[15] One of the regiments of dragoons raised in 1678 was styled _the Royal Regiment of Dragoons_; but it was disbanded after the peace of Nimeguen. [16] 'CHARLES R. 'OUR WILL AND PLEASURE IS, that as soon as the troop of OUR ROYAL REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS, whereof Charles Nedby, Esq., is Captain, shall arrive from our garrison at Tangier, you cause the same forthwith to march to the town of Ware, in Our county of Hertford, where they are to remain until further orders. And the officers of the said troop are to take care that the soldiers duly pay their intended quarters. 'Given at Our Court at Whitehall this 1st day of February, 1683-4. 'By His Majesty's command, 'WILLIAM BLATHWAYTE.' A similar order was given for Captain Thomas Langston's troop to quarter at Hoddesdon, Captain John Coy's at Hampstead, and Captain Alexander Mackenzie's (the troop raised in 1661) at Watford and Bushey.--_War-Office Records._ [17] The following arms and appointments were issued from the Tower of London for the equipment of the regiment, viz.-- 318 Muskets and bayonets 12 Halberds 12 Partizans 12 Drums 318 Cartouch boxes and belts 318 Waist belts and bayonet frogs 358 Saddles and bridles 358 Sets of holster caps and housings.--_Ibid._ [18] Nathan Brook's Complete List, Military: London, 1684. [19] Hugh Wyndham was afterwards colonel of the seventh horse, now sixth dragoon guards. [20] Francis Langston was afterwards colonel of the fifth horse, now fourth dragoon guards. [21] War-Office Records. [22] Ibid. [23] War Office Records. [24] Mémoires de Berwick. [25] Lingard's History of England. [26] London Gazette; War Office Records; Life of King James II., &c. [27] War Office Route Book. [28] London Gazette. [29] "There were two priests in the garrison of _Charlemont_, and there happened a pleasant adventure between one of them and a dragoon of Colonel Hayford's regiment (the Royal Dragoons) as they were guarding the Irish towards Armagh. They fell into a discourse about religion; the point in hand was _Transubstantiation_: the dragoon, being a pleasant, witty fellow, drolled upon the priest, and put him so to it, that he had little to say, upon which he grew so angry that he fell a-beating the dragoon, who, not being used to put up with blows, thrashed his fatherhood very severely. Upon which, complaint being made to Teague, as he was at dinner with our officers at Armagh, all that he said was, he was very glad of it, adding, 'What te de'il had he to do to dispute religion with a dragoon?'"--_Story's History of the Wars in Ireland_, p. 63. [30] Story's History. [31] Story. [32] Colonel Clifford, of the Royal Dragoons, adhered to King James at the Revolution, and having proceeded to Ireland he was appointed a Brigadier-General. [33] Story.--London Gazettes, &c. &c. [34] D'Auvergne's History of the Campaigns in Flanders. [35] Official Records, London Gazettes, &c.