John Boys (Royalist) Boys himself went to London rather than continue further military resistance while others of the Regiment went on to serve at Wallingford Castle. During August 1648, he made a futile attempt to raise the Siege of Walmer Castle in Deal, one of the Cinque Ports, and customary home of the Lord Warden. Sir Algernon Sydney replaced him as Warden in 1648. In 1659, Boys was held as a prisoner in Dover Castle for "petitioning for a free Parliament", but was released on 23 February 1660. He was then, reputedly, granted the office of Receiver of Customs at Dover from Charles
Lord-lieutenant of London and the Warden of the Cinque Ports were "ex-officio" lieutenants for the Tower Hamlets and Cinque Ports respectively, which were treated as counties in legislation regarding lieutenancy and militia affairs. The official title of the office at this time was His or Her Majesty's "Lieutenant for the county of x", but as almost all office-holders were peers of the realm, they were referred to as "Lord-Lieutenant". "An Act to make the Militia of this Kingdom more useful" (Geo 2, c.9) was passed by the Parliament of Ireland in 1715. This provided for the issuing of commissions to appoint