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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

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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