[7] Captain Charles Nedby commanded a troop in the Duke of Monmouth's regiment of horse, which was raised in 1678, in the expectation of a war with France, and was disbanded in the following year. In 1680 he raised an independent troop of horse for service at Tangier in Africa, and proceeding thither immediately, distinguished himself in an action with the Moors, on 27th of September, 1680. In 1683 the four troops of Tangier horse were constituted, together with two troops raised in England, the Royal Regiment of Dragoons. Captain Nedby continued in the Royal Dragoons until June, 1685, when he raised a troop of horse for the Queen's Regiment, now 1st Dragoon Guards; and in July of the same year he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the EARL OF ARRAN'S Regiment. [8] According to the estimates of this period, the following sums were usually paid for the clothing of the horse:-- £ _s._ _d._ Scarlet coats 3 10 0 Corporal's ditto 4 10 0 Red cloaks, lined 2 5 0 Hats edged with lace 0 15 0 Sword and belts 1 0 0 Carbine belts 0 7 0 Cloth waistcoats 0 1 5 Buff gloves 0 7 6 Horse furniture,--viz.: housing } and holster-caps, embroidered } 1 5 0 Jacked boots 1 6 0 Cartouch boxes 0 2 6 Each Captain clothed his own trumpeter, and the Colonel the kettle-drummer. [9] The Fifth Horse were embodied in July, 1685, under the command of the Earl of Thanet, who was succeeded, on the 24th of October of the same year, by Major-General Werden. This officer commanded the regiment until December, 1688, when Lord Deloraine was appointed to the command; his Lordship was succeeded in the following year by Colonel Francis Russell, who commanded it until it was disbanded. [10] Lord Mountjoy was a warm-hearted Irish nobleman, devoted to the Protestant interest. At the Revolution he was desirous of having Ireland delivered into the hands of King William; the Lord-Lieutenant, Earl Tyrconnel, appeared to acquiesce, and sent Lord Mountjoy to France to obtain the sanction of King James, who confined him in the Bastile, where he remained until 1692, when he was exchanged for General Richard Hamilton. He arrived from France a few days before the battle of Steenkirk, and though holding no military rank, he served with this regiment as a volunteer, and was killed as above stated.