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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42595	A General and compleat list military of every commission-officer of horse and foot now commanding His Majesties land-forces of England (excepting the un-regimented companies) as also the proper distinctions of their cloathings, badges of honour, and colours of each troop and regiment : the names of the chief officers of the ordinance, and other officers belonging to the army : with a list of the royal band of gentlemen-pentioners and yeomen of the King's guard of his body : of the governours, lt. governours, and deputy-governours, throughout the kingdom : as establish't at the time of the revew upon Putney-Heath, the first of October, 1684 : as also an account of the said revew, &c.		1684 (1684)	Wing G487; ESTC R14469	12,033	23

A GENERAL AND COMPLEAT LIST MILITARY OF Every Commission-Officer of HORSE and FOOT Now Commanding His Majesties Land-Forces OF ENGLAND Excepting the Un-Regimented Companies AS ALSO The Proper Distinctions of their Cloathings Badges of Honour and Colours of each Troop and Regiment The Names of the Chief Officers of the Ordnance and other Officers belonging to the Army WITH A LIST Of the Royal Band of Gentlemen-Pentioners and Yeomen of the KING'S Guard of his Body Of the Governours Lt. Governours and Deputy-Governours throughout the Kingdom A● Establish't at the time of the Revew upon PUTNEY-HEATH the First of October 1684. As also an ACCOUNT of the said Revew c. LONDON Printed by J. Gain for Nathan Brooks ● Thomas Knapton's next Door to the Flying-Horse in Upper Moor-Fields 1684. TO THE READER FOr fear these Essays of Military Lists after all the unspeakable Drudgeries undergone to Collect and digist them into those Methods they are now publish't with should nevertheless in the first place not afford their managing Reader Drums and Trumpets enough for his Money nor in the second place afford their happy Author a ratling round vent enough of the whole Impression for his Pains which comes all to one Reckoning Are you Gentlemen who had perhaps rather read Men then Books without any further cutting upon good Nature bid most heartily welcome to make the Meal up with a Treat from Putney-Heath whose Camp and manner of Encamping described by an Eye Witness on the first of October 1684 is here over and above served up Gratis when but pleased to pay for the Dish you have it in That way endeavouring rather to give you all your B●llys-full if possible in the stead of some Meagre Advertisement garnish't with an hundred small Peccavi's to no purpose for unavoidable great Faults in all undertakings of this Nature indeed of all our standing Dish●● the most naus●ous whose craving sort of Rosemary some few may chan●● to look at but tasted of by no Body The major part then of those his Majesties Forces not moving from their Posts of present Duty of whom these scattering Sheets attempt to give the World some little light The remaining part quartered near hand Encamped the first of October upon Putney-Heath Officer and Souldier parading there not in less Gay and Splendid then in a Martial Equipage The Horse that day consisted of the three Troops of Guards and of their three of Granadiers of the Earl of Oxford's Regiment of Horse-Guards and the Lord Churchil's Regiment of Dragoons The Foot of two Battalions form'd from the Royal Regiment of Guards and their Granadiers of one Battalion from the Cole-stream Regiment of Guards and Granadiers of one Battalion from the Earl of Dunbarton's and their Granadiers and lastly of one from the Admiral Regiment The Horse and Foot imbodied and drawn in a continued Line took their proper Post upon a rising Ground in length from Right to Left near a Mile and half viz. from the Red House near the Bowling-Green extended cross the