Order Book of the 72nd Regiment

T [or J] Lomax sg. 1780' is inscribed on the flyleaf.

'J. LOWE 4 October I sent this book to John Greaves' is inscribed inside end board (Neither name appears in the Army Lists, 1779, 1780, 1781)

The information in this volume is largely included by John Drinkwater, former Lieutenant of the 72nd Regiment in his 'History of the Siege of Gibralter' (1790)

Contains:-

Subsistance; extracts and memorandums concerning Gibralter; some accounts of the taken (taking) of Gibralter of Sir George Rooke with some previous things to that event (commences with events in 1699); some accounts of the attempts against Gibralter by the Spaniars in 1704 and 1705; casuals in Captain Nangreav's company, 18 Feb 1781; directions for the non commissioned officers of the 72nd Regiment; (a page torn out); orders for the sergeant and corporals; While friends in England have a good cheer .... (poem); Estimate of different articles and different prices during a long and tedious seige and blockade of Gibralter from 21 June 1779 to 2 Feb 1783; [St]ate of the garrison on the sortie, 27 Nov 1781; 22 Apr 1783 [orders for the parade] of knighting of His Excellency General Elliott with the Order of the Bath; [account of above parade]; total strength; officers killed; account of firing on both sides during seige (by the enemy from 12 Apr 1781 to 3 Feb 1783, by the garrison from 12 Sep 1779 to 3 Feb 1783); retuRn of the men died of sickness, discharged and deserted from 12 [Apr] 1781 to 3 Feb 1783; 12 Apr 1781, return of the killed and wounded by the enemy fire of shot and shell during the siege from the 12 Apr 1781 to 3 Feb 1783; list of the Spanish junk ships, 13 Sep 1783.

Sep 1783-Jul 1784 weaving accounts; [Valentine in verse and draft? of accompanying letter 1784?] [ Recipes for]:- pills for a gonorrhoea or clap, white gingerbread, best gingerbread, blacking, red bottle, for a cough, how to S.G.U., for yellow, composition, ?, gingerbeer, for waterproofing, for varnishing, for cleansing rotten teeth, for rheumatism, to make compo, orders, May-June 1842, for pieces of cloth (?)