"Our will and pleasure is, that this establishment of our Guards, garrisons, and land forces within our Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and the Islands thereunto belonging, and of all other officers and charges therein expressed, do commence on the 1st day of January, 1683-4, in the Thirty-Fifth year of our Reign."
| HIS MAJESTY'S OWN ROYAL REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS. | |||
| Staff-Officers. | Per Diem. | ||
| £. | s. | d. | |
| Colonel, as Colonel, xiis, and iij horses iijs | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| Lieutenant-Colonel, as Lieut.-Colonel, vijs, and ij horses ijs | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| Major, as Major vs, and j horse js | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Chaplaine | 0 | 6 | 8 |
| Chirurgeon ivs, and j horse to carry his chest, ijs | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Adjutant ivs, and for his horse js | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Quarter-Master and Marshal in one person ivs, his horse js | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Gunsmith ivs, and his servant is | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| —— | —— | —— | |
| 2 | 17 | 8 | |
| —— | —— | —— | |
| The Colonel's Troop. | |||
| The Colonel, as Captaine, viiis, and iij horses iijs. | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| Lieutenant ivs, and ij horses ijs | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Cornett iijs, and ij horses ijs | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Quarter-Master, for himself and horse | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Two Serjeants each js vid, and ijs for horses | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Three Corporals each js, and iijs for horses | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Two Drummers each js, and ijs for horses | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Two Hautboys each is, and ijs for horses | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Fifty Soldiers each is vid for man and horse | 3 | 15 | 0 |
| —— | —— | —— | |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| —— | —— | —— | |
| Five Troops more at the same rate | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| —— | —— | —— | |
| The Major to have no Troop, but instead thereof the pay of a Captain xis, in lieu of servants iiis | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| —— | —— | —— | |
| Total | 39 | 11 | 8 |
| —— | —— | —— | |
| Total Per Annum £14,447 18s. 4d. | |||
The four troops at Tangier arrived in England in February, 1684;[16] and, having returned their armour into store, the whole were equipped as dragoons with long muskets and bayonets.[17]
The uniform of the regiment was scarlet lined with blue. The men wore hats bound with silver lace, and ornamented with blue ribands, having a metal headpiece fastened inside the crown; also high boots: their horse furniture was made of scarlet cloth trimmed with blue, with the King's cipher embroidered in yellow characters on the housings and holster-caps. The drummers and hautboys were clothed in splendid liveries, which (according to the War-Office Records) cost upwards of 10l. per suit; and each troop was furnished with a crimson standard or guidon, with the following devices embroidered thereon, namely:—
On the standard of the Colonel's Troop,—the King's cipher and crown.
The Lieutenant-Colonel's Troop,—the rays of the sun, proper, crowned, issuing out of a cloud, proper: a badge used by the Black Prince.
The First Troop,—the top of a beacon crowned, or, with flames of fire, proper: a badge of Henry V.
The Second Troop,—two ostrich feathers crowned, argent: a badge of Henry VI.