[9] Previously to the issue of the royal warrant of 1751, which directed the _Number_ to be painted, or embroidered, on each colour of every regiment, it had been the practice to designate regiments by the names of their _Colonels_, adding, in some instances, the colour of their _Facings_, particularly when two regiments were commanded by colonels of the same name:--for example, the _Nineteenth_ was commonly called "_the Green Howards_" between 1738 and 1748, in order to distinguish it from the Third regiment, or Buffs, of which Lieut.-General Thomas Howard was the colonel during that period. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Historical Record of the Nineteenth or The First Yorkshire North Riding Regiment of Foot, by Richard Cannon