Upon my Request to Duke Schomberg Concerning ye post of my Regiment; he told mee all the oather Regiments was posted as ye King had ordered him; of which he could make no allteraction tell he knew farther his Magties pleashure in ye pertickuler of Myne; his Grace appoynted Count Soalmes to enquier farther into this mattr & since by ye Dukes appoyntment bid me give you ye State of my Case; which ye Enclosed Certyfies by our Commissary Generall, (Yarner,) & yt when you ofered it before ye King he doubted not but yt you would procure me an order, to be posted as appeeres by ye Inclosed. I beg ye favour in ye affaire, & yt you will give me a line in ansewer directed to me in this place; which will be a great kindnesse dun to
Ye asshured ffaithll servant
Meath.
I doe hereby Certifie that the Rt. honble the Earle of Granard’s Regiment of foot was form’d into a Regiment the first of April 1684, which was afterwards given to his son the Lord Forbese, and afterwards, as I am informed, to Sr John Edgworth, and now to the Rt honble the Earle of Meath; Dated this 27 day of September 1689.
Abr: Yarner
mustr Genll of their
Majts Forces in Ireland.
[19] Surely the highest compliment ever paid to the Intelligence Department of an Army!
[20] The modern names of the old numbered regiments are given in [Appendix 11].
[21] I.e., Prussians.
[22] When Lord Granard raised the regiment in 1684 a corps of Foot Guards, called the Royal Regiment of Ireland, was on the Irish establishment; in the war between James II. and William III. it sided with the Stuart King, and after the surrender of Limerick it sailed for France to join the army of Louis XIV., where it retained its old name in its new service. The regiments were destined to meet at Malplaquet in 1709.