The Pay of a Private Horseman for a Year , as he is now Paid , after all Deductions that are to be taken from Him , which are for Poundage , Hospital , and Agents , Comes to — 23l . 14s . 7d . ¼ For which he is to be Accounted with as followeth .

  l. s . d . q . For his Subsistence , and other Necessaries for himself , and Horse , at six shillings a week 15 12 00   For a Coat and a Hat , for which he shall have a particular Account 02 16 00   The Remainder of his Pay , for which he is to be Accounted with every three Months 05 06 07 ¼   23 14 07 ¼ Each Corporal , Kettle-Drum , and Trumpet , is to have for his Subsistence weekly 10 s .         The Pay of a Private Dragoon for a year , as he is now Paid , after all Deductions that are to be taken from him ; which are for Poundage , Hospital , and Agents , comes to 18 09 03 ½ For his Subsistence , at 4s . 6d . a week 11 14 00   For his Clothing , at 2 . a day for 336 days 02 16 00   Remainder of his Pay , for which he is to be Accounted with every three Months 03 19 03 ½   18 09 03 ½ Each Serjeant of Dragoons to have 8 s . a week .         Each Corporal , Drum , and Hoboy to have 4s . 6d . weekly for subsistence         The Pay of a Private Centinel in the Regiment of Guards , for a year , as he is now paid , after all Deductions that are to be taken from him , which are for Poundage , and Hospital , comes to 10 12 09 ½ For his Subsistence , at two shillings six pence a week 06 10 00   His Clothing and Accoutrements , as now Clothed 03 02 04   Remainder of his Pay , for which he is to be Accounted with at the end of every year 01 00 05 ½   10 12 09 ½

We are pleased that every private Horseman and Dragoon , shall be fairly Accounted with by his Officer every three Months , for the overplus of his Pay which remains after his Subsistence and Clothing is satisfied .

And whereas it may happen that several Captains of Horse and Dragoons are necessitated to mount some of their private Men , by which the said Men may be indebted for the said Horses ; We are pleased that the Officer may Reimburse himself out of the said Mans Pay by reasonable Deductions , allowing Him a Reasonable Subsistence to Maintain Himself and his Horse , such as the Collonel or Commandant of each Regiment shall direct . No Deduction is to be made for Clerks , We allowing of none in any Troop or Company of this Army ; but expecting that every Captain by Himself , or one of his Officers whom he shall appoint shall keep the Accounts of the Troop or Company ; and shall take especial care that the Men keep their Arms , Clothes , Linnen , and other Accoutrements whole , neat , and clean .

And in Case any of the Souldiers of this Army shall Fail of Receiving their aforesaid Subsistence weekly , and their Clothes and other Accoutrements provided for as aforesaid . We do allow any number not exceeding Five of any Troop or Company that shall be Agrieved , to send up Their Petition to vs by the Post , in Behalf of the Said Troop or Company , for Redress , as often as They shall have Iust Occasion of Complaint .

And We do Declare , That if any Captain or other Officer in this Kingdom , do Detain any part of the said weekly Subsistence , or of the Clothing and Accoutrements aforesaid , otherwise than as aforesaid is directed , that he shall be Punished with the utmost severity that the nature of the Offence does deserve .

We do Straitly Charge and Command all Officers of this His Majesty's Army , to see that Almighty God be duly and reverently served , and that they do take Especial Care in their Respective Garrisons and Quarters to give good example to those under their Commands by a religious sober and orderly demeanor , and that they do not only themselves abstain but restrain all persons under them from Blasphemy , prophane Swearing , and Cursing , Drunkness and from all other Leudness and Debauchery whatever , but on the contrary that they do duly and reverently serve God by Frequenting the Churches and Chappels at the times of Divine service at least on Sundays and Holidays ; and that those who do either wilfully absent themselves or misbehave themselves there be sevearly punished , That all the Roman Catholick Souldiers in this Army do always at Easter and at least once every year besides Receive the holy Sacrament , of which each Souldier is to produce a Certificate to the Collonel of each Regiment or Commandant of the place , under the hand of the Priest from whom he received the same on pain of loosing three Months pay for Each Default herein .

