Excerpt from Historical Records of the Buffs, East Kent Regiment, 3rd Foot, Formerly Designated the Holland Regiment and Prince George of Denmark's Regiment, Vol. 1: 1572-1704 The fact that the papers and documents connected with their omce were considered the private property of the various Ministers and Secretaries of State, and were frequently removed by them on vacating office, accounts for the large number of important State Papers to be found among the private collections of manuscripts preserved in the libraries and muniment rooms of so many old family mansions in the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.