Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

ccxl JAMES, EARL OF AXXANPALE AND HAUTFELL, lC."i3-1672.
and soldiers iu good order and discipline, and to observe such orders as
should be given liim from time to time by his superior officers.^ The earl
promptly raised the troop of horse, as the payments made to the troop,
commencing on Ist January, show. The troop consisted of himself as
captain, Itobert, ]^Ia?ter of JIaxwell, afterwards fo\irth Earl of Nithsdalc,
as lieutenant ; John, fourth Lord Lindores, cornet ; Sir James Johnstone of
Westerhall, quartermaster ; "William Couper, described as servant to the Earl
of Annandale, and also as clerk to his troop ; four corporals, two trumpeters,
and seventy-five private soldiers, representing in all eighty-six officers and
men. A book of disbursements to the troop, kept by William Couper,
contains entries for payments to seventy-four officers and soldiers, most of
which are authenticated by the signature of the person to whom the payment
is made.-
The Earl of Annandale appears to have met with difficulty in procuring
money to pay his troop of horse. On 13th June 1CC7, he writes to Hew
Sinclair, his chamberlain
—
" Being called to marche withe my troupe so ueirc to the Louthianis as I may
be within a dayes marclie to Eddinburgh, 1 am resolved to be at Gallashiclls
to-morrow, and cjuartter there till further order. ... I have also desyrcd some
supply for the troup, being altogitlicr destitutte of nionnay. . . . The Lord kuowis
what will become of ws, for if this warre contiuo\Y it is impossible we can sub-
sist and keipe creditt.*
A month later the earl again writes to his chamberlain from Newbie,
13th July 16G7—
" I told you iu rny lastt I had sentt some of my troupp to Galloway. This
people were togitlier ar now in C and serines, robing and pillaging in the counttrey.
Thay spoylle poore peoples houses, and frightts all the ministers, and that is all
thay doe. I have scntt this beirrcr cxpresse withe ane accountte to the commis-
' Vol. i. of this work, p. 94.
2 Ori^ljinal account-book in Annandale C'harter-cliest.
' Ori"inal letter in Annandale Charter-cLeiit,