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would appear that in their uniform and accoutrements this Guard 

 closely followed its English prototype.' On April 2, 1662, Colonel, 

 afterwards Sir Daniel, Treswell, who was appointed to its command, 

 received from Ormond a warrant for £275 4s. towards buying "64 bufE 

 coats and 64 belts at £4 6s. for each coat and belt for our guard of 

 foot." The forces having been equipped in England came to Ireland 

 in that year, and "for the more convenient perfonnance of their 

 duty"^ were ordered to be quartered as near to Dublin Castle as 

 possible. Treswell, their Colonel, who had come to Ireland in 

 1641 in command of a troop of horse, had "faithfully served his 

 Majesty in honourable employment during the whole war in England 

 and Ireland," in the course of which he had commanded the Lord 

 Lieutenant's regiment of horse, and Ormond, loyal in prosperity 

 to his friends in adversity, not only rewarded his fideKty with the 

 command of his Battle-axes,^ but procured him, in 1665, the honour of 

 a baronetcy, and recommended him in the same year to the burgesses of 

 Downpatrick by whom he was returned to Parliament.* 



In addition to the city guard the Lord Mayor, in emulation of the 

 Lord Lieutenant, seems also to have instituted a small body-guard of 

 halbertiers ; but it is not surprising to learn that this force, sis in 

 number, was " not found so useful as it was expected," and that it was 

 in consequence ordered that as many of them as the Lord Mayor and 

 sheriffs should think fit to be officers at mace should be so appointed, 

 and discharged from their place of bearing halberts. 



That his Majesty's Regiment of Guards was from the first intended 

 to hold the highest place in the regimental roll in Ireland there can be no 

 manner of doubt. When, during the Viceroyalty of Lord Clarendon, at 

 the opening of the reign of James II., several of the officers of the Guards 

 were disi)laced by Tyrconnel in pursuance of his programme to new- 

 model the Irish army on a Roman Catholic basis, Major Billingsley, 

 one of the displaced officers, in protesting against his removal, averred 

 that " to be a Major of the Eoyal Regiment of Guards is better and 

 more h.onorQ'able than to be Lieutenant-Colonel of any other regiment." 



1 Carte Papers. 



- Order for quartering the Battle-axes, Dec. 8, 1662, Ormond MS., Dublin 

 Corporation Records, iv., p. 545. 



3 Hist. MSS. Com., 6tli Eep., Uth Eeport, i. and ii. 



* The following inscription appears upon a tomb in the chancel of the old chxuxh 

 at Finglas, near Dublin: — "Heere under lyeth the body of Sir Daniel Treswell 

 knight and baronett who faithfully served his Majesty iu honourable employment 

 diiving the whole war in England and Ireland and dyed the 24th day of May, 1670." 



K.I. A. PEOC, VOL. XXIV., SEC. c] [2] 



