Follows the division of the five Thousand Foot in the several Shires of this Kingdom according to the proportion of the Militia appoynted by the 25. Act of the 3. Sessi­on of His Majesties 1. Parl, Anno 1663.

The whole five Regiments of Foot amount to four thousand eight hundreth twenty and four men. —4824

A Division of five hundreth Horse, on the several Shires of this Kingdom, according to the proportion of the Militia ap­pointed by the 25. Act of the 3. Sess. of His Majesties 1. Parli­ament, anno 1663.

The whole five Troops amount to four hundreth and nintie six Horsemen. —0496

Follows the Instructions given by His Majesties Privy Council, to the Commissioners of the Militia, in the several Shires of the Kingdom.

I.

YOu are ordered to Stent the number of Horsemen and Footmen up­on the Paroches, Heretors, and Liferenters in your Shire, in the usual manner, having always a care to pitch upon such as may constantly attend upon the Service.

II.

You are to cause List the Names of the Souldiers, both Horse and Foot, and set down the names of their Parents, Designations, and Dwelling-places, and to Rank them in their respective Companies, and to deliver these Lists to the respective Leiutenants.

III.

You are to change no Souldier, Horse or Foot, for another, without express coment of the Leiutenant, who is to be answerable to his Major for what he does thereanent; and both the Major and Leiutenant are to obey the Leiutenant-General, or Commander in Chief of His Majesties Forces, as they will be answerable.

IV.

You are to order, that no Horse once received and listed, be changed, without consent of the Leiutenant, and the allowance of his superiour Officer.

V.

You are to choise and list new Souldiers, in place of these who shall be removed by Death, or Infirmity, or shall remove off the Ground, and send their Names to their Leiutenants; and that these new listed Souldiers be sufficient Men for the Service, conform to the first Act of the second Session Parliament 2. Charles 2.

VI.

You are to appoint all these listed within your Shire, to Rendezvous once in two Months, and to keep together eight days, at such Times and Places within the Shire, as the Major of Foot or Leiutenant of Horse shall appoint; and if the Rendezvous be without the Shire at such Times and Places as the Leiutenant-General, or Commander in Chief shall appoint; and the keeping of the Rendezvous once in two Months eight days toge­ther shall continue, until the Commander in Chief shall order it otherwise.

VII.

You are to order the Heretors to give allowance to the Horsemen and Foot Souldiers, for keeping the saids days of Rendezvous of eight days, once every two Months, and that for ten Months (His Majesty being to pay them for the last two Months) at the rate of six shillings Scots a day for ilk Footman, and eighteen shilling Scots for each Horsman, conform to the Act of Parliament: And ready obedience is expected hereto, seing they are at no more expence by paying fourty days to this number, then they were at formerly, by paying ten days to the whole, which they either did, or should have done.

VIII.

You are to take care that both Horsemen and Footmen be sufficiently cloathed, fitted with all kind of Furniture necessar for the Service; and that the Arms for the Foot, be two parts Musquets, and one part Pikes; and the Horsemen to be armed with a sufficient Sword and Hulster-Pistols.

IX.

Each Leader of Horse is to furnish and uphold a sufficient Horse with his Furniture, for the space of seven Years from their first Muster; and at the expiring of the seven Years, He, and these of the Fraction with him are to contribute for another Horse, not under the value of ten pounds Sterling, and fifty eight Inches high, and that a Horse be provided accordingly, and so forth at the expiring of each seven Years successive.

X.

You are to be careful that the Persons to be listed for the Militia, Horse or Foot, shall be able bodies of Men, fit for the Service, and that they be such as the Muster-master shall approve of, and who shall take the Military Oaths appointed by Act of Council, each Rendezvous day, and such Oaths as are contained in the Articles of War.

XI.

The Heretors of your Shire are to pay their proportion of fourty eight pound Scots to the Trumpeter, with the other Shires who are joyned with them in constituting the Troop: As also, Your Shire is to pay twelve pound Scots to every Drummer who serves in the Companies within your Shire, conform to the Act of Parliament.

