MILITARY HISTORY 



infantry and 1 20 horse at Croydon is supplied by a letter of Lord 

 Buckhurst/ 



The Bishop of Winchester besides writing a circular letter to his Surrey 

 clergy, ordering them to provide 100 men, furnished supplies/ Though 

 the Surrey Horse were sent home from Tilbury on 4 August,^ for want 

 of provisions, a county force was still held in readiness on 24 August/ 

 These were no doubt the 1,871 trained men, as the great musters at 

 Croydon, Reigate, Godstone and Dorking can hardly have been kept 

 together through the harvest time. 



For the offensive warfare which followed the victory of 1588 

 many levies were made in Surrey. For a contingent which joined 

 the unfortunate expedition of Drake and Norris to Portugal in 1589," 

 the people of Southwark complained that they were over-assessed com- 

 pared with the rest of the county.* One Thomas Cawte took his 

 bounty money and deserted, which was not perhaps a singular case.' 

 He was sought after, but his apprehension is not mentioned. Forty-five 

 men were raised for service in France in 1593, under a Captain Mar- 

 shall, a kinsman of Lord Howard of Effiingham.* On 24 January 

 1594 fifty men were ordered to be raised to serve under Sir Francis 

 Vere in the Netherlands. Their clothing and swords cost £100, 

 which the Lord Lieutenant thought an overcharge.* In 1594 a thou- 

 sand men were raised in the county, in four bands of 250 men each, 

 commanded by Sir Francis Weston, Sir Francis Carew, Sir Thomas 

 Browne and George More." Later on, fifty of these (first a hundred 

 were ordered but fifty were excused), were sent to Brittany, when 

 Henry IV. of France took Brest by aid of an English force.'' In 1595 

 sixteen hundred men were trained under Captain Geoffrey Dutton, with 

 the object of providing reinforcements from their ranks for Vere's force 

 in the Netherlands. Some of them deserted, when drafted for the 

 purpose, and the Lord Admiral was anxious that they should be 

 arrested, not to be hanged but ' rather to reclayme them and instruct 

 them in the discipline of war.' " In the same year there was a levy of 

 horse, the number not stated, for service in Ireland." In September 

 there was a general muster of horse and foot in the county, under 

 Captain Dutton." The horse certainly were by this time all equipped 

 with firearms, for the Lord Admiral appointed David Woodroffe to be 

 captain of the ' pistoleers,' and Brand of Moulsey, captain of the ' pet- 

 ronelles.'" Mr., afterwards Sir David, Woodroffe found that urgent 

 private affairs hindered his serving, and he was superseded by Mr. 

 Compton of Godalming. As Woodroffe's wife was niece to the de- 

 prived Marian Bishop of Winchester, and as he himself was otherwise 



» Cant. Cath. Lib. MS. Y. 7, 5 and compare Acts of P. C. Eliz. 23 July 1588, r.C.H. Suit. i. 



392- 



2 Loseley MS. xi. 18. " Ibid. vi. 55. * Ibid, date cited. 



« Ibid. xii. 68. " Ibid. vi. 56, xii. 71. '' Ibid. viii. no. 



« Ibid. xi. 55. Ibid. vi. 66. " Ibid. 31 May 1594, 



" Ibid. vi. 72 ; 27, 28 July 1594. " Ibid, i, 4 April 1595, vi. 77. 



" Ibid. 8 June 1595 " Ibid. v. 81. 



16 Ibid. xi. 64. The petronel was a carbine used by cavalry. 



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