Service the said Earl of Drogheda or one of the Field Officers of the said Regiment is to make the like returns to your Office as are usually made upon raising Regiments: We do hereby give you Notice thereof and do direct you upon Receipt of the Returns aforesaid to allow the names of all such Recruits on the Muster Rolls of the said Regiment in Order to their being entered for Pay, pursuant to His Majesty’s Letter aforesaid. Given at His Majesty’s Castle of Dublin the 15th Day of January 1760. By His Grace’s Command RICHARD RIGBY. To the Muster Master General of this Kingdom or his Deputy. A month later followed the Royal Warrant. [Sidenote: 1760.] _George R._--Right Trusty and Right Entirely Beloved Cousin and Councillor. We greet you well. Whereas the Commissioners of our Treasury have laid before us your Letter of the 29th of December last transmitting unto them the following Establishment of a Regiment of Light Dragoons to be raised according to a Proposal from Charles Earl of Drogheda which had been laid before and approved by Us and also an Estimate of the Expence of each particular to be provided and defrayed by Us for the use of the said Regiment which said Establishment for One Year commencing from the seventeenth day of December last will amount to the sum of seventeen thousand four hundred and thirteen pounds ten shillings and tenpence according to the following particulars thereof that is to say-- Per day. Per annum. For one Lieutenant Colonel Commandant £0 7 0 £127 15 0 One Lieutenant Colonel 0 7 0 127 15 0 One Major 0 5 0 91 5 0 One Chaplain 0 6 8 121 13 4 One Surgeon 0 4 0 73 0 0 One Mate 0 2 6 45 12 6 One Adjutant 0 4 0 73 0 0 For One Troop Captain 10 sh. and two servants at 1/2 each £0 12 4 £225 1 8 Lieutenant 6 sh. and one Servant at 1/2 0 7 2 130 15 10 Cornet 5 sh. and one Servant at 1/2 0 6 2 112 10 10 Quarter Master 0 4 0 73 0 0 Three Sergeants at 2/8 each 0 8 0 146 0 0 Three Corporals at 1/10 each 0 5 6 100 7 6 Two Drummers at 1/8 each 0 3 4 60 16 8 One Hautboy at 1/6 0 1 6 27 7 6 Seventy Men at 1/6 each 5 5 0 1,916 5 0 -------- ------------- 7 13 0 2,792 5 0 For five Troops more 38 5 0 13,961 5 0 -------- ------------- General Total £47 14 2 £17,413 10 10 -------- -------------