XII.

And since His Majesty has under His Royal Hand, given Commissions to Majors, Leiutenants, and Ensigns of Foot, and to the Leiutenants of Horse; and has declared it His Pleasure, that the Leiutenants of Horse and Foot shall choose their own Corporals and Serjeants: Therefore you are to give your concurrence to them in their respective stations.

XIII.

You are to appoint two of your number per vices, to attend the first day of each Rendezvous within your Shire, and one of your number to attend [Page]the general Rendezvous of your Regiment or Troop when they come to­gether, it being necessar, that there be one Commissioner present for every Shire out of which the Regiment or Troop is taken, to the effect they may give order for fining and punishing the Absents, and for proceeding against all Deficients, and for performance of every thing else incumbent to them, conform to the Acts of Parliament and Council made thereanent, as well in every Company of Foot and Squad of Horse, as when the whole Regiment and Troop are together.

XIV.

These two Commissioners, with the concurrence of the Commanding-officer present for the time of the Foot-Company, or Squadron of Horse, or Corporalship, and of the Major of Foot and Leiutenant of Horse, or other Commanding-officer present, when the Regiment of Foot, or Troop of Horse is together; are carefully to ca [...]e poy [...]d every Deficient and o­ther Transgressours, conform to the Acts of Parliament and Council anent the Militia: Hereby requiring the saids Commissioners to do exact dili­gence herein, as they will be answerable at their outmost peril. And cer­tifying, these Commissioners who shall be absent, or being present, shall neglect their duty, hereby, and by Act of Parliament intrusted to them, shall be proceeded against as Contemners of His Majesties Authority and Service, and neglecters of the publick Peace of the Kingdom.

XV.

The Commissioners of the Militia on the south side of the North Water of Esk, in the several Shires of the Kingdom, are appointed to have their first meeting at the head Burgh of the Shire, upon the fifteen day of July next, and the Militia thereof, to have their first Rendezvouz upon the thir­teenth of August thereafter. And the Commissioners benorth the said Water, are to have their first meeting upon the tenth of August, and the Militia thereof to have their first Randezvouz upon the 24. of Aug. And the Commissioners on the south side of the said Water, are to give an ac­count what they do at their first Meeting to the Council, upon the first Council day of August, and to give the second account of the condition of their first Rendezvous, against the first Council day in September. And these benorth the said Water, are to give an account what they do at their first Meeting, the first Council day in September; and the second account of the condition of the first Rendezvous, the first Council day in October next.

XVI.

The Commissioners of the Militia of the several Shires at their first Meet­ing, are to appoint the Place of the first Rendezvous in every Shire, and to acquaint the Person of Quality afternamed, who is appointed to be present thereat.

XVII.

The Persons of Quality afternamed, are appointed to conveen the Com­missioners of the Militia to their first Meeting, and to be present thereat, and to go to the several Shires, and see the first Rendezvous keeped, and give an account thereof to the Council. [Page]

• For the Shire of Roxburgh, the Earl of Roxburgh
• For the Shire of Selkirk, the Laird of Hayning
• For the Shire of Berwick, the Earl of Home
• For the Shire of Peebles, the Lord Livingston
• For the Shire of Dumfreis, the Earl of Queensberry
• For the Shire of Wigton, the Laird of Burghton
• For the Stewartry of Kircudbright, the Earl of Nithisdale
• For the Shire of Edinburgh, Lord Hatton Theasaurer Depute
• For the Shire of Haddington, the Earl of Winton
• For the Shire of Linlithgow, the Earl of Linlithgow
• For the Shire of Stirling, the Lord Elphingston
• For the Shire of Clackmannan, the Earl of Mar
• For the Shire of Lanerk, the Marquess of Dowglas, and the Lord Ross
• For the Shires of Fife and Kinross, the Lord Chancellor, or whom he shall appoint
• For the Shire of Perth, the Marquess of Athol
• For the Shire of Air, the Earl of Glencairn,
• For the Shire of Renfrew, the Lord Ross
• For the Shire of Forfar, the Earl of Southesk
• For Kincardin and Marischals part of Aberdeen, the Earl Marischal
• For Bamff and rest of Aberdeen, the Laird of Auchmedden younger
• For Argile, the Earl of Argile
• For Bute, the Laird of Kelburn
• For Dumbarton, the Lord Lorn
• For Elgin, the Lord Duffus
• For Nairn, and Earl of Murrays division of Innerness, and Badzenoch, the Earl of Murray, and in his absence the Laird of Caddel
• For the Earl of Seaforth, and Lord Lovats division of Innerness, the Earl of Seaforth
• The rest of Ross, Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbet, or Sir George Munro
• For the Shire of Caithness, the Earl of Caithness
• For the Shire of Sutherland, the Earl of Sutherland, or Sir Robert Gor­don of Embo
• For Orkney and Zetland, the Stewart or his Depute.

