Continuing to Crowd Fund the Volunteers: The Second donor lists for the Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry - July 1794
Continuing to Crowd Fund the Volunteers: The Second donor lists for the Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry - July 1794 Plate from P C G Webster, The Records of the Queen’s Own Royal Regiment of Staffordshire Yeomanry, Lichfield & London, 1870. Money, as Cicero noted, is the nerves of war and the founding of a regiment of horse needed a lot of it. A month after the initial publication of the list of donors, who were making the raising of the Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry possible, a second list was published of people who made its success probable. The list contained 173 names and represented the spread of the appeal from the great and good to the greatish and generally well intentioned. Both lists reveal this to be a project in which, in the early Summer of 1794, required motivated collectors as some communities rallied to this Staffordshire project, while others, less connected to the heart of the county, stood by. The Shrewsbury Chronicle Friday 25th July 1794. [1]...