The rear of the regiment was formed by four hundred men in scarlet coats, with white cross-belts and well-burnished muskets.
These were deserters from the Devonshire Militia, who had marched with Albemarle from Exeter, and who had come over to Monmouth on the field at Axminster.

These kept together in a body, but there were many other militiamen, both in red and in yellow coats, amongst the various bodies which I have set forth.

This regiment may have numbered seven hundred men.
The sixth and last column of foot was headed by a body of peasants bearing 'Minehead' upon their banner, and the ensign of the three wool-bales and the sailing ship, which is the sign of that ancient borough.

They had come for the most part from the wild country which lies to the north of Dunster Castle and skirts the shores of the Bristol Channel.

Behind them were the poachers and huntsmen of Porlock Quay, who had left the red deer of Exmoor to graze in peace whilst they followed a nobler quarry.