, foiirteen drummers and pipers, one minister, one quartermaster, one
"scriver," one drum-major, and one provost-mar.shal. The sum due to
Johnstone foi the pay of these for the thirteen months is given as
£29,181, Ss. 4d. The account was still unpaid in 16-18. On 14th Jamiary
of that year a sr.b-committee, to whom it was remitted, reported to the
committee of estates that they had taken the Earl of Hartfell's word of
honour that the number of officers and tlieir pay were correctl}" stated in
the account. The account was thereupon declared a public debt due by the
kingdom to the J'arl of Hartfell.^
* Account in Annandale Ch.irter-chest. Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, vol. v.
jiassim ; Balfour's Annals, vol. iii. pp. 2, 5, £2, 44, C.'j, 160, 10.5.