(1819) Regia Insignia: Or, An Account of the King's Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners or Gentlemen at Arms
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AN ACCOUNT OF THE
KING'S
HONOURABLE BAND OF
GENTLEMEN PENSIONERS, OR
BT W.
M. THISELTON,
Gentleman Pensioner in Ordinary
JLontion
to
His Majesty.
:
PRIMTED FOR SHERWOOD, NEELT, AND JOKES, PATERNOSTIR
ROW 5 AND
C.
CHAPPLE, PALL MALL.
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DEDICATION.
To His Royal Highness
THE PRINCE OF WALES, Regent of the United Kingdom, This Volume
With
is
dedicated
the profoundest respect and veneration for
his
of
many
princely virtues
warm attachment
ness's
Person
to
;
and
as a tribute
His Royal High-
;
By his
most
faithful Servant,
W. M. THISELTON.
,i
1
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preface* -
^
1 HIS work
is
intended to develope the
nature and duties of the King's Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, who are the immediate
Body Guards
of the
and the subject is treated at some length, because no writer, except
Sovereign
;
Pegge,* has hitherto gone into its origin and institution, and because it contains remanents of antiquity not unworthy of being redeemed from oblivion. * The author of the
Curialia, published 1784, and which has formed the ground work of the present volume.
PREFACE. In a work of formation is
is
where the
this sort,
in-
of so desultory a nature,
it
almost impossible to pursue any plan
which series
will
the subject
:
it
comprise
with a reference
within a regular therefore treated
is
each
to
reign
and
;
although by so doing some repetitions
may
occur,
it
is
the
means,
only
in
consequence of the scarcity of original documents, to bring under review the
whole of the information
relative to this
immediate branch of the Royal House* I have,
hold.
however, received con-
siderable assistance from the
Order Book,
kept by the Clerk of the Cheque addition to which, I
am bound
to
members '
me by
of the Band.
" '
"'
i
I beg
in
acknow-
ledge the kind assistance afforded several
:
it
,
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