. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . hefees of all the high officers—the chancellor, the treasurer and privy seal,the judges, the barons and chancellor of the exchequer, and all otherministers of the courts. All fiscal officers were also to be paid fromthe same fund,—custom-house officers, comptrollers, receivers, surveyors,searchers. Pay ye also of our treasure to our lieutenant of Ireland,wardens of our marches east and west, captain of our town of Berwick,wages assigned by us and our council, after th
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . hefees of all the high officers—the chancellor, the treasurer and privy seal,the judges, the barons and chancellor of the exchequer, and all otherministers of the courts. All fiscal officers were also to be paid fromthe same fund,—custom-house officers, comptrollers, receivers, surveyors,searchers. Pay ye also of our treasure to our lieutenant of Ireland,wardens of our marches east and west, captain of our town of Berwick,wages assigned by us and our council, after the indentures of their with-holding. There was no standing army to pay in England, as in Franceunder Charles VII. Ireland, and the borders of Wales and Scotland, weredefended by contract. These grants exhibit the nature of the bargainsmade with the wardens of the marches. Henry, earl of Northumberland, isretained for five lunar months to be lord captain of the castle and town ofBerwick, and therein to keep sis hundred soldiers, defensibly arrayed, ofwhom three himdred shall be archers, with two knights or squires to be. Archers. heutenants; for whose wages the king grants the sum of 43SZ. 10*. , the soldiers being paid at the rate of Od. a day. Those wages areto be paid beforehand for tlie iirst two months; and the king is also toprovide artillery and otiicr habiliments of war. Tiie navy was paid byoeparatc disbursement for each ship : Pay ye also, from time to time, untothe clerks of our shins all things necessary for the safeguard and suretykeeping of our said ships, and fur wages and victuals of mariners attendingupon the Bame. For the general defence of the kingdom against rebulliou 1450-14S5.] MILITARY SVSTEM. 106
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