Note 430 — Chapter XII
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Conway complained much of the drafts from the independent companies sent to Germany, the men being weakly, young, and undersized (Secretary's Common Letter Book, 2nd June 1761; and see Correspondence of George III. with Lord North, vol. i. p. 265). The King ascribes the system to Charles Townsend, but it was begun before he became Secretary-at-War.