“As I have mentioned to you in mine of 30th August of the absolute necessity the regiment lies under that it is high time that a Proper Person should be thought of to discharge the duty of Adjutant for the reasons therein mentioned. I assure you I know of no person so proper in the regiment to discharge that duty as Sergeant Millner, who is very willing to do it _gratis_, provided it is for your advantage or any other commands you should be pleased to lay upon him, as you may judge by his journal he wrote of the late war in Flanders to which I find you were pleased to be one of the generous subscribers. “I should not take the liberty of recommending this poor man to you if I had not sufficient reasons to be thoroughly sensible he is capable of discharging any duty that his superiors are willing to employ him on, and has on all occasions in a very particular manner merited the esteem of all the officers he has had the honour of serving under, as you may see by the generous subscription in his favour, a copy of which I send you enclosed, by which you will plainly see good generous Kane has not forgotten the (illegible? regiment) always desiring to be a subscriber on the like occasion.” Inclosure-- “We whose names are hereunder written officers of the Royal regiment of Ireland in consideration of the long and faithful service of Sergeant John Millner do hereby desire and empower the agent or paymaster of the said regiment for the time being to stop or cause to be stopped out of respective subsistence or arrears the sum set against our names whenever the colonel of the regiment shall be pleased to recommend the said Millner to his Majesty for a commission in the said regiment.” Anthony Pujola, £10 0 0 Stephen Gilman, 10 0 0 Charles Hutchinson, 5 0 0 W^m. Sharman, 5 0 0 Anthony (illegible), 5 0 0 Thomas Borrett, 5 0 0 Thomas Dunbar, 5 0 0 Rob Pearson, 5 0 0 James La Tour, 2 10 0 Henry Barrett, 2 10 0 John Coningham, 2 10 0 ---- Cotter, 2 10 0 Jonathan Elder, 2 10 0 George Martin, 5 0 0 E. du Conseille, 2 10 0 --------- £70 0 0 Governor Kane, 10 0 0 --------- In January, 1737, Gillman reports the loss of a subaltern, who can hardly be said to have been cut off in the flower of his youth. “ ... This is to acquaint you with the death of Lieut. John Dalbos of Colonel Pujola’s Company who died last night of a tedious and lingering disorder attended with the gout, but in my opinion rather by old age being 75 years....” The gem of the collection, however, is contained in a letter of introduction given by Major-General Armstrong to Major Gillman, in favour of a young officer just posted to the regiment.