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The above lists of infantry contain Frenchmen only. The whole strength of the regiments may be stated thus:—

The king having granted £300 to be distributed among French officers by the Marquis de Ruvigny, major-general commanding the forces in Ireland, the following two lists were drawn up by the major-general in his own handwriting, signed,

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1. Officers from Ireland about to return. — Captains de St. Maison, De Binestan. Lieutenants. — De St. Sauveur, Cotereau. Sub-Lieutenants. — Binyon, Payre, Bausobre, Lalegre.

2. Officers from France. — Captains De Crusel, De la Barthe, Du Joysel, De Madiane, Du Chesnoy, Moynier, D’Albenas, Darreau, Tremoulet, Cosautier. Lieutenants Massé, Daldebert, Jourdan, Bourdenane, Du Faget, Du Pont de Lard.

On 24th Nov. 1699 the Earl of Albemarle intimated to the Earl of Galway that Mr. de St. Maurie Monbrison was to succeed to the pension originally granted to his deceased brother.

Armand de Bourbon, Marquis de Miremont, raised a regiment of horse in the English army under King James II., when his uncle, the Earl of Fevcrsham, was commander-in-chief. This was at the end of that reign. And this regiment, as the Marques de Miremont’s Horse, was recognised by the Prince of Orange, and had quarters assigned to it. I cannot find the date of his receiving the command of the French Refugee Dragoons. As we proceed, the reader will perceive an apparent indication that the French corps was originally under the command of a Colonel Karthazar, and that he was succeeded by the Marquis de Miremont Miremont’s Horse was probably soon disbanded, as King James seems to have left behind him an unnecessarily large squadron of heavy cavalry. Miremont’s Dragoons was in existence on 31st. Dec. 1695, as appears from the registration of the marriage of Captain Addée. And at all events it was a French regiment at the date of the peace of Ryswick, and was disbanded with the others. 