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company as Captain into your care and charge, and duly to exercise as ■well the 

 officers as soldiers thereof in arms, and to use your best endeavours to teep them 

 in good, order and discipline : and ■we do hereby command them to obey you as 

 their Colonel and Captain respectively ; and you are to observe and f oUo^w such 

 orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from us, or any other 

 your superior officers, according to the rules and discipline of ■war, in pursuance of 

 the trust ■we hereby repose in you. 



Given at our Court at St. James's, the first day of October, 1794, in the thirty- 

 fourth year of our reign, 



By His Majesty's command, 



poetlaxd. 



Anthony Count "Walsh de Serrant, 

 Colonel of a Eegiment of Foot. 



[The authori^ties on -n-hicli tMs Paper is based ai'e for the most part 

 indicated in the foot-notes, or in the body of the text. The writer 

 has also derived assistance from articles on the s^ubject in the 

 jS^ineteenth Centurt/, for June, 1900, and in the Mousehold Brigade 

 Magazine, for the same year, contributed respectively by the late 

 Fitzalan ^Manners, and by Lt.-Col. E. Holden, Secretary of the 

 United Service Institute. In addition the writer desires to express 

 his obligations to Major-General Sir ]y[artin Dillon, K.C.B., and to 

 Mr. Y. Hussey "Walsh, for much valuable infonnation ; to Mr. F. 

 Elrington Ball, M.E..I.A., for transcripts of documents in the Carte 

 Papers at the Bodleian Library; to Dr. "W. J. O'Donnavan, M.R.I. A., 

 for references to general useful authorities ; and to the officials of the 

 Irish Piecord Office who have assisted his seai'ches with their usual 

 courtesy and helpfulness. — C.L.P.] 



' " Une Famille Royaliste," Appendix, p. 95. 



