A grenadier company was added to the regiment when it pitched its tents on Hounslow-heath in the summer of 1687, at which period the following officers were holding commissions, viz.:-- _Captains._ Edward Earl of Lichfield (col). Thomas Salisbury (lieut.-col). George Trapp (major). Dominick Trant. Charles Macartney. Sir A. de Mottetts. Francis Blathwayt. Henry Wharton. John Berners. Thomas Dowcett. Thomas Lord Jermyn. _Lieutenants._ Charles Potts. Charles Houston. Edward Rupert. Robert Doughty. John Cuthbert. William Fisher. Alexander Waugh. Robert Stourson. James Seppens. John Broder. George Raleigh. } Elric Le Mountay.} Grenadier company. _Ensigns._ James Carlisle. Henry Bows. John Beverly. Ferdinand Paris. Valentine Saunders. Isaac Foxley. Daniel Mahony. Richard Waldegrave. William Timperly. Miles Bourk. William Denny, _Chaplain_. John Ross, _Chirurgeon_. John Blakes, _Adjutant_. James Healy, _Quarter-Master_. [Sidenote: 1688] The frequent assembling of a numerous army, admired for its perfect equipment, discipline, and formidable appearance, on Hounslow-heath, was calculated to impress the English nation with a sense of the King's power, and to facilitate the overthrow of the religion and laws of the kingdom, which His Majesty had determined to accomplish. His Majesty resolved to make a trial of the disposition of his soldiers, to gain them over to the support of his measures; thinking, if one regiment could be induced to give a promise of implicit obedience, its example would be followed by the other corps. Accordingly in the summer of 1688, soon after the Earl of Lichfield's regiment had pitched its tents on the heath, it was formed on parade in presence of His Majesty; a short speech was made to the officers and soldiers to induce them to give an unreserved pledge, and the major was directed to call upon all who would not support the repeal of the test and penal laws, to lay down their muskets; when the King was surprised and disappointed at seeing the whole ground their arms, excepting two officers and a very few soldiers, who were Roman Catholics. After some pause His Majesty commanded them to take up their arms, telling them that for the future he would not do them the honour of asking their opinions. The conduct of the King occasioned the nobility and gentry to solicit the Prince of Orange to come to England with a Dutch army, and when the crisis arrived, His Majesty discovered that his soldiers had as much aversion to papacy and an arbitrary government, as his other subjects. Soon after the Prince of Orange had landed, the Earl of Lichfield was removed to the first foot guards, and was succeeded in the colonelcy by Robert Lord Hunsdon, whose commission was dated the 30th of November, 1688.