Historical Record of the Fourteenth, or, the Buckinghamshire Regiment of Foot / Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1845

by Richard Cannon

While the formation of the regiment was in progress, the rebel army was defeated at Sedgemoor, and the Duke of Monmouth was captured and beheaded. Sir Edward Hales's regiment was, however, one of the corps which the King resolved to retain in his service; the establishment was fixed at ten companies of sixty men each, and in the middle of August the regiment was encamped on Hounslow-heath, where it was reviewed by His Majesty; it afterwards marched to Gravesend and Tilbury, detaching two companies to Jersey, one to Guernsey, and two to Windsor.

1686

On the 1st of January, 1686, the establishment was estimated at the following numbers and rates of pay, viz.:—

Sir Edward Hales's Regiment.
	Pay	per	Day.
Staff.	£	s	d.
The Colonel, as Colonel	0	12	0
Lieut.-Colonel, as Lieut.-Colonel	0	7	0
Major, as Major	0	5	0
Chaplain	0	6	8
Chirurgeon, ivs., one mate iis. vid.	0	6	6
Adjutant	0	4	0
Quarter Master and Marshal	0	4	0
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	2	5	2
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The Colonel's Company.
	Pay	per	Day.
	£	s	d.
The Colonel, as Captain	0	8	0
Lieutenant	0	4	0
Ensign	0	3	0
2 Serjeants, xviiid. each	0	3	0
3 Corporals, xiid. each	0	3	0
1 Drummer	0	1	0
50 Soldiers, at viiid. each	1	13	4
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Total for 1 Company	2	15	4
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Nine Companies more at the same rate	24	18	0
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Total per day	29	18	6
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Per annum £10,922 12s. 6d.

1687

The regiment was again encamped on Hounslow-heath in the summer of 1687, and a grenadier company was added to its establishment. At this period the following officers were holding commissions in the regiment, viz.:—

Captains.	Lieutenants.	Ensigns.
Sir Edw. Hales, (Col.)	Thomas Butler	Dudley Van Burgh
G. Barclay, (Lt.-Col.)	Robert Seaton	Austin Belson
John Gifford, (Major)	Richard Boucher	Thomas Heyward
John Chappell	Gaven Talbot	Philip Overton
Rowland Watson	James Nicholson	Dudley Van Colster
Thomas Weld	Bryce Blair	Clifford Brexton
George Latton	William Carew	George Blathwayt
Richard Brewer	Nicholas Morgan	Edward Hales
Thomas Gifford	Edward Gifford	Edward Pope
George Aylmer	Augustin Gifford	Cæsar Gage
Peter Shackerly	{William Fielding }	Grenadier Company
	{Francis Sanderson }
Chaplain, Nicholas Trapps.—Adjutant, James Nicholson.
Chirurgeon, John Ridley.—Quarter-Master, Edward Syng.

After passing in review before the King and Queen, and other members of the royal family, the regiment struck its tents and marched to Plymouth, where it was stationed during the winter.

1688

From Plymouth the regiment marched to London in June, 1688, and took the duty at the Tower until the middle of August, when it was relieved by the Royal Fusiliers, and marched to Canterbury, and in September to Salisbury.