Historical Record of the Seventeenth, or the Leicestershire Regiment of Foot / Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1688, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1848

by Richard Cannon

London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street,
For Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

FOOTNOTES:

[6] The regiments raised in 1688, by King James II., were commanded by the following officers:—Horse.—The Earl of Salisbury, Marquis de Miremont, Viscount Brandon, Henry Slingsby, and George Holman. Foot.—John Hales, Roger McEligot, Archibald Douglas, Solomon Richards, the Duke of Newcastle, Colonel Gage, and Colonel Skelton.

[7] D'Auvergne's History.

[8] This letter was published in the State of Europe for June 1708; the writer was not aware of Brigadier-General Wightman's appointment to the SEVENTEENTH regiment.

[9] Beatson's Naval and Military Memoirs.

[10] Boyer's Annals of Queen Anne.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.