MILITARY HISTORY 



Surrey to make up the deficiencies of the force wanted for Lord Wimble- 

 don's unfortunate expedition to Cadiz.' In 1627 the same Lord Wim- 

 bledon, who had become joint Lord Lieutenant of the county in 

 December 1626, wrote, in answer to a demand of the Council for 

 soldiers, that sixty men had been pressed and were taken to St, 

 Katherine's by the Tower for embarkation, but that there being no 

 one to receive them they had ' broken away,' and deserted success- 

 fully in a body/ Since then he had raised forty-eight more and was 

 endeavouring to make up the required number of 100 for this expedi- 

 tion/ 



In 1627, at the time of the first efforts to relieve La Rochelle, the 

 deputy lieutenants complained that the country had been put to great 

 expense by the billeting of soldiers at the rate of 3J. 6d. a week, and their 

 passing through at 8^. a day, also the furnishing of 800 men, 600 of whom 

 were clothed at 12s. 6d. each, besides press and conduct money/ The 

 trouble about the billeting of soldiers was constant/ and Surrey was 

 specially affected, as it lay on the road to Portsmouth, where troops 

 were gathering for the relief of La Rochelle. 



On 28 January 1628 the deputy lieutenants wrote to the Council 

 that they had billeted 420 men, that 130 more had been sent out 

 of Hampshire into Farnham with no order from the Council, though 

 Farnham was already much impoverished by many charges and through 

 the plague, and that they had been put to expense by passing 1,000 more 

 men through the county/ Later in the same year on 22 September they 

 sent a certificate to the effect that ^1,800 i6j. 4^. were still owing to 

 the billeters of soldiers since 31 December 1627.' A further difficulty 

 appears in a letter from Lord Wimbledon to the deputy lieutenants, dated 

 15 October 1628, complaining that men purchase substitutes to serve for 

 them and then neglect to pay them.' The war was popular in its origin, 

 but it cannot be said that the people displayed much patriotism in sup- 

 porting it. 



The next levies of soldiers in the county were for the array against 

 the king at the breaking out of the civil wars. King and Parliament 

 were contending for the command of the militia. A meeting was fixed 

 on 18 June 1642 at the house of the Earl of Nottingham at Letherhead, 

 where the deputy-lieutenants were requested to come together to set the 

 militia in order * ; and they met again for the same purpose at the same 

 place on 12 August." 



' Surrey " was one of the counties which had immediately obeyed 

 the declaration of the Houses touching the militia, issued on 18 June 

 1642, the day of this first meeting, bidding them not to attend to the 

 King's commission of array.' Only Captain Quennel of Haslemere had 



1 Cal. S. P. Bom. (1625-6), 37. ^ Ibid. (1627-8), 147. 



3 Loseley MS. xi. 80. * Grose, Military Antiquities, ii. Appendix 8, p. 30. 



6 V.H.C. Surr. i. 400. " Col. ofS. P. Don. (1627-8), t>^\-^. 



7 Ibid. (1628-9), 334. ' Loseley MS. date cited. 

 » Ibid. xi. 81. •" Ibid. vi. 133. 



11 Rushworth, Hist. Coll. i. (iii.) 680. 



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