STRATHSPEY REGIMENT.. Sir, His Majesty having been pleased to appoint me Colonel of a Corps of Fencibles, to be raised in Inverness, and the neighbouring counties, for the protection of North Britain,......1793

[Edinburgh: n.p., Folio (340 x 215 mm), [4]pp., dated on p. [1]: Edinburgh, 2d March 1793, 3, folded as issued, uncut, a fine copy. With reference to the "Grant Fencible Regiment", that is the Strathspey Regiment of Fencible Men, instituted on 1 March 1793, and commanded by Sir James Grant The form of commission for a Captain in the Regiment with instructions on raising a Company which include "the Regiment should be completed within three months from this date..... You, as Captain, are at liberty to appoint the non-commissioned Officers of your own Company,..... No man is to be inlisted above 45 years of age, or under five feet four inches; but well made, growing Lads, between 16 and 18 years of age, may be taken at five feet three inches..... The Pay of the Officers to commence from the dates of their Commissions,..... each Serjeant, Corporal, Drummer and Private have an allowance of Three halfpence per day of Bread-money;.... each Recruit must have the following articles, viz, Two Shirts; Two pair of Shoes, Two pair fine Hose; A Bonnet and Feathers; A black Stock; A Haversack; all of which to be purchased out of his Bounty;.... The Regiment is to serve in any part of Scotland, but not to march out of it, except in case of Invasion of the more Southern parts of the Kingdom...." The British Library and National Library of Scotland copies only in the ESTC.