'THESE ARE TO AUTHORIZE YOU to raise volunteers with able horses for one troop of Horse, which you are commissioned to raise and command for Our Service, consisting of threescore soldiers, three corporals, and two trumpeters, besides Commissioned Officers. And as you shall raise the said Volunteers and Non-commissioned Officers of Our said troop, you are to give notice thereof to our Commissary General when and where you shall have twenty soldiers ready, with their horses, together, besides officers; that he, or his deputy, may muster them accordingly, and from such muster those soldiers, with all the officers of the said troop, are to commence and be in our pay; and from thenceforth as you shall, from time to time, entertain any more soldiers with their horses fit for Our Service, and shall produce them to muster, they shall be respectively mustered thereupon, until you shall have threescore soldiers, besides officers; and when that number shall be fully, or nearly, completed, they are to be sent under the command of a Commissioned Officer to Worcester and Droytwich, (appointed for the quarters of Our said troop,) where they are also to be mustered, and soe remain until further orders. You are likewise to send a trusty person to Our Tower of London to receive arms for Our said troop. 'WHEREIN, all Magistrates, Justices of the Peace, and Constables, whom it may concern, are required to be assisting; and the Officers are to be careful that the soldiers behave themselves civilly, and duly pay their landlords. 'GIVEN at Our Court at Whitehall, this 23rd day of June, 1685, in the first year of Our Reign. 'BY HIS MAJESTY'S COMMAND, 'WILLIAM BLATHWAYTE.' 'To _Our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin and Councillor, Thomas Earl of Plymouth, &c._' A similar warrant was issued for raising each of the other five troops.--_War-Office Records._ [9] The cuirass was not peculiar to this regiment, there being, in the autumn of 1685, ten regiments of Cuirassiers in the English army, besides the Life Guards, who were also Cuirassiers. [10] War-Office Records. [11] The Marquis de Miremont was a French nobleman, and cousin to Louis Earl of Feversham. [12] The three regiments were Colonel John Butler's Dragoons, Colonel Anthony Hamilton's Foot Guards, and Colonel Roger McElligot's Regiment of Foot--1500 men.--_War-Office Records._ [13] Memoirs of General Mackay. [14] Mackay's Memoirs, p. 56. [15] London Gazette. [16] War-Office Records. [17] D'Auvergne's History of the Campaigns in Flanders, &c. [18] No record appears to have been preserved of the number killed and wounded of the FOURTH HORSE; but according to the London Gazette, No. 2895, the English cavalry lost 59 officers and 472 men. [19] D'Auvergne's History of the Campaigns in Flanders; Boyer's Life of King William III.; the London Gazette, &c. [20] The present Second and Sixth Dragoon Guards:--Galway's Horse was disbanded after the Peace of Ryswick in 1697.