2>or0et IDolunteers buring the jfrencb 

 Mars, 1793-1814, 



By HENRY SYMONDS, F.S.A. 



(Read December 9th, 1919). 



[HE early history of the unmounted Volunteer Corps 

 in this county has yet to be written; but whoever 

 may undertake the work will find that he must rely 

 mainly on the War Office records from which 

 the following extracts, now printed for the first time, are 

 gathered. He will also find, I believe, in our citizen army at the 

 end of the eighteenth century the same public spirit in face 

 of danger which animated the Territorial troops when the call 

 came five years ago. 



The material for this article has been obtained from the 

 muster rolls and pay lists in the care of the Public Record 

 Office, to which place the War Office has transferred its older 

 chronicles. The documents are available down to 1837, but 

 I propose to cite a part of the earliest return from each unit, 

 thus indicating the locality in which the company was raised, 

 the names of the officers, and the number of non-commissioned- 



