"_To our trusty and well-beloved Councillor, George Lord Dartmouth, Colonel of our Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, and Captain of a Company in the said Regiment._" [8] "_Windsor, 7th September, 1685._ "SIR, "The King having ordered three companies of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers to remain in garrison at Sheerness, instead of the three companies that were usually there, and the quarters being too strait, unless some of the officers be lodged in the Navy Dock, His Majesty thinks fit that you signify his pleasure to the officers of the dock that they afford quarters to such of the officers of those companies as need them. Being all I have in command. "I remain, &c. "WILLIAM BLATHWAYTE. "To _Mr. Pepys_." [9] Coxe's Life of Marlborough. [10] Story's History of the Wars in Ireland. [11] 12th September. "This day the ordinary detachments of the Earl of Bath's regiment and of the FUSILIERS being at work at the bastion, part, in enlarging the ditch, found an old hidden treasure, which quickly stopped the soldiers' working, who fell all a scrambling in a heap, one upon another, some bringing off a very good booty, some gold, and some silver, several Jacobuses and Sovereigns being found by the soldiers, and a great many old pieces of silver of Henry II., Charles IX., Henry III., and Henry IVth's coin, which are now hardly to be found in France. The people of the town supposed this money belonged to one Elfort, a gentleman who died many years ago, and who buried his treasure (when the Mareschal de Rantzau took the town) in the Bernardine Nuns' garden (the ground where the money was found having formerly been part of the garden), which Count de Monteroy caused to be demolished, and they think there might have been about 900 pound groat, which makes the value of 450 guineas English. This Elfort left it by will to his children with the marks where to find it; but his children could never discover it."--_D'Auvergne._ [12] Major-General Tyron's despatch. [13] Ibid. [14] Earl Cornwallis's despatch. [15] The following non-commissioned officers were rewarded with commissions at the recommendation of PRINCE EDWARD during the period His Royal Highness commanded the regiment in North America:-- 1795 Serjeant Walter Beavan, Ensign in the Nova Scotia Fencibles. 1796 Serjeant-Major Joseph Parkes, Quarter-Master in the Royal Fusiliers. ---- Serjeant Christopher Taylor, Lieutenant in ditto. ---- Quarter-Master Serjeant John Opinslaw, Ensign in the Invalids. ---- Serjeant James Colledge, Ensign in St. John's Island Provincials. 1797 Serjeant James Turner, Ensign 31st Regiment. ---- Serjeant-Major Frederick Plansker, Ensign in the Fencibles. 1802 Serjeant-Major John Robertson, Ensign in the first, or the royal regiment. [16] The following non-commissioned officers were rewarded with commissions:--