Note 8 — HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE FIRST, OR ROYAL REGIMENT OF FOOT.
Reading edition
Milan, a military publisher remarkable for correct dates, states, in an account of the French army printed in 1746, that the Scots Gendarmes were instituted in 1422, and the Scots Garde du Corps in 1440. Père Daniel, the French military historian, adduces proof that they were instituted by Charles VII., but does not give the dates.