| Description | Book entitled 'Scale of ship's rations' but used for several additonal purposes. Includes extracts from orders issued on the victualling of troops when embarked on ships, and lists the rations allowed for men, women and children, with substitute foodstuffs. Contains sections on the costs of the articles of uniform and equipment issued and payments made; recipes for foods, rheumatism cures, cleaning materials, mahoghany stain and gold lacquer; numbers of dogs and pigs bought and sold; a history of the Coote family; changes of sheets and bedding issued to the barracks; wages paid and sums paid to recruiting sergeants; a list of names and regimental numbers of recruits that joined 1857-1860. |