+------+--------------------------+-----------------+------------------+ |Troop.| Captains. | Lieutenants. | Cornets. | +------+--------------------------+-----------------+------------------+ | 1st. | Earl of Shrewsbury (Col.)| John Grosvenor | George Kellum. | | 2d. | John Coy, (Lieut.-Col.) | James Bringfield| Hon. W. Brudenel.| | 3d. | Sir Thomas Grosvenor | Henry Grosvenor | James Williamson.| | 4th. | Roger Pope | Thomas Griffiths| Guy Forster. | | 5th. | Francis Spalding | Thomas Doughty | William Rowley. | | 6th. | Charles Orme | Thomas Manning | Ralph Pope. | +------+--------------------------+-----------------+------------------+ | John Skelton Major. | | Samuel Bowles Chaplain. | | James Arden Surgeon. | | George Briscoe Adjutant. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ The EARL OF SHREWSBURY'S CUIRASSIERS were withdrawn from their country quarters in the summer of this year, and were encamped with other forces on Hounslow Heath; where they were practised in military evolutions, under the direction of Lieutenant-Generals the Earls of Craven, Feversham, and Dumbarton; and were several times reviewed by King James II.: in August they struck their tents and marched to Buckingham and Wendover. [Sidenote: 1687] The King, being surrounded by Roman Catholic priests, soon gave indication of his designs against the reformed religion; the Earl of Shrewsbury, who was a stanch Protestant, resigned his commission, and afterwards proceeded to Holland and joined the Prince of Orange, to whom the nation began to look for deliverance from popish tyranny. His Majesty appointed, in January, 1687, Marmaduke Lord Langdale, to the Colonelcy of the regiment, who was succeeded in the following month by the HONOURABLE RICHARD HAMILTON, a Roman Catholic officer, from the Colonelcy of a regiment of dragoons in Ireland. [Sidenote: 1688] From this period until that great national event, the Revolution in 1688, few circumstances occurred, in which Hamilton's regiment was particularly concerned, worthy of being recorded in this memoir. It was encamped on Hounslow Heath in the summer of 1687, and also in that of 1688; and its Colonel being a Papist, the attempt made by the King to introduce officers and soldiers of that religion into the army, would, doubtless, meet with no obstruction in this corps. The majority of the officers and men were, however, firmly attached to the Protestant cause.