in other Proceffions, as we have feen in the course of this Memoir, and therefore may be attributed to the Restoration, a period which introduced many fimilar alterations about the Court. While the Sovereign's Table on these occafions is thus ferved by his BAND of Gentlemen PensiONERS, the Yeomen of the Guard (who daily carry up the King's Dinner in private) are configned to the performance of the like Office at the Table of the Knights-Companions:-and as I cannot leave the Band in the poffeffion of a more honourable Employment, I here, Sir, fet you at liberty, with many Apologies for the length of this Memoir, and remain, with great Respect for You and the Society, APPENDIX. No. I. IT is fcarcely poffible, Sir, at this diftance of time, to preserve a regular fucceffion of the feveral CAPTAINS of the BAND of PENSIONERS from its Inftitution, which comprehends a period of more than Two Hundred and Seventy Years: but fuch whofe Names and Titles have occurred in the course of the preceding Research, are here given from the authorities which have offered themselves. By the following Lift it will appear that the BAND has always been thought a Poft of high and diftinguished honour, not unworthy the acceptance of the first Nobility, and which, in one cafe only, (that of Sir Anthony Browne, who was a Knight of the Garter) has been conferred upon a COMMONER. A LIST OF THE CAPTAIN S Of the BAND of GENTLEMEN PENSIONERS, From its Efablishment, K. HENRY VII. HENRY (Bourchier) EARL of See the preceding Memoir, p. 3. The Dates, for the most part, refer to the times when the CAPTAINS are found in Office, and not to the precife year of their refpective Appointments. Sir ANTHONY BROWNE, Knt. of the Garter. Knt.} } Memoir, p. 25. WILLIAM (Parr) EARL of } Memoir, p. 26. ESSEX *. K. PHILIP and 2. MARY. P. 30. WILLIAM (Parr) MARQUIS] Memoir, p. 43 NORTHAMPTON+. THOMAS (Ratcliffe) EARL of SUSSEX. Memoir, p. 106. K. JAMES I. GEORGE (Cary) LORD HUNS-} Memoir, p. 49. DON. HENRY (Percy) E. of NOR-} Memoir, p. 51. THUMBERLAND ‡. * So created after the death of Henry Bourchier, the late Earl, whofe fole daughter he had married. [Vid. Memoir, p. 26, in a Note.] His Lordship was created Marquis of Northampton, in the first year of King Edward VI. [Vid. Note to Page 31 of the Memoir.] + Attainted, 1553. Deprived, 1606. THO EARL of SUFFOLK. MS. in Coll. Arm. MS. in the Library of the Earl of Shelburne. when} Memoir, Memoir, p. 102. WILLIAM (Cecil) EARL of Memoir, pp. 66, 67. SALISBURY. } FRANCIS (Leigh) LORD DUNS-} Dugdale's Baronage. MORE [1643.+.] K. CHARLES II. HENRY (Wentworth) EARL} Memoir, p. 76. of CLEVELAND. BEL-} Collins's Peerage. JOHN (Belafis) LORD BELLASIS of Worlaby. NT} Dugdale's Baronage. THOMAS (Belafis) VISCOUNT FAUCONBERG [1672 ‡.] WENTWORTH (Dillon) EARL of ROSCOMMON [1674.] [ARL} } Peerage of Ireland. ROBERT (Leake) EARL of Collins's Peerage. SCARSDALE [1684.] K. JAMES II. THEOPHILUS (Hallings) EARL]. Collins's Peerage. of HUNTINGDON [1687.] • He became Earl of Suffolk, 1626. + Created Earl of Chichester, 1644 On the refignation of his Uncle Lord Belafis of Worlaby. [Dugdale and Col. lins.] K. WIL |