From York the head-quarters were removed, in February, 1687, to Chester, where they remained during the following twelve months.
| The Earl of Huntingdon’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 4s. and Mate 2s. 6d. | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Adjutant | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Quarter-Master and Marshal | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Total Staff | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| The Colonel’s Company. | |||
| The Colonel, as Captain | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| Lieutenant | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Ensign | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Two Serjeants, 1s. 6d. each | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Three Corporals, 1s. each | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| One Drummer | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Fifty Soldiers, 8d. each | 1 | 13 | 4 |
| Total for one Company | 2 | 15 | 4 |
| Nine Companies more at the same rate | 24 | 18 | 0 |
| Total per day | 29 | 18 | 6 |
| Per Annum £10,922 12s. 6d. | |||
1687
List of Officers in 1687.
| Captains. | Lieutenants. | Ensigns. |
| —— | —— | —— |
| Earl of Huntingdon, | Thomas Carleton. | William Delavale. |
| (col). | William Rhodesley. | Ralph Cudworth. |
| Ferdinando Hastings | John Hook. | Deacon Garrett. |
| (lieut.-colonel). | John Fry. | Henry Fern. |
| Robert Ingram (major). | John Sheldon. | John Orefeur. |
| Watson Dixie. | Talbot Lacells. | Ambrose Jones. |
| John Tidcomb. | George Comly. | Hussey Hastings. |
| Owen Macarty. | Michael Dunkin. | Joseph Byerley |
| Charles Hatton. | George Keyworth. | Thomas Knivetton. |
| Sir John Jacob. | Henry Walrond. | William Callow. |
| Thomas Condon. | ||
| Charnock Heron. | ||
| Christopher Viscount | } Bernard Ellis | { Company of grenadiers |
| Hatton. | } William Hawley | { added to the regiment |
| { in 1687. | ||
| Gabriel Hastings, Chaplain. Talbot Lacells, Adjutant. | ||
| Claudius Gilbert, Chirurgeon. John Evans, Quarter-Master. | ||
1688
The regiment left Chester in April, 1688, and in June it pitched its tents on Hounslow Heath. In the meantime, the proceedings of the King, to establish Papacy and arbitrary government, had filled the country with alarm, and many of the nobility and gentry had solicited the Prince of Orange to come to England with a Dutch army, to aid them in opposing the measures of the court. The Earl of Huntingdon continued, however, faithful to the interests of the King, and his regiment was ordered into garrison at Plymouth, together with the Earl of Bath’s (now Tenth) regiment. When the Prince of Orange landed, the garrison of Plymouth was divided in its political views: the governor, the Earl of Bath, and Lieut.-Colonel Hastings, of the Thirteenth (cousin of the Earl of Huntingdon), were in the Protestant interest; the Earl of Huntingdon, who was present, and performing the duties of commanding officer, with Lieut.-Colonel Sir Charles Carney, of the Tenth, were devoted to the Roman Catholic interest; but nearly all the officers and soldiers had espoused the Protestant cause. The Earl of Bath, Lieut.-Colonel Hastings, and several other officers, arrested the Earl of Huntingdon, Captain Owen Macarty, Lieutenant Talbot Lacells, and Ensign Ambrose Jones, of the Thirteenth, who were Roman Catholics, and afterwards declared for the Prince of Orange, in which the two regiments in garrison concurred. When the fortress of Plymouth was established in the Protestant interest, the arrested officers were released.
The army refusing to fight in the cause of Papacy and arbitrary government, King James fled to France and the Prince of Orange promoted Lieut.-Colonel Ferdinando Hastings to the colonelcy of the regiment, by commission, dated 1688.