i. 408, 539, 549;

votes money for the wars, 450, 514; recruiting Acts, 563; impatience over increased expenditure, 580 1714-1739, attempts to disband army after Utrecht, ii. 3; encroachments on war administration, 18-21; meanness to soldiers, 45 1755-1763, adds to establishment, ii. 288, 299, 520; Pitt's influence on Commons, 358; objection of to Mutiny Act, 562; efforts to establish short service, 572

Partab Singh (Rajah of Tanjore, 1749), ii. 195

Partisan. _See_ Arms and Armour

Passe-Volant, the, i. 319

Paston Letters, i. 73

Pauncenars, i. 27

Pay, William Rufus first misappropriates, i. 9; contracts under Edward II. and III., 21; pay of all ranks in 1346, 30, 31; of archers, 54; of gunners, 66; of artillery, 77; embezzlement by officers, 70, 86, 110, 124, 128, 157, 319, 337, 346; stoppages of, 110; pay raised under Mary, 126; troops defrauded by Elizabeth, 130; attempts at reform in, 153; pay of privates under Elizabeth, 156; coat and conduct money, 197; unwillingness of Parliament to pay men, 230; under Cromwell, 284; poundage licence, 311; under Charles II., 314-321; peculations at pay office, 329; corruptness of officials, 348; arrears of under William III., 381-385; petitions to Parliament on, 389; embezzlement of Paymaster-General, 409; Controllers of Accounts appointed, 410; Marlborough's reforms in, 571; frauds of regimental agents, 576; regimental debts, 577; of colonial troops in 18th century, 561; George I. tries to stop illegal deductions, ii. 30; mutinies owing to stoppages, 579; table of pay, 1739-1763, 580; of artillery, 587

Paymaster-General, i. 310, 408

Pedro the Cruel, i. 44

Pelham, Henry, ii. 262, 268

Pelham, Sir William, i. 149

Peninsular War, i. 447-456, 458-464

Penn, William, i. 260; ii. 57, 295

Pennsylvania, apathy of colonists in, ii. 270

Pepperrell, Sir William, ii. 258, 269

Pepys, Samuel, i. 312

Perth, James Drummond, Duke of, ii. 127

Pescayra, Marquis of, i. 97; in command of Spaniards at Zutphen, 149, 179, 184

Peterborough, Earl of, character, i. 459; Barcelona, 462; methods of warfare, 477, 480, 488; opens road to Madrid, 482; different opinions of, 489

Petition of Rights, i. 198

Petronel. _See_ Arms and Armour

Peyton, Commodore, ii. 180

Philip of Anjou, i. 397, 447, 481; King of Spain, 483, 531

Phipps, Sir William, ii. 252

Pigot, Mr., ii. 199

Pike. _See_ Arms and Armour

Pioneers, i. 219

Pistol. _See_ Arms and Armour

Pitt, Mr. Thomas, advocates short service, ii. 573

Pitt, William. _See_ Chatham

Placentia, troops in, ii. 44

Plasencia, i. 482

Pocock, Admiral, ii. 429; defeats French, 434; judgment of, 456, 541

Polier, Major, ii. 431

Pompadour, Madame de, i. 298, 339

Pondicherry, ii. 173; surrender of to English, 473

Port l'Orient, expedition to, ii. 156

Porteous, Captain, ii. 31

Portland, Duke of, i. 390

Portugal, King of, joins Grand Alliance, i. 415

Portuguese first to gain a footing in India, ii. 168

Powder. _See_ Arms and Armour

Prideaux, Brigadier, ii. 369

Pulteney, William, ii. 5, 17

Purchase, i. 578; ii. 30

Quebec, ii. 242; Wolfe's expedition, against, 359, 388

Queen's shilling, origin of, i. 9

Quesnoi, i. 548

Raja Sahib (Nabob, 1752), ii. 201, 203, 216

Rajahmundy captured by British, ii. 445

Ranelagh, Lord, ii. 469

Recruits, origin of Queen's shilling, i. 9; fictitious recruits, 86; Spanish system of recruits, 100; English press-gangs, 145; under Charles I., 194; Cromwell's, 203; kidnapping resorted to, 382; discouragement to, 560; abuses of recruiting, 565; Recruiting Acts, 564, 566; short service, 567; maladministration of recruiting under Harley, 568; mere boys enlisted, 572; faggots, 573; expense of obtaining, 574; Secretary-at-War enforces recruiting, 583; character of under George I., ii. 32; fraudulent enlistment, 34; abundance of in 1739, 57; ill-faith of authorities to, 290; Pitt's endeavours to obtain, 476; Recruiting Acts, 1743, 1759, 573-579

Redoubt d'Eu, the, at Fontenoy, i. 113

Regiment, name comes into use, ii. 136

Regiments:-- Cavalry-- First Life Guards, i. 291, 324, 375; ii. 95 Second Life Guards, i. 291, 321 Royal Horse Guards (Blues), i. 291, 321, 388; ii. 95 (Dettingen), 119 (Fontenoy), 344, 511 (Warburg) First Dragoon Guards (King's), i. 300, 388, 511, 525; ii. 22, 95 (Dettingen), 349, 501, 511 (Warburg), 527, 555 Second Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays or Bays), i. 300, 344, 447, 458, 482, 487 (Almanza), 530; ii. 7, 501, 511 (Warburg), 527 Third Dragoon Guards, i. 300, 388, 442, 471, 475, 511, 525;