The document is a recruitment notice for the 22nd Regiment of Foot led by Thomas Gage, calling for aspiring heroes and gentlemen to join the ranks. It promises volunteers will be honorably entertained, receive pay, quarters, an advance of one guinea and a crown to drink to the king's health. New uniforms, equipment and all that is necessary to be a soldier will also be provided upon joining the regiment.
The School of Recreation (1696 edition)
Or a Guide to the Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting,
Riding, Racing, Fireworks, Military Discipline, The Science
of Defence
The document is a recruitment notice for the 22nd Regiment of Foot led by Thomas Gage, calling for aspiring heroes and gentlemen to join the ranks. It promises volunteers will be honorably entertained, receive pay, quarters, an advance of one guinea and a crown to drink to the king's health. New uniforms, equipment and all that is necessary to be a soldier will also be provided upon joining the regiment.
The document is a recruitment notice for the 22nd Regiment of Foot led by Thomas Gage, calling for aspiring heroes and gentlemen to join the ranks. It promises volunteers will be honorably entertained, receive pay, quarters, an advance of one guinea and a crown to drink to the king's health. New uniforms, equipment and all that is necessary to be a soldier will also be provided upon joining the regiment.
The document is a recruitment notice for the 22nd Regiment of Foot led by Thomas Gage, calling for aspiring heroes and gentlemen to join the ranks. It promises volunteers will be honorably entertained, receive pay, quarters, an advance of one guinea and a crown to drink to the king's health. New uniforms, equipment and all that is necessary to be a soldier will also be provided upon joining the regiment.
And inclinations to become gentlemen By bearing arms in His Majefty's 22d Regiment of Foot Ably commanded by the magnanimous Thomas Gage
Let them repair to the drum head (tow-row-dow)
Where each gentleman volunteer fhall be kindly and honourably entertained And enter into prefent pay & good quarters. Befides which, gentlemen, For your further and better encouragement You fhall receive one guinea advance And a crown to drink His Majefty King George's health.
And when you come to join your refpective
Regiment Shall have new hats, capps, arms, cloaths, and accoutrements And every thing that is necefsary and fitting To compleat a gentleman foldier.
The School of Recreation (1696 edition)
Or a Guide to the Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting,
Riding, Racing, Fireworks, Military Discipline, The Science
of Defence