Old Skippon was re-appointed in his natural position as Major-General of the Militia for the City of London (July 27) and Commander-In-Chief of all the Forces within, the Weekly Bills (Aug.
2); and Lord Mayor John Ireton was one of the City Colonels.[1] [Footnote 1: I have compiled these lists of names, with some labour, from the Commons Journals of May-Sept.

1659, aided by references to Ludlow's Memoirs and other authorities for some particulars.

There may be one or two omissions in the lists of actually appointed Colonels.

Possibly also the distribution of the regiments between England and Scotland, or between Great Britain and Ireland, may not be absolutely correct.

Perhaps that is hardly possible; for there were shiftings of regiments between England and Ireland within the few months under notice, and shiftings of regiments, or of parts of regiments, between England and Scotland.