Heath and fronting to the River The Horse at their usual depth made four Squadrons vpon the Right Wing of which the Troops of Guards made three and their Granadiers one Th● Left Wing of Horse in the like manner made four Squadrons whereof my Lord of Oxford's Regiment formed two and my Lord Churchil's Dragoons the other The three Troops of Guards flanking in that Figure upon the Right of the main Body My Lord of Oxford's and my Lord Churchil's Regiments flanking it on the Left in all of Horse eight Squadrons each consisting of two Hundred The Admiral 's Battalion as youngest in the Field took their Post in the Centre of the Line The two Battalions of the Royal Regiment of Guards and Granadiers being drawn upon the Admiral 's Right were immediately Flanck't by the right Wing of Horse my Lord Dunbarton's Battalion and Granadiers being Posted on the Admiral 's Left and upon my Lord Dunbarton's Left was drawn the Colestream Battalion of Guards and Granadiers which the Left Wing of Horse immediately Flanck't All the Foot at their Order drawn four deep consisted of five Battalions each of eight Companies The Colestream my Lord Dunbarton's and the Admiral 's Battalions successively Exercised all three by Beat of Drum the Military Postures of Pike Sword and Musket every man dexterously discharging their Duties with an exact and general Readiness to the great Delight and Satisfaction of their Majesties and Royal Highnesses vouchsafing all the time of Exercise to grace their Arms with the Honour of their Presence The other two Battalions of the Royal Regiment had not fell short of the like Performance if Illness of Weather when they just intended it had not prevented The Day proving wet and showry was a general Impediment from proceeding at that time to any other Motions Customary upon the like Revews All Decampt sooner than otherwise they would have done The total Horse and Foot which then Rendivouz'd were above four Thousand advantagiously Trained and well clad Men. Commanded in the Field for that days Generalship by the Right Honourable the Earl of Craven ERRATA Page 5. l. 31. for differec't read differenc't p. 6. l. 20. f. Tho. Slingsby r. Sir Tho. Slin●s●y p. 12. l. 2. f. Laudstream r. Cauldstream p. 16. l. 14. f. Ba●ton r. Payton Both Author and Printer will mend their Hands should Encouragement be given for a Second Edition and the Un-Regimented Companies supplied A List of the ROYAL BAND of GENTLEMEN-PENTINOERS by the Right Honourable THEOPHILUS Earl of HUNTINGTON Commanded in Chief Theophilus Earl of Huntington Captain The Honourable Francis Vilars Lieutenant Sir Tho. Bloodworth Bar. Standard-bearer William Thomas Clerk of the Cheque Gentlemen Pentioners Thomas Hales Sir Tho. ●oe Knight Anthony Gawdy Hugh Teient Sir Robert Dacrees Knight Roger Conisby Abraham Clark John Hubbard John West William Ashton John Barnard Walter Baker George Farington Edward Courthrop Charles Gostwick Edward Glynn Sir Gerard Fleetwood Knight David Vivian Thomas Frances Charles Cludd Sir Tho. Knivefton Baronet Chistopher Turner William Rowley Edward Mainard Peter Lock John Estcourt Lancelot Lake Richard Willis Thomas Manning William Morgan Bernard Turner Ambrose Sycom Sir Theop. Janson Baronet John Cooper Charnock Heron Abraham Duplex Henry Bynn Thomas Orme Mil●s Marsh John Hastings Richard Child Gent. Harbinger The Royal Band of Gentlemen-Pentioners consists of Forty Gentlemen besides Officers the usual Arms they do Duty with are gilt Battle-Axes Their Standard is St. Georges Cross in a Field-Argent with four Bends The Captains pay is One Thousand Pound yearly The Lieutenants Five Hundred Pound Standard-bearers Three Hundred and Ten Pound Clerk of the Cheques One Hundred and Twenty Pound To each Gentleman of the Band One Hundred Pound yearly A List of the Commission-Officers and Yeomen of his Majesties Guard of his Body commanded by the Right Honourable George Lord Viscount Grandison George Lord Grandison Captain Thomas Howard Lieutenant Henry Dutton Colt Ensign Exempts William Houghton Sir Herbert

