1846.
FOOTNOTES:
[6] "Our Royal Regiment of Fusiliers to have snap-hance musquets, strapt, with bright barrels of three feet eight inches long, with good swords, cartouch-boxes, and bionetts."—King James IInd's orders for arming the Royal Fusiliers.
[7] "JAMES R.
"These are to authorise you, by beat of drum or otherwise, to raise volunteers to serve for soldiers in your own company in Our Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, which we have appointed to be raised, and whereof you are colonel; which company is to consist of one hundred private soldiers, three serjeants, three corporals, and two drummers. And as the said soldiers shall be respectively raised in the said company, they are to be produced to muster, to the intent that they may be received into our pay and entertainment; and when that number shall be fully or nearly completed, they are to march to the general rendezvous of their regiment, where they are also to be mustered. And you are to appoint such person or persons as you shall think fit to receive arms for the said soldiers, and halberts for the said serjeants, out of the stores of Our Ordnance. And we do hereby require all magistrates, justices of the peace, constables and others, Our officers, whom it may concern, at the places where you shall raise, march, or rendezvous our said company, to be assisting therein as there shall be occasion.
"Given at our Court at Whitehall the 20th day of June, 1685.
"By His Majesty's Command."
"William Blathwayte.
"To our trusty and well-beloved Councillor, George Lord Dartmouth, Colonel of our Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, and Captain of a Company in the said Regiment."
[8] "Windsor, 7th September, 1685.