68 BELPER REGIMENT. 



in number six times the original quota required to be raised 

 pursuant to the 42 Geo. III., c. 90, and the Lord-Lieutenant* 

 was directed at once to put the Act into execution. The 

 men to be balloted for were to be between the ages of 18 

 and 30, and no substitute nor bounty were to be allowed. 

 The period of service was to be four years. The county was 

 to be subject to a fine of ^15 for each man deficient on 

 the 14th of February in those ' years when the force was 

 ordered to be embodied. The only difference between the 

 officers of the Old and Local Militia was that in the former 

 no officer was to have a greater rank than that of Lieut- 

 Colonel Commandant, except when the Commandant shall 

 have served with the rank of Colonel in the regular army. 

 The Local Militia of Derbyshire thus constituted was divided 

 into five regiments, namely the Derby, Belper, Chatsworth, 

 Scarsdale, and Wirksworth, the aggregate strength of the rank 

 and file being 4,461. This force, raised in September, i8o8, 

 first assembled in 1809. It could not be marched beyond 

 some adjoining county except in case of invasion. The 

 qualifications of officers in the Local Militia were as follows: — 

 Captain, an estate of the yearly value of ^^150 or a personal 

 estate worth £2^0 a year ; for a Lieutenant, an estate of 

 ;£^o yearly or personal property to the amount of ;^75o ; 

 and for an Ensign, an estate of the yearly value of ;^2o 

 or personal property to the amount of ;^4oo. The following 

 is a list of the principal officers and strength of the Derby- 

 shire regiments ; all tlie Commissions date from Sept. 24th, 

 1808 :— 



Derby Regiment, raised from parts of the hundreds of 

 Morleston and Litchurch, and of Repton and Gresley ; 10 

 companies, 1,018 rank and file; Edward Pole, Colonel; 

 William Simpson, M.D., Lt.-Colonel ; John Cox and Edward 

 Ward, Majors. 



* This is the first Act in which the head of the County Forces is termed 

 Lord -Lieutenant ; in previous Acts he had been simply termed Lieutenant. 

 But the courtesy title of Lord had been usually granted to him from the outset. 



