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Kingsbridge Volunteers 1801
Trewman's Exeter Flying Post Thursday, May 21, 1801;
Issue 1956 (Gale Document no Y3200647455)
Transcribed by
Brian Randell
To the Right Hon. Hugh Earl Fortescue, the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Devon, to the Magistrates of the said County, and to Lieut. General Simcoe, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Forces in the Western District of this Kingdom.
WE the Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, Drummers, and Privates of the KINGSBRIDGE VOLUNTEERS, take this Opportunity of declaring, that we are ready to aid and assist the Civil Power to the utmost of our Abilities, whenever called upon, for suppressing any riotous or unlawful Assembly, and to maintain to the utmost of our Power the Laws and Constitution of our Country.
Richard Hawkins, Captain Roger Ilbert Prideaux, Lieutenant William Elliott, Ensign, James Balter, Permanent Serjeant Andrew Scoble, Serjeant William Cox, Ditto John Elliott, Ditto James Manning, Ditto Robert Eddy, Ditto Charles Barns, Ditto James Treby, Drummer Nicholas Heath, Ditto John Cox, ¹rivate Robert Cox, Ditto Willia Davie, Ditto | John Distain, Private John Eston, Ditto John Gillard, Ditto Thomas Hammett, Ditto Samuel Hammett, Ditto John Lane, Ditto Peter Lock, Ditto Edward Mathews, Ditto John Pearse, Ditto Thomas Sharland, Ditto William Sinkins, Ditto Eli Sinkins, Ditto George Sinkins, Ditto John Trist, Ditto John Tickell, Ditto William Treby, Ditto Frs. Weymouth, Ditto |
Newton Bushel, March 31st, 1801
The following Privates, on cool consideration, feeling the Unpleasantness of refusing to take the Oath prescribed, have requested to be again admitted into the above Corps; and having chearfully taken the Oath required, their Names are here inserted, and ordered to be struck out of the List inserted in the latter Part of this Advertisement.
Philip Ellis | Francis Fabis | Philip Moyset |
We, the above-named Volunteers, think it a Duty which we owe to our gracious Sovereign, and the Loyal Public in general, to publish the Names of the under-mentioned Privates, who, on the Parade, the 3d of May instant, refused to take the Oath of Allegiance to his Majesty, and to Support the Civil Power. In consequence of this refusal, they were ordered to Parade the following Day, and deliver up their Cloathes, Arms, and Accoutrements, when they were dismmissed from the said Corps.
Richard Blake William Burgoyne James Bennett William Barter Thomas Ball John Cole Benefict Cowling William Collings Samuel Elliott John Eddy William Gilbert William Giles Thomas Murch, jun. | William Hammett John Hingston William Hayne George Jordan George Kellon William Lane John Millar Walter Millar George Mabyn William Mortimer John Mortimer John Scoble | Samuel Newland James Narramore Frederick Port, jun. William Physick William Ryder Richard Reeves Richard Roper Robert Steed Robert Turns Richard Whiting William Wakeham George Woolaton |
RICHARD HAWKINS,
Commander of the Kingsbridge Volunteers
Headquarters, Kingsbridge, May 5, 1801.