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Foxes and Lambs (12 S. viii. 511).—According to 'The Living Animals of the World,' in hilly countries the fox becomes a powerful and destructive animal, killing not only game but lambs. Mention is also made of one being shot when carrying away a lamb from a sheepfold near the cliffs of Sidmouth, in Devon. A. H. W. Fynmore.
Arundel.
Sundials (12 S. viii. 511; ix. 39).—An illustrated article on sundials, by Warrington Hogg, appeared in The Strand Magazine, June, 1892, pp. 607-12. A paper on 'Ancient Sundials of Scotland,' illustrated by drawings of about 200 examples, was read before the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, on January 14, 1889, by Mr. Thomas Ross, architect, of Edinburgh; a report of it, with illustrations, was printed in The Builder, January 26, 1889. See also The Western Antiquary, Plymouth, March, 1889, p. 176. Fredk. A. Edwards.
Epitaphs Desired. (12 S. viii. 211).—I enclose the copy of epitaph on George
Routleigh's tombstone in Lydford churchyard, Devon:—
Here lies, in Horizontal position,
The outside case of
George Routleigh, Watchmaker,
Whose abilities in that line were an honour
To his profession;
Integrity was the main-Spring,
And Prudence the Regulator
Of all the actions of his life;
Humane, generous, and liberal,
His Hand never stopped
Till he had relieved distress;
Sincerely regulated were all his movements,
That he never went wrong,
Except when Set a-going
By people
Who did not know
His Key;
Even then, he was easily
Set right again:
He had the art of disposing his Time
So well
That his Hours glided away
In one continual round
Of Pleasure and Delight,
Till an unlucky Moment put a period to
His existence:
He departed this Life
November 14, 1802,
Aged 57,
Wound up,
In hopes of being taken in Hand
By his Maker,
And of being
Thoroughly cleaned, repaired, and set a-going
In the world to come.
In Aberconway churchyard there is, or was, an almost precisely similar-worded epitaph, save that the word "motions" occurs for "movements."
It would be interesting to know if it is still there. L. H. Chambers.
Bedford.
Royalist and Roundhead Rates of Pay (12 S. viii. 411).—The rates of pay of
the Royalist and Roundhead soldiers are given in detail in Grose's 'Military Antiquities,' vol. i. The pay of the army just before the outbreak of the Civil War was as follows:—
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Foot.
Captain
Lieutenant
Ensign
Serjeant
Drummer
Corporal
Soldier
Colonel
Lieut.-Colonel
Captain
Lieutenant
Cornet
Corporal
Horseman
£ s. d.
8 0 per day.
4 0
2 6
1 2
1 0
10
8
Horse.
£ s. d.
1 0 0
10 0
8 0
5 0
4 0
2 0
2 6
(Fortescue says that a horseman provided his own horse, and received a higher rate of pay.)
The following entry appears on the Journals of the House of Commons showing the pay of officers of the Parliamentary troops in 1647, but Fortescue states that at this period the pay of the Foot was 18 weeks, and the Horse 42 weeks in arrears.
Foot.
£ s. d.
Captain 8 0 per day.
Lieutenant 4 0
Ensign 2 6
Serjeant 1 0
Drummer 1 0
Corporal 1 0
Horse.
s. d.
Colonel (with 4 horses) 1 10 0
Major (with 3 horses) 1 1 0
Captain (with 2 horses) 14 0
Lieutenant (with 2 horses) 9 0
Cornet (with 2 horses) 8 0
Corporals and Trumpets 2 6
At a later date (1659) we find that the pay of a private soldier was 9d. per day, while the pay for the above ranks remained much the same. Archibald Sparke.
