Two years later Gillman again entreats that recruiting should be properly conducted.
“I beg leave to assure you that you have a corps of captains that has the credit of the Regiment entirely at heart and will begrudge no expense in supporting it on all occasions therefore I am thoroughly convinced you will give such necessary orders to the person or persons that are to recruit the regt, that they receive no bad or old men upon any account whatever. The standard of the regt, is 5′ 7″ without shoes.... I entreat your further assistance by getting a few fine fellows at home proper for the Grenadier Company let the expense be ever so great which I’ll pay with pleasure, and if two or three beautiful men fit for sergeants to said Company could be sent over I’ll pay them sergeants’ pay until they are provided for because two of the sergeants and the three Corporals are the bane of the Company and not in the least fit to appear under arms but with disgrace.”
The next letter (November 20, 1736) recommends that a commission should be granted to Sergeant John Millner, the author of the history of the war in the Low Countries to which frequent reference has been made in [Chapter II].
“I beg leave to recommend to your favour on this occasion Sergt. Millner and if it meets with your condescension I am ready to pay down the money for him. I am thoroughly convinced that when so good a man has the honour of being known to you you’ll not in the least begrudge any favours that you may be pleased to lay upon him which he will always own in the most grateful manner imaginable.
“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 |
| Wm. 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.