So you see here we are, and it is our intention to beat up all our friends and relations, and ask them each to raise a company or half a company of recruits, of which, of course, they would have the command.
"We landed at Berwick, and wrote to several of our friends that we were coming.

Scott of Jedburgh has engaged to raise a company.

Balfour of Lauderdale, who is a cousin of mine, has promised to bring another; they were both at St.Andrew's with us, as you may remember, Graheme.

Young Hamilton, who had been an ensign in my regiment, left us on the way.

He will raise a company in Douglasdale.