Interesting that MI5 was his pay master!
They could also serve as the pay master for a legion.
And all the time they (the Tories) had their fingers in all the pies looking for handouts from their pay masters.
In 1703 his persistent lobbying for office was rewarded; two years later he obtained the post of pay master to Queen Anne's forces overseas.
Well, perhaps but not the way Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld and Brzezinski's pay masters had envisaged.
They haven't got a clue, just doing what their told to make more money for their pay masters.
I'd get nervous too if I had to continually lie for my pay masters.
In addition, there were two native pay masters, one interpreter and one armourer, who were probably civilians as no rank had been mentioned.
I actually feel quite sorry for James as he will have done what any rational person would do... that is to follow his pay master's bidding.
In 1837 he went to Ireland as pay master of civil services, and set himself to the promotion of various measures of reform.