A soldier’s meagre recompense: the pay for an ordinary Parliamentarian soldier during the

A soldier’s meagre recompense: the pay for an ordinary Parliamentarian soldier during the #englishcivilwar was 8 pence a day. This is a fourpence, thruppence and a penny coined in the 1630s. But you’d be unlikely to see the full amount though - deductions were made for your clothes, shoes, arms, food and lodging (soldiers serving in Dublin in 1641 received only one pence out of their four shillings and eight pence weekly pay after deductions) and pay was usually weeks, if not months, in arrears and proper payment of their wages was a constant demand of Parliamentarian soldiers.
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