12 Procpedings of the Royal Irish Academi/. 



titan £24,518 Ss. Sd. per aimum being allocated to its maintenaiice. 

 Its roll included, in addition to the Colonel, a Lieutenant-Colonel, a 

 Major and nine Captains of companies, twelre Lieutenants, twelve 

 Ensigns, forty sergeants, tliirty-six corporals, a drum-major with 

 twenty-four di'uramers, a piper to the King's Company, and twelve 

 hundred soldiers. Li addition to the fighting strength of the regi- 

 ment, there were attached a Chaplain, an Adjutant Quarter-ilaster, 

 a Surgeon and Surgeon's mate.^ 



It does not appear from any document from what district the 

 rani: and file of the regiment was recruited ; hut it is evident that at 

 the date of the commission to Ormond considerable progress had been 

 already made in finding the men and arranging for their equipment, 

 and the original list of officers included some who had served in the 

 regiment commanded by Ormond in Flanders. On April 14th, 1662, 

 the Yice-Treasurer received orders to pay to Lieutenant-Colonel Sii' 

 "William Flower, the sum of £1897 8s. %d., "towards the raising, 

 sending to the sea-side, and transporting into Ireland of the officers 

 and soldiers of the said regiment."^ Two days later, a similar 

 sum, " being one month's pay of the Regiment of Guards for 

 Ireland," -^vas ordered to be paid to the same officer. On April 

 21st, orders were given for £663 14s. to be paid to John Wall, 

 "for 600 scarlet coats, bought of him for His Majesty's Eegiment 

 of Guards for Ireland, and £755 12s to be paid to Heniy Prescott 

 for 661 red coats, and embroidering twenty-four drummer's coats, 

 with sacks to pack them up in."^ This uniform is identical with 

 that prescribed for Colonel Eussell's Regiment of Guards in England. 

 A little later Alderman Daniel Bellingham, afterwards the first 

 Lord Mayor of Dublin, received an order to furnish all the non-com- 

 missioned officers and men with a ''red cassock," a teiTo. not as yet 

 appropriated by the clergy, together with " cloth breeches, two 

 shirts, one pair of stockings, and one pair of shoes."* 



]^o time was lost in transferring the newly raised regiment to its 

 destination. As early as May, the news-letters of the day chronicled 

 the embarkation of the Guards for Ireland.^ "On the 9th instant," 

 according to the Chester correspondent of Mercurius Publicus, " Sir 



1 Ormonde, MS., vol. i. 



2 Carte Papers, 165, 3. 



^ See Sir F. Hamilton's " History of the Grenadier Guards." 

 * Orrery's State Letters, p. 58. 



^Mercurius Publicus, May 9 and 28, 1662. See also "M'Kinnon's "History 

 of the Coldstream Guards," i. 109, note. 



