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Jobs for Nobles
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Men, and to a lesser extent women, at court whether they are peers or commoners can seek jobs that pay a certain amounts. Some jobs are just for the honours, others require actual work.
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Military Pay
Next to pay, loot was an important form of income for the soldiers or sailors. The ship and its cargo would be split between the crew, and this was also true for the army with regards to any plunder that was captured and auctioned. Of course more often than not the plunder and loot 'disappeared' rather than end up in official hands.
In general officer ranks and any rank in the Life Guard had to be purchased through a commission, and thus were frequently sold too, with sums running up in the thousands of pounds for the highest positions. Standing armies were not the norm, only the Household Cavalry, including the Life Guard at this time, in charge of the safety of the King and the Royal Family. There was a fear that a standing army might riot and turn upon its own people. Buying commissions ensured officers were gentlemen loyal to the crown. It also ensured that they were able to pay for the upkeep of their soldiers if the King ran out of money.
Corruption was another additional form of income for officers. The pay (when supplied), or money for equipment, was given to the officer who distributed it to the men or purchased the equipment. It was a common practise to pad the muster rolls and submit pay for 100 men when only 60 men were under arms. It was also common practise during the infrequent reviews to "borrow" missing equipment (and even men) from another regiment to "make up the difference". Officers might be engaged in selling off equipment, even to the enemy.
Infantry Regiments
- Private: 10s/month or about 4d/day; -4s/month for food, uniform, and supplies
- Drummer: 15s/month or about 6d/day; -4s/month for food, uniform, and supplies
- Corporal: £1 2s/month or ~9d/day; -4/month for food, uniform, and supplies
- Sergeant: £1 15s/month or 1s 2d/day; -4s/month for food, uniform, and supplies
- Sergeant Major: £2/month or 1s 4d/day; -4s/month for food, uniform, and supplies
- Lieutenant: £5/month or 3s 4d/day; Must provide for own uniform and sword out of pocket
- Chaplain: £6 10s/month or 4s 4d/day; Must provde for own uniform out of pocket
- Surgeon: £10/month or 6s 8d/day; Must provide for own uniform out of pocket. -10s upon commission for surgeon's instruments and medicine chest and -5s each time medicine chest must be restocked.
- Captain: £10/month or 6s 8d/day; Must provide for own uniform and sword out of pocket.
- Major: £15/month or 10s/day; Must provide for own uniform and sword out of pocket.
- Lieutenant-Colonel: £20/month or 13s 4d/day; Must provide for own uniform and sword out of pocket.
- Colonel: £30/month or £1/day; Must provide for own uniform and sword out of pocket.
Cavalry Regiments
- Trooper: 15s/month or about 6d/day; -6s/month for food, uniform, and supplies (including supplies for their mounts)
- Coronet: £1/month or about 8d/day; -6s/month for food, uniform, and supplies (including supplies for their mounts)
- Corporal: £1 10s/month or 1s/day; -6/month for food, uniform, and supplies (including supplies for their mounts)
- Sergeant: £2/month or 1s 4d/day; -6s/month for food, uniform, and supplies (including supplies for their mounts)
- Ensign: £4 10s/month or 3s/day; Must provide for own uniform and sword out of pocket.
- Lieutenant: £6 10s/month or 4s 4d/day; Must provide for own uniform and sword out of pocket.
- Chaplain: £6 10s/month or 4s 4d/day; Must provde for own uniform out of pocket.
- Surgeon: £10/month or 6s 8d/day; Must provide for own uniform out of pocket. -10s upon commission for surgeon's instruments and medicine chest and -5s each time medicine chest must be restocked.
- Veterinary Surgeon: £10/month or 6s 8d/day; Must provide for own uniform out of pocket. -10s upon commission for surgeon's instruments and medicine chest and -5s each time medicine chest must be restocked.
- Captain: £15/month or 10s/day; Must provide for own uniform and sword out of pocket.
- Major: £20/month or 13s 4d/day; Must provide for own uniform and sword out of pocket.
- Lieutenant-Colonel: £28/month or 18s 6d/day; Must provide for own uniform and sword out of pocket.
- Colonel: £40/month or £1 6s 8d/day; Must provide for own uniform and sword out of pocket.
Life Guard Regiment
The ranks of the Life Guard are paid better, and are equal to a higher rank in the other regiments. The Titles featured here are the ones used in the game (fudge!).
- Trooper:£2 pounds a month; Must provide for own uniform and sword out of pocket.
- Corporal:£5 pounds a month; Must provide for own uniform and sword out of pocket.
- Sergeant Major: £10 pounds a month ; Must provide for own uniform and sword out of pocket.
- Lieutenant: £20 pounds a month ; Must provide for own uniform and sword out of pocket.
- Captain: £40 pounds a month; Must provide for own uniform and sword out of pocket.
- Major: £50 pounds a month; Must provide for own uniform and sword out of pocket.
- Colonel: £75 pounds a month; Must provide for own uniform and sword out of pocket.
Modifiers
Officer acting as a regimental adjutant: +30-50% pay.
Officer acting as brigade major: +30-50% pay.
Elite regiments: 1.5x pay.
Active-duty regiments: 2x pay.
Offices of the Crown
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Issues of Rank
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These are the offices and positions of the Crown. It should be noted that they were not always paid out. Not every office is available but maybe if you roleplay your way to it. See the list in your circle forum. You can gain an office by wielding Favour, also see the comments below on other ways ot make money.
