Two other traitors were in the circle, Kirke and Trelawney, who commanded those two fierce and lawless bands then known as the Tangier regiments.

Both of them had, like the other Protestant officers of the army, long seen with extreme displeasure the partiality which the King had shown to members of his own Church; and Trelawney remembered with bitter resentment the persecution of his brother the Bishop of Bristol.

James addressed the assembly in terms worthy of a better man and of a better cause.

It might be, he said, that some of the officers had conscientious scruples about fighting for him.
If so he was willing to receive back their commissions.

But he adjured them as gentlemen and soldiers not to imitate the shameful example of Cornbury.