Whereupon the Council of War was appointed by the
Senate to bring in a state of war, and the treasurers the state
of the Treasury. The state of war, or the pay and charge of an
army, was soon after exhibited by the Council in this account:
THE FIELD PAY OF A PARLIAMENTARY ARMY
The lord strategus, marching ?10,000
Polemarches--
General of the horse... 2,000
Lieutenant-general... 2,000
General of the artillery.... 1,000
Commissary-general... 1,000
Major-general.... 1,000
Quartermaster-general... 1,000
Two adjutants to the major-general... 1,000
Forty colonels..... 40,000
100 captains of horse, at ?500 a man... 50,000
300 captains of foot, at ?300 a man... 90,000
100 cornets, at ?100 a man.... 10,000
300 ensigns, at ?50 a man.... 15,000
800 Quartermasters, Sergeants, Trumpeters,
Drummers, 20,000
10,000 horse, at 2s 6d per day each... 470,000
30,000 foot, at 1s per day each.... 500,000
Chirurgeons... 400
40,000 auxiliaries, amounting to within a
little as much.
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