We strictly require all the Chaplains of this Army that they duly attend their respective Regiments , and that at least one Chaplain be constantly with each Regiment , and that they do at least on Sundays and Holydays Catechise and exhort the Souldiers and hear their confessions at Easter and other Vsual Feasts , We do expect that the said Officers and Soldiers shall in all other particulars behave and demean themselves as becomes good Christians and Loyal Subjects ; that they do not insult any of the Magistrates or Inhabitants on their March or in their Quarters , nor offer any violence to their persons or goods , And that no Officer shall presume to Quarter any Officers or Souldiers under his Command , but by the billets of the proper Magistrates , and that on their March no Officer or souldier doe Press any of the Kings Subjects , Horses or Carriages , but by the assistance and Warrant of the Magistrate or other Civil Officer of the place who are to Furnish them for their mony they paying the usual Rates for the same .

And whereas we expect that all Officers and Souldiers in his Majesties Pay shall keep within their respective Garrisons not having leave from us or their Officers , according to the Rules proscribed by our said Declaration of the 20th of July last past We doe hereby require all Officers of the Army , Mayors , Iustices of the Peace , High and Petty Constables , and all other his Majesties Officers Ministers Civil and Military , that wherever they shall find any privat Souldiers stragling from their Garrisons or Quarters not having sufficient passports in writing , to seize them and send them to the next Garrison or Quarters , from whence they are to be sent from quarter to quarter till they come to the Garison or Quarter to which they belong , of which the Commandant in the respective Garrisons is to take notice and to see our pleasure in this particular duly executed .

And We having thought fit by our Orders lately issued to the Collonel or Commandant of each Regiment of Horse to make known our pleasure that but one Trumpet be allowed in each Troope of Horse , as by his Majesties Establishment is provided , and that one of the Trumpets now entertained be forthwith discharged ; and a good Horse-man well mounted and accoutred be put presently in the place of the Trumpet to be dismised , We leaving it to the Election of the Captain of each Troop to dismiss which of the two Trumpets at present imployed he shall think fit , as also that no Officers servant shall ride in the Ranks of any Troop excepting one of the Cornets who is to carry the Standard , and that no man on any pretence whatever shall ride in the Ranks of any Troop that is not a real Trooper , or has any dependance on any Officer whatever , as also requiring the Lieutenant-Collonels and Majors of Horse and Dragoons , to visit every Troop in their respective Regiments at least once in two Months ; and the Majors in Regard they have no Troopes of their own , that they shall stay four or five dayes in each Horse Quarter , that they may be fully acquainted with the state and Condition of each Troop , and may know their Order and disciplin and be inabled to give us a distinct account thereof , which We expect they shall do once Every two Months by giving us in , a Roll of each Troop with the Men and Officers Names Markt in it , that are Present and Absent , together with the cause of their Absence , as also an account of what Men and Horses they Iudge unfit for the Kings Service . We do Strictly charge and Command all Officers of Horse and Dragoons Concerned to see this our pleasure presently and punctually executed as they will answer the Contrary on Forfeiture of their respective Commissions .

All Officers and Soldiers , of his Majesties Army are hereby strictly required upon demand to be aiding and Assisting to any of the Civil Magistrates in following and apprehending of any Tories or Robbers , or Supressing of Riots and Tumults , and to his Majesties Officers of the Customs and Excise in the due execution of their Imployment in hindering his Majesty from being defrauded of his just duties , and by no means to be Aiding or Assisting to any that shall be concerned in any such practices upon pain of undergoing the utmost Severities that the nature of the Fact shall deserve .

And whereas great Abuses have been commited by the Liberty heretofore taken by Officers of Impresting Mony in the Treasury in behalf of the Troops and Companies under their Command , We do Strictly will and Require that no Officer on any pretence whatever shall Imprest any of the Souldiers pay .