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CHARLES I (1600-1649), King of England, Scotland and Ireland. Document signed (at head 'Charles R.'), Bagshot, 17 August 1627, approving the rates of pay of the 'com[m]anders officers & sodiers of everie regiment of footemen under the com[m]and of the right hono[ra]ble the Duke of Buckingham', one page, folio, bifolium (punctures at intersections of folds, some light speckling to margins).
PAYMENT FOR THE FORCES BESIEGING THE ILE DE Ré. Colonels are to receive a pound a day, lieutenant colonels 10 shillings a day, and so down to 'com[m]on soldiers' at 8 pence a day, though he is 'only to receive 3s a weeke, and the remainder being 20d a weeke is to be receaved towards his cloathing'; the surgeon is also to receive 10 pounds 'towards the furnishing of his chest'. The expedition under Charles's favourite the 1st Duke of Buckingham intended by capturing the island of Ré outside La Rochelle to tip the balance of the conflict between Cardinal Richelieu and the Huguenots; though they made a successful landing on 12 July, the siege of the citadel of St Martin ultimately failed, and the subsequent fighting retreat inflicted heavy losses on the English army.
PAYMENT FOR THE FORCES BESIEGING THE ILE DE Ré. Colonels are to receive a pound a day, lieutenant colonels 10 shillings a day, and so down to 'com[m]on soldiers' at 8 pence a day, though he is 'only to receive 3s a weeke, and the remainder being 20d a weeke is to be receaved towards his cloathing'; the surgeon is also to receive 10 pounds 'towards the furnishing of his chest'. The expedition under Charles's favourite the 1st Duke of Buckingham intended by capturing the island of Ré outside La Rochelle to tip the balance of the conflict between Cardinal Richelieu and the Huguenots; though they made a successful landing on 12 July, the siege of the citadel of St Martin ultimately failed, and the subsequent fighting retreat inflicted heavy losses on the English army.
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