XVIII.

His Majesties Privy Council have appointed, and appoints, that in the Shires of Ross, Sutherland, Caithness, and Orkney, which had not formerly a Militia setled therein, the Justices of Peace, and Commissioners of Excise, be Commissioners of the Militia. Extracted by me

Additional Instructions for the Militia: Edinburgh, the eight day of July, 1680.

I.

THE Lords of His Majesties Privy Council considering, that by the first Article of the late Instructions; the Heretors and Liferenters are ordered to Stent the number of Horse and Foot in the usual way: Do declare, that albeit according to the Act of Parliament, the He­retors and Liferenters be lyable thereto, yet they are to have their relief from the Tenants, whose proper Burthen it is to furnish the Bodies of the Footmen and their Arms, and Pay, during the days of the Rendezvous; and the Heretors may accordingly force any of their Tenants or Servants who are fittest: the rest of the Tenants contributing for their several Proportions, in the way formerly accustomed, either by Paroches, or otherwise, accor­ding as has been used in the respective Shires.

II.

As to the third and fourth Articles of the saids Instructions, whereby it is appointed, that no Souldier, Horse or Foot, be changed for another, and that no Horse once received and listed, be changed without consent of the Leiutenant; It is ordered that no such change be made without expresse consent of the Leiutenant, and two Commissioners of the Militia.

III.

As to the sixth Article of the Instructions, where it is appointed, that Rendezvous be kept eight days every two Months, for the space of ten Moneths: It is ordained, that the first Rendezvouz shall meet for this year, as is formerly appointed, viz upon the 13, and 24. of August respective, and to continue together for eight dayes, and the next Rendezvouz to begin the first Wednesday of October, and to continue together sixteen days; And for the subsequent Years, it is appointed that the first Rendezvouz shall begin the first Wednesday of June, and to continue for sixteen dayes, and the next Rendezvouz to be upon the first Wednesday of October, and to continue then likewise for sixteen dayes, and so forth to continue yearly thereafter; which two Rendezvouzes compleats the 32. dayes, payable by the Country.

IV.

As to the ninth Article, It is appointed, that the Militia Horse be worth ten Pound Sterling, conform to the Act of Parliament, and be fiftie eight Inches high, At least, that the Horse be of sufficient size, fit for Service.

V.

It is hereby declared, that these that are liable in the Fraction, shall pay to the Leaders of Horse, and Outreikers of Foot, their proportional parts of what is due for the Pay both of Horse and Foot, during the whole time they stay at the Rendezvouses.

VI.

Whereas, since the Act of Parliament in the Year 1663, Establishing the Militia, by which there are 800. Foot, and 88. Horse, appointed for the Shire of Dumfreis; There is an late Act of Parliament disjoyning the Militia of the five Kirks of Eskdale from the said Shire, and uniting the same to the Mi­litia of Roxburgh, whose proportion of the great Militia is one hundreth Foot and ten Horse: The Lords of Council ordains the Proportion of the new Model'd Militia of these two Shires to be regulat accordingly. Extracted by me