1777. Worcester, May 10th. Major-Gen. Parker.--"The regiment is very fit for service, and though the men are not particularly upright, makes a handsome appearance, the men are to be supplied with _bearskin caps_ at their next clothing, and the officers are to be provided likewise with bearskin caps, it was said in excuse for the badness of the horses tails, that on account of the colour their tails were frequently plucked, and the hairs stolen. The officers mess together and seem to live in harmony. The trumpeters when the regiment dismounted and formed in battalion, played two of them on clarionettes, two French horns and two on bassoons, and there is besides a music master paid to instruct them, who was present in the field." +Note.+--I expect the hairs were stolen for fishing purposes, silk-worm gut not yet having come into use.--_S. M. Milne._ 1779. Salisbury, October 6th. Gen. Johnston.--Officers' uniform "royal facings, gold embroidered button holes, although the men have white, and caps with black bearskin fronts, handsomely embroidered and ornamented." +Note.+--These caps had just superseded the tall cloth fronted old established Grenadier caps, fronted with blue cloth, displaying the "_White Horse_" and the _Star_ of the Order of the Thistle.--_S. M. Milne._ 1781. Blandford, October 6th. By Gen. Warde. 1782. Durham, September 12th. Lord Adam Gordon.--"Has _three_ standards one good and two bad. I do not recollect, in the thirty five years I have known the regiment, ever to have seen it finer; if the horse furniture was scarlet, instead of blue, it would shew better, in my humble opinion." 1783. Musselburgh, May 27th. Gen. Mackay. 1784. Manchester, June 3rd. Gen. Johnstone.--"New standards given out in 1783. Royal facings with gold embroidered button holes, two epaulettes, as grenadiers have, and black bearskin caps." +Note.+--At this period _all_ other heavy cavalry officers had only one epaulette!--_S. M. Milne._ 1786. Gloucester, May 31st. Gen. Phillipson. 1788. Ashford Common, May 9th. Gen. Douglas. 1790. York, May 10th. Gen. Tonyn.--"two standards and belts in 1783." 1791. Musselburgh, May 25th. Lord Adam Gordon. 1792. Manchester, June 7th. Gen. Hyde. 1801. Dorchester, September 28th. Gen. Garth.--"_Five_ standards in good order." +Note.+--The regiment had been increased to eight, or perhaps ten, troops.--_S. M. Milne._