After the Restoration, when King Charles II. had disbanded the army of the commonwealth, a small military force was embodied under the title of "guards and garrisons;" one of the independent companies of infantry incorporated for garrison duty was commanded by that distinguished nobleman, JOHN, EARL OF BATH, who had evinced fidelity and attachment to the royal cause in the rebellion in the reign of King Charles I., and during the usurpations of Cromwell; this company was stationed in the fortress of Plymouth, of which the EARL OF BATH was governor, and it was the nucleus of the regiment which forms the subject of this memoir. [Sidenote: 1685] In June, 1685, when JAMES, DUKE OF MONMOUTH, had landed in the West of England, with a band of armed followers from the Netherlands, and erected the standard of rebellion, commissions were issued, by King James II., for raising eleven companies of foot, of one hundred private soldiers each, which companies were united to the Plymouth independent garrison company, and constituted a regiment, of which the EARL OF BATH was appointed colonel, by commission dated the 20th of June, 1685, and the corps thus formed now bears the title of "THE TENTH REGIMENT OF FOOT." These eleven companies were raised in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire; the town of Derby being the general rendezvous of the corps; and they were raised under the authority of royal warrants, bearing date the 20th of June, by the following gentlemen, who evinced their loyalty by coming forward to the support of the crown at that important crisis:--viz., Colonel, JOHN, EARL OF BATH; Lieut.-Colonel, SIR NICHOLAS STANNINGS; Major, SIR CHARLES CARNEY; Captains, MICHAEL BOURK, CHARLES POWELL, SIR THOMAS WINDHAM, EDWARD SCOTT, BERNARD STRODE, JOHN SYDENHAM, FRANCIS VIVIAN, and SYDNEY GODOLPHIN. After the suppression of this rebellion, many newly raised corps were disbanded, and the EARL OF BATH's regiment was reduced to ten companies of fifty private soldiers each. The regiment was armed with muskets and pikes; the uniform was _blue_, coats lined with _red_, red waistcoats, breeches, and stockings; round hats with broad brims, the brim turned up on one side and ornamented with red ribands; the pikemen wore red worsted sashes. This was the only infantry regiment clothed in blue coats; the other corps wore red coats; red had been generally worn by the English soldiers from the time of Queen Elizabeth; but several of Cromwell's regiments were clothed in blue, and King Charles II. clothed the royal regiment of horse guards in blue, and a regiment of marines, raised in his reign, in yellow. A few years after the revolution in 1688, the TENTH were clothed in red. In August, 1685, the EARL OF BATH'S regiment marched from Derby to Hounslow, and encamped upon the heath, where it was reviewed by the King, and afterwards marched to Plymouth, to relieve the Queen Dowager's regiment, now second foot. [Sidenote: 1686]