Note 8 — HISTORICAL RECORD
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"Windsor, 7th September, 1685.
"Sir,
"The King having ordered three companies of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers to remain in garrison at Sheerness, instead of the three companies that were usually there, and the quarters being too strait, unless some of the officers be lodged in the Navy Dock, His Majesty thinks fit that you signify his pleasure to the officers of the dock that they afford quarters to such of the officers of those companies as need them. Being all I have in command.
"I remain, &c.
"William Blathwayte.
"To Mr. Pepys."