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Ml" Gilbei't Byron, captain lieutenant to the Lord Carnarvon. 

 Mr John Carey, cornet. 

 Two corporalls. 



Sir Foulke Huncks, captain over a troupe of carbines. 

 Mr John Mason, captain Heutenant. 

 Mr Robert Sands, coronet. 



Sir Ralph Hopton,"^^ captain over a comj)any of carbines. 

 Mr Jo. Hall, captain lieutenant. 

 Ml' Neale Mackworth, coronet. 



. Squire Heale,'^^ captain over a company of carbines. 



Mr Bamfield, captain lieutenant. 



Mr Clement Martin, coronet. 



The Lord Philip Harbert, captain over a ti'oupe of carbines. 

 Captain Tho. Carn, captain lieutenant. 

 Mr Carleton, coronet. 



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The band of gentleman pensioners.-*^"' 

 William Earle of Salisbury, captaine. 

 Geoi'ge Lord Goring, lieutenant, absent. 

 Sir Edw. Capell, standardbearer, vice Lord Goring. 

 Mr Tho. Wynee, clarke of the cheque. 

 Sir Ellis Hicks^"" bore the standard. 



[May] 20. The 20th, beeing Monday, all the privy chamber- 

 men and other of his majestic 's nearest sei'vants (the pensioners 

 excepted, who were ever in a band by them-selves) mustered 

 and exercised in a feild neare the towne, and the king came 

 on horsebacke to behold us. When the horses were cast into 

 battalia, there were six cornetts flying in the head of the troupes. 

 Two squadrons of gentlemen cuirassiers in the middle, flanckd 



23 Sir Ralph Hopton, afterwards Lord Hopton, born circa 1598, died 

 in 1652. 



^ Sir John Hele was knighted at Berwick, 23rd June 1639. 



^ Here is crossed through " Mr Beavall Greenvile, captain over a 

 troupe of carbines." 



26 Instituted in 1509 and now styled the Corps of Gentlemen-at-arms. 



^ Sir Ellis Hicks was knighted 23rd September 1635. 