Whaly Thomas Orme Robert Sares The Honourable Charles Villars Clerk of the Cheque Yeomen Richard Dewel Yeomen-Ushers William Sherloc Yeomen-Ushers Richard Roiston Matthew Leper Edward Finch Thomas Skelton William Blackford Thomas Worth Daniel Jenings Richard Bowman Charles Webb William Crosier senior William Ford John Earling Edw. Brisco senior Yeomen-Ushers William Finch Yeomen-Ushers William Dover Thomas Nicolas William Woodrof John Smith William Attlee Nicholas Hawkins Daniel Lambert Ja. Trumble William Harvey junior Thomas Winsta●ley Isaac Snelling John Hebborn John Millart Yeomen-Ushers Dubble Brook Yeomen-Ushers Edward Hargrave Robert Stone Jonas Price Thomas Banister James Morgan John Ferrers Henry Harwar John Lambert Robert Norman Philip Willis Thomas Scott Richard Palmer Christo Sanders Yeomen Ushers John Sares Yeomen Ushers John Millart Abraham Story John Holmden Thomas Gilpin Henry Crow Joseph Collier Robert Fowler John Ki●ton Edward Ellis Jervis Thwaits Jo. Scorer John Tendring Jo. Templer Yeomen-Ushers Tho. Nicols Yeomen-Ushers Thomas Lambert John Inge William Crosier junior George Bulloc William Hobbs Ambrose Tooth William Wheatly John Beter James Palmer John Webster James Hassel William Green Tho. Bishop late Yeomen Usher Nicholas Lane Robert Thomson John Franks Edward Brisco junior William Jones Joseph Troit Yeomen-Usher Anthony Clark Thomas Thackam Thomas Frye Daniel Coyes Richard King Robert Parsons Yeomen Usher Robert Kidwell Richard St. Peire Henry Winchester Robert Radford Eleazer Coates Will. Harvey senior Yeomen-Usher Thomas Roberts Nicholas Caple William Bastian William Harrison Tho. Evans Yeomen-Usher Peter Hickman Tristram Thomas Thomas Smith Henry Meyson John Brayfield Ja. Evans Roger Jakson Chamber-keepers Thomas Coleman Deputy-Clerk of the Cheque This Guard cosists of one hundred Yeomen besides Officers of those Fifteen are appointed Sub-altern Officers or Yeom●n-Ushers with some additional Pay exceeding their fellow-Yeomen which to each is 30 l. yearly To a Yeomen-Usher 37 l. They wear large-skirted Scarlet Coats guarded with black Velvet badged with a Rose crown'd upon their Backs and Breasts Fifty of them armed with Ha●onebuziers Fifty with Partizans The Captains yearly pay 1000 l. The Lieutenants 500 l. Ensigns 300 l. Exempts 150 l. Clerk of the Cheque 200 l. A List of all Commission Staff-Officers in the Kings own Troop of Horse-Guards and Troops of Granadiers by his Grace Christopher Duke of Albemarle Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter commanded in Chief as eldest Colonel of Horse in his Majesties Kingdom of England Christopher Duke of Albemarle Captain Commanding as Colonel The honourable Edward Villars Lieutenants Commanding as Lieutenant Colonels Edmond Ashton Lieutenants Commanding as Lieutenant Colonels Edward Griffin Lieutenants Commanding as Lieutenant Colonels Richard Binns Lieutenants Commanding as Lieutenant Colonels Sir Walter Clarges Cornet Commanding as Majors The Right Honourable Jo. Ld. Ber●ley Guidon Commanding as Majors Stephen Dyer Quarter-master Commanding as Captain Lewis Billingsley Brigadiers Commanding as Lieutenants Robert Nowell Brigadiers Commanding as Lieutenants John Baynes Brigadiers Commanding as Lieutenants Edward S●mms Sub Brigadiers commanding as Assistants to the Brigadiers Tho. W●lford Sub Brigadiers commanding as Assistants to the Brigadiers Jo. Brailsford Sub Brigadiers commanding as Assistants to the Brigadiers George Nailor Sub Brigadiers commanding as Assistants to the Brigadiers The State-Major or Staff-Officers belonging to this Troop Dr. Ja. Gardiner Chaplain William Chapman Clerk