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IN Quartering and Encamping of Souldiers, it is requisite, the Quarter-Master General, and all other under Quarter-Masters, be skilled at Foot measure, that so they may lay out their Quarters as directed.
The common allowance for the depth of Ground, that a Regiment of Horse or Foot will take up, the wideness must be answerable to
the Number of Men 200 Feet for the Huts in length, and 100 for the Commanders, and Sut∣lers, before them; every two Souldiers to a Hut, 8 Feet broad, and 8 Feet deep, 2 Feet Hut, from Hut, so that there may stand 20 Huts in the 200 Feet, the Ally betwixt Hut, and Hut, may be 8 Feet, that is 16 Feet in width, and 200 in length for 40 Men, which is 3200 Feet, and for the 100 Feet more, 1600 Feet, in all 4800 Feet, and there must be 25 Rows of Huts, for 1000 Men; so that for a Regiment of Foot containing 1000 Men, with Officers, and Sutlers, will take up 120000 Feet, which is 2 Acres and 3 Roods, which because of Ways may be allowed 3 Acres of Ground, for every Regiment, which may be 350 Feet deep, and 370 Feet wide, or near 360 Feet square: Now if 1000 Men, Officers, Sutlers, High-ways and all take up a Square of 360 Feet, how many Feet shall the Side of a Square be wherein 10000 Footmen, &c. may be encamped? say (by prop. 1. chap. 1.) as 1000, to 10000, so is the Square of 360, viz. 129600, to 1296000, the Square of 1138 Feet, which is very near 30 Acres of Ground.
For the Quartering of Horse, you must keep the same depth of 300 Feet for all, and take 200 Feet for the Huts, the Horse Huts must be 10 Feet deep, and 4 wide; so that 12 Horses may stand in one Hut together, which is 48 Feet long, and 10 wide, and 6 Feet a Street; The Huts for the Troops, will be 6, for 12 Troops; now conceive a Regiment to consist of 8 Troops, 50 to a Troop, it will take up leaving 20 Feet Streets, and Cross-ways, very near as much Ground as a Regiment of Foot, Ways and all must be allowed
3 Acres, near 360 Feet square, so that 10 Regi∣ments of Horse will take up 30 Acres: More∣over, it will be needfull and you may very well allow, as much ground as both Horse and Foot will take, for the Train of Artillery, Victuallers, Pa∣rade Places, &c. From these considerations the young beginner, nay even the better practised Souldier may receive help, and thereby be ena∣bled to Encamp an Army if required.