Note 11 — HISTORICAL RECORD

12th September. "This day the ordinary detachments of the Earl of Bath's regiment and of the Fusiliers being at work at the bastion, part, in enlarging the ditch, found an old hidden treasure, which quickly stopped the soldiers' working, who fell all a scrambling in a heap, one upon another, some bringing off a very good booty, some gold, and some silver, several Jacobuses and Sovereigns being found by the soldiers, and a great many old pieces of silver of Henry II., Charles IX., Henry III., and Henry IVth's coin, which are now hardly to be found in France. The people of the town supposed this money belonged to one Elfort, a gentleman who died many years ago, and who buried his treasure (when the Mareschal de Rantzau took the town) in the Bernardine Nuns' garden (the ground where the money was found having formerly been part of the garden), which Count de Monteroy caused to be demolished, and they think there might have been about 900 pound groat, which makes the value of 450 guineas English. This Elfort left it by will to his children with the marks where to find it; but his children could never discover it."—D'Auvergne.