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to meet their need. Besides that, they are given four measures of wheat per month, or metel[1] per man, which are large enough to feed them: To the Captain, 24. To the Lieutenant, 16. to the Ensign, 12. & 8. to the Sergeants. As for wine & meat, there is no mention of it, because they have to buy it, but if they are in the country of enemies, the reins are released to them at times to seize it or they can catch it, & the same rate is placed on the food brought into the camp. Regarding the horse soldiers, the gendarme at 20 escus per month; the Dizainier or Squad Captain, 24. the Captain, 100. the Lieutenant, 60. the Ensign, forty; & the quartermaster, 30. The light horse ten, the corporal, or squad leader 12. the captain, 50, the lieutenant thirty; Ensign, 20. & the Quartermaster, 15. Besides that, just like the soldiers on foot, they are supplied with wheat & oats for themselves & their horses, especially when they are in the Kingdom, or in territory of allies & even in enemy territory, when there is nothing in the countryside to forage. The gendarme at 16. measures of wheat, for |
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1. Metel: "Meteil, as Metail; also, typhe wheat, bearded wheat, flat wheat, Roman wheat." A second definition: Metail, "Messlin, or Masslin; wheat & Rye mingled, sowed, & used together." |
