“I Robert Burne, Lieut.-Colonel of the first battalion of the THIRTY-SIXTH regiment, a Colonel in the army, and Governor of His Majesty’s garrison of Carlisle, do hereby certify and declare, that during the space of _thirty-seven years_ to my own positive knowledge, and how long previous thereto I cannot set forth, the said regiment has used on its regimental seal the word ‘FIRM;’ and that I verily believe, by reason thereof, the said regiment to be entitled to bear the same upon its colours, and that the said word may have lapsed and been forgotten by the frequent change of officers and the mutilated or almost destroyed state in which the colours of the regiment have been on their return from service, and that I am, therefore, extremely anxious that the said word ‘FIRM’ should be inscribed in the painting of the colours of the aforesaid THIRTY-SIXTH regiment, now preparing, by His Majesty’s command, under the inspection of George Nayler, Esquire, York Herald, and Inspector of Regimental Colours. In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of the said regiment, at Battle, Sussex, this fifth day of April one thousand eight hundred and ten. (Signed) ROBT. BURNE, _Lieut.-Col. Commanding 1st Battn. 36th Regt., and Colonel_. “Signed and sealed in the presence of “A. MACKENZIE, _Major 36th Regt._, “HY. VERNON, Capt., _1st Battn. 36th Regt._” “_36th Regiment of Foot_ “Permitted to bear the word ‘FIRM’ having so done for upwards of thirty years, as appears by Lieut.-Colonel Robert Burne’s letter to Sir George Nayler, dated Monte Video, 30th July 1807.” _Memoir of the services of Lieut.-General Robert Burne, formerly Lieut.-Colonel of the_ THIRTY-SIXTH _regiment_.