 | Jonathan Swift - 1902 - 468 trang
...which those confederates had so long, and in so great degree, neglected. The Duke of Marlborough's deduction of two and a half per cent, from the pay of the foreign troops, was also applied for carrying on the war." Lastly, within this period is to be included the Act passed... | |
 | Walter Temple Willcox - 1908 - 510 trang
...in Flanders as a fund for secret service, and he added of his own accord that he had also received a deduction of two and a half per cent from the pay of the foreign troops, which had been applied to the same object. But this defence, though absolutely valid and sound, could... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1902 - 482 trang
...which those confederates had so long, and in so great degree, neglected. The Duke of Marlborough's deduction of two and a half per cent, from the pay of the foreign troops, was also applied for carrying on the war.2 Lastly, within this period is to be included the Act passed... | |
 | Sidney Dark - 1928 - 374 trang
...of 1711 he was publicly accused of receiving £70,000 from a Jewish army contractor and of deducting two and a half per cent, from the pay of the foreign soldiers in the English service, and the Queen dismissed him from all employment. It is probable, as... | |
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... intelligence; and to have pocketed a deduction of two and a half per cent, from the pay of the foreign troops maintained by England. 
