leetwood, Lambert, Robert Overton, Matthew Alured, John Hewson (with
John Duckinfield for his Lieutenant-Colonel), John Biscoe, William
Sydenham, Edward Salmon, Richard Mosse, Richard Ashfield, Sir Arthur
Hasilrig, Thomas Kelsay, John Clerk, Robert Gibbon, Robert
Barrow.--One finds, besides, certain Colonels appointed to garrison
commands: e.g. Colonel Thomas Fitch to be Governor of the Tower,
Colonel Nathaniel Whetham to be Governor of Portsmouth, Colonel Mark
Grimes to be Governor of Cardiff Overton was Governor of Hall as well
as Colonel of a Foot-Regiment; and Alured had charge of the
Life-Guard of the House and the Council at Westminster,--All these
appointments were actually made; other colonelcies probably stood
over for consideration.--In the _Journals_ Lambert is styled
"Major-General Lambert," but that was only by courtesy. He had no
commission with that title; and Ludlow makes a point of marking this
by always calling him "Colonel Lambert" only. His distinction was in
holding two colonelcies together, one of Foot and one of Horse.
II. FOR SERVICE IN SCOTLAND:--Here, probably because of Monk's
passive resistance, the reorganization was less completely carried
out; but the intention seems to have been that Monk, though in
courtesy he might still be called "General Monk," should have only,
by actual commission, the same distinction of double colonelcy that
Lambert had in England. He had a Regiment of Foot and also one of
Horse; and among the other Colonels were, or were to be, Thomas
Talbot (at Edinburgh), Timothy Wilkes (at Leith), Ralph Cobbet (at
Glasgow), Roger Sawrey (at Ayr), Charles Fairfax (at Aberdeen),
Thomas Read (at Stirling, with John Clobery for his
Lieutenant-Colonel), Henry Smith (at Inverness), John Pierson (at
Perth), the veteran Thomas Morgan of Flanders celebrity (a Dragoon
Regiment), and Philip Twistleton (a Horse Regiment). One or two of
these were substitutions for officers whom Monk preferred.
II. IRELAND.
_Commander-in-Chief_: LIEUTENANT-GENERAL EDMUND LUDLOW.
Ludlow, after having been commissioned to an English Colonelcy of
Foot, was removed to this higher post, in succession to Henry
Cromwell, July 4, not with the title of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
but with the military title of "Lieutenant-General of Horse." For the
Civil Government of Ireland there were associated with him, under the
title of Commissioners, Colonel John Jones, William Steele, Robert
Goodwyn, Colonel Matthe
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