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43 miscellaneous military documents including eight documents (1781 April 1-1781 July 11) which pertain to account expenditures at Portsmouth, Virginia by Lieutenant James Straton, Engineer. Two documents (1783 October 30 and 1783 October) regard expenditures at Gosport for the construction of works and are signed by James Moncrieff. Five printed orders regard the distribution of engineers (1784 November 29), the change of the name of ‘Corps of Engineers’ to ‘Corps of Royal Engineers’ (1787 April 25 and 1787 October 10), financial aid for British foot soldiers for the purchase of bread (1792 January 4) and the revision of the sentence in the court-martial of John Cambel (1792 May 22). One document titled “Articles of Agreement” between an unknown party and John and Coutts Trotter pertains to the supply of wagons and horses for the Field Train of Artillery (1792 June ). A report titled “Examination of the coast of Kent” is in the hand of Moncrieff and regards the placements of guns and batteries (1793 January ). The remaining documents are a mixture of lists of Quarters of troops in Great Britain, and miscellaneous accounting papers directly related to military sundries and other payments.

2 Military account books, one of which includes issues of rations to men, women and children, Chief Engineers Department, and the other which includes the accounts of Christopher Teesdale with James Moncrieff.