The pay that is listed here should be augmented with bribes, graft and gifts. Be sure to inquire in your compendium and perhaps actively promote it in your roleplaying.
The government positions on the highest deputy level also come with with a Privy Council seat.
Gentlemen
- Fellow of the Royal Society - no stipend, just the honour
Lord Chamberlain's Office
- Vice Chamberlain (senior)- £ 250 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
- Lord Chamberlain's Secretariat and Office (junior)- £100 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
- Deputy Secretary (junior) - £100 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
- Deputy Northern Secretary of State (senior)- £ 250 a month, plus £ 250 for the secret service, plus a share in additional revenues
- Deputy Southern Secretary of State (senior) -£ 250 a month, plus £ 250 for the secret service, plus a share in additional revenues
- Master of Ceremonies (senior)- £250 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
- Assistant Master of Ceremonies (junior)- £100 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
- Envoy to country X (senior) (diplomat, not ambassador!)- - £ 250 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
- Deputy Envoy to country X (junior) - £100 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
Office of the Secretary of Scotland
- Armour Bearer (senior) - £ 250 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
- Bearer of the Royal Banner (senior, separate to the national flag which lauderdale holds)- £ 250 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
- Knight Marischal (junior), deputy to the Earl Marischal which is always a Keith. - £100 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
Office of the Treasury
- Keeper of the Privy Purse - £ 250 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
- Treasurer of the Chamber (Directly under the Privy Purse)- - £100 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
- Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (senior) - chief whip in Lords - £ 250 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
- Captain of the King's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard - deputy whip in Lords - £100 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
- Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners (junior) - assistant deputy whip in Lords - £50 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
Office of the Treasurer of the Navy
- Deputy Treasurer of the Navy - £ 250 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
Office of the Lord Steward
- Board of Green Cloth
- Master of the Household - £ 250 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
- Clerk of the Green Cloth - £100 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
- Chief Metropolitan Magistrate - £100 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
- Treasurer of the Household - £100 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
- Comptroller of the Household - £100 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
- Cofferer of the Household - £100 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
- Messenger to the Lord Steward - £50 a month
- Chamber Keepers - £50 a month
- Office Keeper - £50 a month
- Master of the Great Wardrobe - £ 250 a month
- Deputy Master of the Great Wardrobe - £100 a month
- Masters of the Buckhounds - £100 a month
- Master of the Harriers - £100 a month
- Royal Astronomer of England - £100 a month
- Royal Astronomer of Scotland - £50 a month
- Royal Astronomer of Ireland - £50 a month
- Royal Physician - £100 a month
- Serjeant Surgeon - £50 a month
- Coroner of the Verge - £50 a month
- Deputy Coroner - £20 a month
- His Majesty's Botanist - £100 a month
- Historiographer Royal - £100 a month
- Keeper of the King's Swans - £50 a month
- Board of Customs - £50 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
- Board of Excises - £50 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
- Council for Matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations - £50 a month, plus a share in additional revenues
Board of the East Indian Company
- Governor
- Director
- Committee member
- Correspondence Committee.
- Accountant-General
- Committee of Marine Records
- Medicinal Board
- Parliamentary Branch Committee
- Court of Proprietors
Board of the Hudson Bay Company
- Governor
- Director
- Committee member
- Correspondence Committee.
- Accountant-General
- Committee of Marine Records
- Medicinal Board
- Parliamentary Branch Committee
- Court of Proprietors
Board of the Royal African Company
- Governor
- Director
- Committee member
- Correspondence Committee.
- Accountant-General
- Committee of Marine Records
- Medicinal Board
- Parliamentary Branch Committee
- Court of Proprietors
Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Master and Treasurer of the Jewels and Plate -- £100 a month, plus a share of extra revenue
Royal Household
- Groom of the Robes (senior) - £ 150 a month, plus accommodation and meals
- Gentlemen of the Bedchamber of HM (peerage)- £75 a month, plus accommodation and meals
- Gentlemen in Extraordinary of HM (peerage)- £50 a month, plus accommodation and meals
- Grooms of the Bedchamber of HM (non peerage)- £20 a month, plus accommodation and meals
- Gentlemen Ushers of the Privy Chamber (peerage)- £50 a month, plus accommodation and meals
- Gentlemen Ushers of the Privy Chamber in Extraordinary (peerage)- £30 a month, plus accommodation and meals
- Grooms of the Privy Chamber (none peerage)- £20 a month, plus accommodation and meals
- Assistant Grooms of the Privy Chamber (none peerage)- £10 a month, plus accommodation and meals
- Gentlemen of the Bedchamber of York (peerage)- £50 a month, plus accommodation and meals
- Gentlemen in Extraordinary of York (peerage)- £30 a month, plus accommodation and meals
- Grooms of the Bedchamber of York (non peerage)- £10 a month, plus accommodation and meals
Ladies
- Member of the Society of the Orchid - no stipend, position of honour
Royal Household
- Mistress of the Robes to the Queen (senior): £25 per month,her accommodations and meals, and whatever ribbon and point (lace) she might acquire.
- Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen: : £20 per month,her accommodations and meals, and whatever ribbon and point (lace) she might acquire.
- Maids of Honor to the Queen: : £15 per month,her accommodations and meals, and whatever ribbon and point (lace) she might acquire.
- Lady in waiting to Lady York: : £15 per month,her accommodations and meals, and whatever ribbon and point (lace) she might acquire.
- Lady in waiting to Lady Mary: : £10 per month,her accommodations and meals, and whatever ribbon and point (lace) she might acquire.
