16 Pyoceedings of the Royal Iriah Academy. 



are sometimes referred to indifferently as the Guards of the city. The 

 two forces Tvere, ho^^ever, entirely distinct, and had no relation to each 

 other, save in so far as each "^as in its degree responsible for the defence 

 of the city. A militia, 24,000 strong, -^as raised to supplement the 

 regular army ; and in 1660 two foot regiments of city militia had been 

 formed, one for service within the other without the city, the Mayor 

 for the time being actiag as Commander-in-Chief. The Mayor was 

 likewise designated commander of a foot company through the good 

 offices of Sir Theophilus Jones, the Scout-Master-General of the anny, 

 a distinction which was so much appreciated by the city dignitary that 

 the city assembly voted a sum of £50 for a piece of plate to be pre- 

 sented to Lady Jones in recognition of her husband's exertions.' Some 

 friction seems occasionally to have been provoked between the City 

 Guards and the King's regiment. The author of " Ii'eland's Sad 

 Lamentation"* imputes to the latter a slackness little creditable to the 

 gallantly of the corps, allegiag that the militia would not be suffered 

 to guard within the city, the King's Guard being appointed to defend 

 the same, and were obliged to serve outside the walls, " so that upon 

 any attempt, our volunteer inhabitants might certainly have perished 

 before the King's soldiery who receive pay had entered into any 

 dangerous engagement." But this innuendo, with the rest of the pub- 

 lication in which it appeared, was declared by the city Assembly to be 

 " a black and ugly libel." 



Another force not to be confounded with his Majesty's Regiment of 

 Guards was the Lord Lieutenant's Guard of Halbertiers or Eattle 

 Axes, which, during the reign of Charles 11, , from the opening of 

 Ormond's Yiceroyalty^ in 1661 down to 1665, was maintained as part 

 of the Military EstabKshment. This body which was known some- 

 times as the Company of Battle Axes, sometimes as the Guard of 

 Halbertiers, consisted of a caj)tain, lieutenant, two sergeants, and sixty 

 men, dressed in bnffi coats, and was modelled on the Yeomen of the 

 Guard.* The provision made at the Eestoration for such a retinue to 

 attend the Yiceroy was in accordance with the ancient traditions of 

 the Yiceregal office, for as early as the reign of Henry YIII. when 

 the Earl of SuiTey came over as Deputy, one hundred Yeomen of the 

 Guard were sent to Ireland with him to serve as his body-gnard.^ It 



'Dublin Corporation Eecords, iv., p. 221. 



2 " Ireland's Sad Lamentation," 1681. Dublin Conioration Piecord:^ v. Preface. 



^Ormond Manuscripts, i., p. 406. 



* " Sir W. Petty's PoMeal Anatomy." 



^ Preston's " Yeomen of the Guard," p. 100. 



