Historical Record of the Second, or Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in the Year 1661, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1837Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the Second, or Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in the Year 1661, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1837
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
[16] The following rewards were paid to four soldiers of the Queen
Dowager's Regiment of Foot, who were wounded at the battle of
Sedgemoor: viz., James Barnes, John Rosse, James Resin, and John
Pawling; ten marks, amounting to £6 13_s._ 4_d._ to each man.--_War
Office Records._
[17] Story's Wars in Ireland.
[18] Memoirs of the Duke of Berwick.
[19] A quantity of dollars was taken by the QUEEN DOWAGER'S
REGIMENT at Vigo, and a number of them was distributed amongst
the soldiers as a reward for their gallantry. After its return to
England the regiment received 561_l._ 10_s._ prize-money. _Bibl.
Harl._ 7025.
[20] The following was the disposition of the forces under the
command of the _Duke of Ormond_, upon their arrival in England from
Spain, in November, 1702, _viz._--
Lloyd's 3rd Dragoons (detachment) _Portsmouth_.
Foot Guards, 1st, and Coldstream _Gravesend_ and
_Chatham_.
Sir H. Bellasis' 2nd Foot _Portsmouth_.
Churchill's 3rd " _Chatham_.
Seymour's 4th " _Plymouth_.
Columbine's 6th " _Portsmouth_.
Royal Fusileers 7th " _Tilbury_.
Villiers's (Marines) 31st " _Plymouth_.
Fox's (Marines) 32nd " _Portsmouth_.
Lord Shannon's _Chatham_.
[21] The Queen Dowager Catherine was born at Villa Vicosa on the
14th of November, 1638, being daughter of Don Juan XVII., then
Duke of Braganza, (afterwards King of Portugal,) and only sister
of Don Alphonso XVII., and Don Pedro, afterwards King of Portugal.
Her marriage with Charles II., King of England, was solemnised in
Portugal, the Earl of Sandwich being proxy for King Charles on
the 23rd of April, 1662. She embarked for England, and arrived at
Portsmouth on the 14th of May (O.S.), and was married to the King
by Doctor Gilbert Sheldon, the Bishop of London, on the 21st of the
same month.
[22] _David_, first _Earl of Portmore_, K.T., was son and heir
of _Sir Alexander Robertson_, Bart., of Strowan, in the county
of Perth, who assumed the name of _Colyear_, and who was Colonel
of one of the regiments of the Scots' Brigade in the service of
Holland.
_David Colyear_ engaged as a volunteer with the Dutch forces
under the Prince of Orange, in 1674, and came to England with
his Highness at the Revolution in 1688. He served, with great
reputation, in Ireland and in Flanders, and was created Baron
Portmore and Blackness in 1699. In 1703 he was created Baron
Colyear, Viscount Milsington, and Earl of Portmore. He was promoted
to the rank of General in 1710; in the same year he was appointed
Commander of the Forces in Scotland, and was allowed to sell his
colonelcy of the Queen's Regiment. He was appointed Governor of
Gibraltar in 1713, and in 1714 he succeeded the Earl of Stair as
Colonel of the Second, or Royal North British Dragoons. He died at
Gibraltar, on the 2nd of January, 1730.
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