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3. Of the Regiments of Foot-Guards.

There are two Regiments of Foot-Guards, viz. First of French, and secondly, another of Suissers.

The French Regiment consists of thirty Compa∣nies, of a hundred Men in a Company, besides four Serjeants. These Companies are called by their Captains Names. To this Regiment belong these Officers, viz. A Colonel, who is at present, the Duke de la Feuillade, whose yearly pay is 10000 l. Each Company has a Captain, a Lieutenant, a De∣puty-Lieutenant, an Ensign, and four Serjeants; and the Colonelry has three Lieutenants, three De∣puty Lieutenants, two Ensigns, and six Serjeants; there are likewise a Major, four Aid-Majors, four Sub-Aid-Majors. The Captains being thirty in num∣ber, have 3000 l. a year each, the Major as much, the two eldest Aid-Majors, 2500 l. each, the two others but 2000 l. the Sub-Aid-Majors, have each of them 1100 l. pay, and 900 l. gratuity, the Lieu∣tenants 1100 l. the Deputy, or Sub-Lieutenants 900 l. the Ensigns 660 l. The first Lieutenant of the Colonelry, who is called the Lieutenant-Captain, besides his Lieutenants pay, has also the pay of a Captain, and the Captain of the first Company fol∣lowing, besides his Captains pay, has the pay of a Lieutenant, as being Lieutenant-Colonel. More be∣longing to this Regiment are, two chief Muster-Ma∣sters, or Commissaries of the Conduct, and four

other Muster-Masters, two Marshals of the Lodg∣ings, or Quarter-Masters, called the Marshals of the Lodgings of the French Guards, and of the Regi∣ment of Guards, one Provost of the French Bands, and of the Regiment of Guards, one Lieutenant-Pro∣vost, one Register, twelve Archers, or Serjeants belonging to the Provost, and one Executioner. One Auditour-General of the French Bands, two Drum-Majors, one Serjeant appointed, or Pensioner, one Physician, with an Aid, or Assistant, one Apo∣thecary, one Chaplain, six Commissaries, and Comp∣trollers for the War, two other new created Comp∣trollers, two General Treasurers of the Extraordi∣naries for the War, and their Clerks or Deputies, and three other General Treasurers for the ordinary pay of the said Regiment.

Note, That the French Regiment of Guards takes always the right hand of the Regiment of the Suisse Guards, and when two Sentinels are placed, one French, and the other Suisser, the French-man stands on the right hand side, which is to be reckoned with relation to the Kings right hand, which chan∣ges, as he may be going or coming; and on all oc∣sions, when his Majesty, or other great Persons, to whom they owe honours, pass by, the French make a Rank on the right hand, and the Suissers on the left hand of them: It is likewise remarkable, that the Officers of the French Regiment wear gilt Cor∣slets, and the Suissers their only washt over with Silver. This Regiment is quarter'd in the several Suburbs, and Neighbouring Villages about Paris.