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PREFACE.

Guards, for the attention shewn to him, the Author’s thanksare due.

To the List of Officers who have received HonoraryMedals, Clasps, and Crosses, it was desirable to have added theNames of the numerous Officers and Soldiers, on whom theMedal for the Battles of the 16th and 18th of June 1815, called“ the Waterloo Medal,” was conferred, of which there is arecord in the Royal Mint; but, as such a Catalogue would haveextended this Work far beyond all practicable limits, and is notlikely to be compatible with any private publication, it mustprobably remain for the Government to cause it to be printed;and a more proper memorial of that Victory could not be sug-gested. It might, also be expedient to print in a similarmanner, the Names of the Non Commissioned Officers, Pri-vates, and Seamen, who have obtained the Medal “ for LongService and Good Conduct.”

Though the Royal Order of the Guelphs of Hanoverwas never a British Order of Knighthood, it was not thoughtright to exclude it from this Work, because its Sovereign andGrand Master was, until four years ago, also the Sovereignof Great Britain; and because it has been bestowed uponso great a number of British Subjects, that it became, in itsappropriation, almost one of the National Orders. That Insti-tution has, therefore, been treated with nearly the same care,and upon the same plan, as the other Orders; and the Ap-pendix contains as complete a List, as it seems now possible toform, of all the Natives of this Country upon whom any of itsClasses have been conferred; a task of considerable difficulty,