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as they dared of the county's money. It must be admitted 

 that the ministers in London were not niggardly in doing their 

 share, the daily pay of a footman being eight pence and of a 

 horseman nine pence. The rations of food were on a prodigious 

 scale. The daily allowance for a horseman was 2 Jibs, of bread, 

 IJlbs. of biscuit, 31bs. of beef, lib. of cheese, Jib. of butter, 

 3 quarts of beer, and 3 pints of wine. A footman got rather 

 less of everything except butter and cheese. 



An endeavour will now be made to recount some of the 

 services on which these Dorset soldiers were employed, and 

 this will form the final section of my paper. Dealing first 

 with operations within the Kingdom, we have the bare 

 statement that Sir Thomas Trenchard and other gentlemen 

 of the west went to the relief of Exeter in 1497 at the time 

 of Perkin Warbeck's rebellion. Next in point of date was 

 the repression of the northern rebellion called " The 

 Pilgrimage of Grace " in 1536, when 1,050 men under Sir 

 Giles Strangways, Sir Thomas Arundell, Sir Thomas More, 

 Sir Edward Willoughby, Sir John Hussey and John Rogers, 

 marched northward, the force being composed of six con- 

 tingents of various strengths, formed by the leaders named. 

 There was another visit to Devon in 1549 in connection with 

 the rebellion of that year, but the only record I have found 

 on the subject occurs in some proceedings in the Court of the 

 Duchy of Lancaster when a gentleman named John Dackum, 

 of Kingston Lacy, was said to have served under Sir John 

 Rogers, then farmer of the manor of Kingston Lacy, against 

 the rebels in the Western parts. Dackum was a petty 

 captain and " was hurte betwixt the eye and the nose with 

 an arrowe." With the exception of calls of 300 men to 

 defend Portsmouth in 1557, and of a total of the same number 

 to garrison Ireland in later years, there was no further 

 occasion for Dorset soldiers to march outside their county 

 until the successive alarms of invasions which lasted from 

 1588 to near the end of the century. 



On the approach of the Spanish Armada a thousand of 

 the trained bands were hurried to London under Andrew 