Tho. Hobs Chirurgeon Hugh Fisher Trumpets Ben. Ragois Trumpets Michael Mear Trumpets John Basset Trumpets Robert Mawgridge Kettle Drum Granadiers attending this Troop of Guards John Parker Lieutenants Tho. Guy Lieutenants two Sergants two Corporals Hautbois 4. Drums 2 Private men 64. This Troop of Guards consists of 200 besides Officers distinguish't by their Carbine Belts of Velvet laced with Gold and Silver by their red Hooses and Holster-Caps embroidered with the Royal Cypher and Crown Coated and Cloaked in Scarlet lined with Blew The Standard Crimson with the Royal Cypher and Crown the Guidon differenced only from the Standard by being rounded and slit at the end The Captains pay of this Troop per diem 01 l. 10 s. The Lieutenants 15 s. The Cornets 14 s. The Guidons 12 s. Quarter-masters 9 s. Brigadiers 7 s. Sub-brigadiers equal with the Kings pay of a private man which is daily 4 s. The Granadiers of this Troop have blew Loops tufted with Yellow upon Red Coats lined Blew with Granadier Caps lined the same and a Blew round mark on the outside armed with Bayonets and Harquebuzes The Lieutenants pay per diem of Granadiers to this Troop 8 s. Serjents 4 s. Corporals 3 s. Private men Hautbois and Drums 2 s. 6 d. A List of all Commission and Staff-Officers in the Queen's Troop of his Majesties Horse-Guards and Troop of Granadiers Commanded by the Honourable Sir Philip Howard Sir Philip Howard Captain Commanding as Colonel Sir George Hewyt Bar. Lieutenants Commanding as Lieutenant Colonels Sir John Fenwick Bar. Lieutenants Commanding as Lieutenant Colonels Charles Orby Cornet Commanding as Majors The Honourable John Darcy Guidon Commanding as Majors William Upcott Quarter-Master Commanding as Captain Gorge Collingwood Brigadiers Commanding as Lieutenants John Staples Brigadiers Commanding as Lieutenants John Chittam Brigadiers Commanding as Lieutenants Sir Richard Brown Bar. Brigadiers Commanding as Lieutenants Richard Beale Sub-Brigadiers Commanding as Assistants to the Brigadiers Richard Barham Sub-Brigadiers Commanding as Assistants to the Brigadiers George Howard Sub-Brigadiers Commanding as Assistants to the Brigadiers Mich. Stadholm Sub-Brigadiers Commanding as Assistants to the Brigadiers The State-Major or Staff-Officers belonging to this Troop of Guards Benj. Barnet Chaplain Philip Aires Clerk Richard Mills Chirurg William Bounty Trumpets William Bull Trumpets Thomas Barnwell Trumpets Mat. Shoar Trumpets Francis Breban Kettle Drum Granadiers Attending this Troop of Guards Richard Potter Lieuts Robert Dixon Lieuts two Serjts Two Corpor. Four Hautbois Two Drums 64 Private Men. The Queen's Troop of Horse-Guards has but two Lieutenants otherwise consisting of equal number with that of the King 's distinguish'd by Carbine Belts of Green Velvet Laced with Gold green Hooses and Holster-Caps Embroidered with the same Cypher and Crown Coated and Cloaked as the King 's Standard and Guidon the same as the King 's The Captain 's Pay of this Troop per diem is 10 s. less than that of the King 's all the other Officer's Pay alike with the King's Troop excepting the Brigadiers who has but 6 s. The Granadiers Pay'd Clad and Armed as the King 's differenc't by green Loops with yellow Tufts upon their Coats A List of all Commission and Staff-Officers in the Dukes Troop of his Majesties Horse-Guards and Troop of Granadiers commanded by the Right Hon ble LOUIS Earle of FEVERSHAM Louis Earle of Feversham Captain Commanding as Colonel Rob t. Werden Lieuts Commanding as Lt. Colonels Theophilus Oglethorp Lieuts Commanding as Lt. Colonels Philip Darcy Cornet Commanding as Majors Edmund Main Guidon Commanding as Majors Ferdinand Stanhop Quartermaster Commanding as Cpt. William Springall Brigadiers Commanding as Lieuts Ambrose Norton Brigadiers Commanding as Lieuts George Hastings Brigadiers Commanding