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soldiers thereof in Arms, and to use your best endeavours to keep them in 

 good order & discipline, who are hereby commanded in his Majesty's name to 

 obey you as their Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, and you are to observe & 

 follow such orders & directions from time to time as you shall receive from his 

 Majesty, myself, my deputy Lieutenants, or any other your superior officers 

 according to the rules & discipline of war in pursuance of the trust hereby 

 reposed in you. Given under my hand & seal the thirty first day of October 

 in the forty fourth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by 

 the grace of God of the united Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, 

 Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight 

 hundred & three. 



Devonshire. I Seal. J 



A general meeting of subscribers to the fund was held at Mr. 

 Frost's, the Talbot Inn, Belper, on November 26th, Mr. Francis 

 Bradshaw in the chair, to appoint a finance committee, such 

 commiitee consisting of all subscribers of five guineas and upwards. 

 Mr. G. H. Strutt was appointed Treasurer. The subscriptions 

 for providing that part of the uniform that was not defrayed 

 by the government, and the various other local expenses, were 

 on a generous scale, being upwards of ;^i,3oo in the first twelve- 

 month, of which sum Messrs. W. G. and J. Strutt contributed 

 _;£50o. Every inducement was offered to rally the nation to this 

 volunteer movement, for not only did the volunteers obtain 

 exemption from the militia ballot, as well as from enforced 

 enHstment in the army or navy, but the contributing townships 

 were saved their quota of the militia rate, and also obtained a 

 grant from the national exchequer when the men exceeded a 

 certain quota. Thus on February 12th, 1804, the Belper 

 volunteer treasury was credited with ^^130, being '■ 25s. per man 

 for 106 volunteers more than 6 times the number of militia 

 required from Belper, Shuttle, and Holbrooke." As, however, 

 by far the greater part of the expenses of maintenance were paid 

 by the government, the local charge was but small when once a 

 corps was established and equipped. 



With the exception of the weekly payment for the staff of each 



