A HISTORY OF SURREY 



tants being dead or gone. The intention at least of the authorities was 

 good with regard to ' maimed soldiers,' those who were * at the town's 

 end for the rest of their lives.' Lord Howard himself wrote to the 

 magistrates on behalf of a poor disabled soldier, Thomas Tayler of 

 Cobham, desiring that he should be properly relieved. 1 General direc- 

 tions appear to the same purport several times. The duties of the 

 deputy lieutenancy were so arduous that the number had to be raised. 

 Besides Sir William More, they were Sir Thomas Browne, Sir William 

 Howard of Lingfield, brother to the Lord Admiral, and Sir Francis 

 Carew of Beddington, son to that Sir Nicholas Carew who had been 

 executed by Henry VIII. in 1539, himself restored to land and favour 

 by Queen Mary. He was now an elderly man. But Sir Thomas Browne 

 was lax in his attendance to his duties,* and Sir William More was 

 growing old. George More was associated with them in 1596. These 

 were all rather civilian ministers of war than soldiers. The experience 

 of real service was bringing forward a different class of man to exercise 

 actual command. In 1595 there were 1,600 men in training in the 

 county under a Captain Geoffrey Dutton, a man 'well exercised in the 

 wars.' At another time the county levies are under Colonel Thomas 

 Baskerville, also an experienced soldier. A considerable body of men 

 in the country must have become really trained by service, for the 

 foreign expeditions were continuous. In 1593 fifty men were raised 

 to serve under Sir Francis Vere in the Netherlands. In 1594 a levy 

 of 100 men was ordered to go to Brittany, but on the next day the 

 number was reduced to fifty. In 1596 Surrey sent infantry to serve 

 under Vere in the Netherlands and some horse to Ireland. Towards 

 the victualling of the fleet in the same year it was called upon to supply 

 bacon, the supply from other counties having failed. 3 In 1596 fifty 

 men were raised for the garrison of Flushing. There was some anxiety 

 in this year about the defence of the coasts. The care of the beacons 

 had been relaxed by three several orders in 1591, 1593 and 1595, the 

 last describing the business as being ' verie chargable unto the inhabi- 

 tantes.'* But in 1596 they were ordered to be looked after again. The 

 Spaniards took Calais from Henri IV. ; 500 men were hurriedly raised 

 in Surrey to go to its relief, 6 but the French king declined to have Calais 

 saved by English troops within forty years of its having been an English 

 town, and the force was countermanded. The troops were apparently 

 used to go on the Cadiz expedition in the same year. 8 When the 

 Spaniards proceeded to threaten Boulogne also, aid from England was 

 accepted, and 100 men were raised in Surrey to go thither. 7 The 

 menace to England of Guisnes and the Boulonnais being overrun by the 

 Spaniards was thought so serious that all the southern counties were 

 fully armed, and in October 3,000 men were put in training in Surrey 



1 Loseley MSS. October 17, 1593, xi. 57. * Ibid. March 23, 1595-6. 



8 Ibid. March 24, 1595-6, vi. 75. * Ibid. November 5, 1595, vi. 88. 



6 Ibid. April 9, n, 1596, vi. 95. 



8 Ibid. January 17, j 596-7, vi. 105. Sir Richard Wingfield commanded them. 



7 Ibid. September 20, 1596, vi. 98. Colonel Baskerville commanded them. 



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