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A HISTORY OF SURREY tants being dead or gone. The intention at least of the authorities was good with regard to ' maimed soldiers,' those who were * at the town's end for the rest of their lives.' Lord Howard himself wrote to the magistrates on behalf of a poor disabled soldier, Thomas Tayler of Cobham, desiring that he should be properly relieved. 1 General direc- tions appear to the same purport several times. The duties of the deputy lieutenancy were so arduous that the number had to be raised. Besides Sir William More, they were Sir Thomas Browne, Sir William Howard of Lingfield, brother to the Lord Admiral, and Sir Francis Carew of Beddington, son to that Sir Nicholas Carew who had been executed by Henry VIII. in 1539, himself restored to land and favour by Queen Mary. He was now an elderly man. But Sir Thomas Browne was lax in his attendance to his duties,* and Sir William More was growing old. George More was associated with them in 1596. These were all rather civilian ministers of war than soldiers. The experience of real service was bringing forward a different class of man to exercise actual command. In 1595 there were 1,600 men in training in the county under a Captain Geoffrey Dutton, a man 'well exercised in the wars.' At another time the county levies are under Colonel Thomas Baskerville, also an experienced soldier. A considerable body of men in the country must have become really trained by service, for the foreign expeditions were continuous. In 1593 fifty men were raised to serve under Sir Francis Vere in the Netherlands. In 1594 a levy of 100 men was ordered to go to Brittany, but on the next day the number was reduced to fifty. In 1596 Surrey sent infantry to serve under Vere in the Netherlands and some horse to Ireland. Towards the victualling of the fleet in the same year it was called upon to supply bacon, the supply from other counties having failed. 3 In 1596 fifty men were raised for the garrison of Flushing. There was some anxiety in this year about the defence of the coasts. The care of the beacons had been relaxed by three several orders in 1591, 1593 and 1595, the last describing the business as being ' verie chargable unto the inhabi- tantes.'* But in 1596 they were ordered to be looked after again. The Spaniards took Calais from Henri IV. ; 500 men were hurriedly raised in Surrey to go to its relief, 6 but the French king declined to have Calais saved by English troops within forty years of its having been an English town, and the force was countermanded. The troops were apparently used to go on the Cadiz expedition in the same year. 8 When the Spaniards proceeded to threaten Boulogne also, aid from England was accepted, and 100 men were raised in Surrey to go thither. 7 The menace to England of Guisnes and the Boulonnais being overrun by the Spaniards was thought so serious that all the southern counties were fully armed, and in October 3,000 men were put in training in Surrey 1 Loseley MSS. October 17, 1593, xi. 57. * Ibid. March 23, 1595-6. 8 Ibid. March 24, 1595-6, vi. 75. * Ibid. November 5, 1595, vi. 88. 6 Ibid. April 9, n, 1596, vi. 95. 8 Ibid. January 17, j 596-7, vi. 105. Sir Richard Wingfield commanded them. 7 Ibid. September 20, 1596, vi. 98. Colonel Baskerville commanded them. 394