notice, as it has excited the well-warranted indignation
of all who have execrated these bargains for the sale
of human blood. It runs: “According to custom,
three wounded men shall be reckoned as one killed; a
man killed shall be paid for at the rate of levy-money.”
This clause, which does not appear in the subsequent
treaty with Hesse-Cassel, stands in the Brunswick
treaty in the same article with, and immediately
before, the provision for making good any extraordinary
loss from battle, pestilence, or shipwreck. It may be
taken to mean that the King of England undertook to
bear the expense of a recruit to fill the place of a
Brunswick soldier actually killed in battle, but that the
Duke must replace at his own cost one who deserted
from the ranks or died of sickness, unless in case of an
“uncommon contagious malady.” Yet if this be the
interpretation, what is the meaning of the “three
wounded men.” Kapp, moreover, rejects this
explanation, and asserts that new recruits were paid for by
levy-money in addition to the 30 crowns received for
the killed and wounded, and that this blood-money
was pocketed by the prince and not by the family of
the soldier, nor by himself, if wounded.[1] At any rate,
the fact remains that the Duke of Brunswick contracted
to receive a sum amounting to about $35 for every
one of his soldiers who should be killed in battle, and
$11.66 for every one who should be maimed. It is
probably now impossible to discover how much
England actually paid out on this account. The payments
were not entered under their proper heading in the
bills sent to Parliament from the War Office. Kapp
- ↑ Sÿbel's “Historische Zeitschrift," II. 6=42, 1879, p. 327.
