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company, paid from the subscriptions, the War Office defrayed 

 the other payments to the force. The payments on inspection 

 days, and when the corps was on " permanent duty," were at the 

 following rate per diem :— Lt.-Colonel, 17s. iid. ; Major, 14s. id. ; 

 Paymaster, los. 4d.; Captain, 9s. 5d. ; Lieutenant, 5s. 8d. ; 

 Ensign, 4s. 8d. ; Sergeant, is. 6fd. ; Corporal, is. 2jd. ; Drummer 

 and Fifer, is. ifd. ; Private, is. There was also an allowance 

 of 2S. yd. per diem to each Captain of a company for repairs of 

 arms and contingent expenses. 



It was ordered that there should be six inspections of each 

 corps during the year. These inspections were usually helil on a 

 Sunday morning. Short notice was generally given by the 

 inspecting officer, and a place some little distance away was 

 chosen for the parade. For instance, the Belper corps in the 

 year 1804 were inspected at Brailsford, Kedleston, and Shipley. 

 The corps attended five inspections during that year, and the 

 total War Office grant amounted to ^399 os. 6d. Corps were 

 also called out for permanent duty for fourteen days at some 

 place remote from their own houses ; thus the Belper men went 

 to Chesterfield in 1804, and to Ashbourne in 1805. The War 

 Office grant for fourteen days at Ashbourne amounted to 

 ;^'35i 9s. 95d. A peculiarity of this military rising was, that 

 each company had to have a sufficiency of waggons provided for 

 the carriage of the men, at the rate of sixteen per waggon. Each 

 waggon was to be provided with two drivers and four horses. 

 They could be used for ordinary farm purposes, but bore a number 

 and the name of the corps on a tin plate, and had to be in 

 attendance at every inspection. The men generally rode in the 

 waggons to the inspections, the vehicles being fitted for the 

 occasion with swinging seats attached to the sides by leather 

 straps. There were sixteen of these waggons attached to ihe 

 Belper Volunteer Infantry. 



The cost of the scarlet coat with yellow facings and the white 

 trousers of the Belper Volunteers was ^£2 9s. 5d. per suit, con- 

 siderably less than various other corps in the county, as the 

 materials were bought and the work done by local tailors, instead 



