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England, in inns, wine-taverns, ale-houses, or victualKng houses.^ The 

 officers were likewise quartered on the city. On June 14th Ormond 

 wrote to the Mayor, and sheriffs requiring them "forthwith to 

 appoint convenient quarters as near the Castle of Duhlin as may 

 he for oui- son Ei chard Earl of Arran, Colonel of His Majesty's 

 Eegiment of Guards and his servants"^; and shortly afterwards 

 provision was made hy the city, pursuant to his Excellency's warrant 

 for the quartering of the commissioned officers of tlie King's 

 Regiment in the city and suburbs. Thenceforward and down to the 

 Revolution, Dublin appears to have continuously remained the head- 

 quarters of the Guards ; and although the arrangements for their 

 lodgiag appear to have involved some burthen on the city, the best 

 relations seem, in general, to have been maintained between citizens and 

 soldiery. The troops seem to have been quartered partly in the Castle, 

 partly through the city, especially at the city gate-houses,^ which, at 

 that time, were still utilised for residential purposes, as appears from 

 the complaint of one John Eastwood who had contracted to pay £4 per 

 annum to the city for St. Nicholas' Gate, but represented that " the 

 said gate was taken up fi-om him by the soldiers, by special orders from 

 the Lord Lieutenant, to his very great damage." The provision of fire 

 and candlelight for the Guards were also constituted a charge upon the 

 city, and assessments were annually made for this purpose on a warrant 

 from the Viceroy, this being, in the language of a resolution of 1665, 

 " required to be done by act of state and a business of public concern- 

 ment to this city."* The amount of the assessment for this pui'pose 

 was usually from £150 to £200 a year. The tax appears to have, in 

 general, been readily contributed, though in June, 1667, one John 

 Uuelch, a fi-eeman of the city and member of the Corporation, refused 

 " in violation of his oath as freeman to pay his portion of the charge 

 amounting to hall-a-crown " as unlawful and unwarrantable. ^ 



In addition to the occasional restiveness excited by the tax for their 

 maintenance, the Guards appear to have provoked some unpopularity by 

 their demeanour towards the citizens. In August, 1667, a petition was 

 presented to the Lord Lieutenant by the City Council "for a redress 

 against the several oppressions of the officers and soldiers on the 

 inhabitants of the city under the pretence of quartering." This, 

 however, was resented by the Colonel, Lord Arran, and the officers of 



1 Carte Papers, 37, 228. 



2 Corporation Records, iv., p. 273. ^ Ibid., p. 299. 

 * Dublin Corporation Eecords, iv., p. 347. ^ Ibid., p. 435. 



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