Even the popes themselves wanted a lifeguard of Swiss; the first, 1503, was Pope Julius II, who was often engaged in war.

If the young friend who owns my heart my centre thus can break, The Pasha will command him soon the lifeguard's rank to take.

There are a thousand horsemen under Percy and O'Neal, armed with swords, pole-axes, and petronels; this includes Rupert's own lifeguard of chosen men.

Rupert first clears the hedge,he is always first,then comes the captain of his lifeguard, then the whole troop "jumble after them," in a spectator's piquant phrase.

Some of them who never came into the fight, were so frighted, that they never looked behind them till they came to Pershore, and, as we were afterwards informed, the lifeguards of the general who had quartered in the town, left it in disorder enough, expecting us at the heels of their men.

LIFEGUARDS, the British royal household troops, consisting of cavalry and infantry regiments.