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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.