The EARL OF ARRAN'S Regiment was armed and equipped, in common with the other regiments of CUIRASSIERS, with long swords, a pair of long pistols, and short carbines; the men wore hats, with broad brims bound with narrow lace, turned up on one side, and ornamented with ribands; large boots; and gauntlet gloves; their defensive armour was steel cuirasses, and head-pieces. This regiment was distinguished by white ribands, white linings to the coat, white waistcoats and breeches, white horse-furniture, the carbine belts covered with white cloth, and ornamented with lace, and the officers wore white silk sashes;--each regiment had a distinguishing colour, which was then called its _livery_, and which is now called _facing_, and the distinguishing colour of the EARL OF ARRAN'S Regiment was WHITE.[8] On their arrival in the south of England, ARRAN'S CUIRASSIERS proceeded to the vicinity of Hounslow, and on the 20th of August passed in review before King James II. and his court on the heath. In order to make a display of his power and to overawe the disaffected in the kingdom, His Majesty ordered an army of eight thousand men to encamp on Hounslow Heath, of which this regiment formed a part; and on the 22nd of August the King reviewed twenty squadrons of horse, one of horse-grenadier guards, one of dragoons, and ten battalions of foot on the heath. After the review ARRAN'S CUIRASSIERS marched into quarters at Winchester and Andover, where they arrived on the 5th of September. [Sidenote: 1686] In these quarters the regiment passed the succeeding winter; and on the 1st of January, 1686, its establishment was fixed by a warrant under the sign manual, from which the following is an extract:--