Officers and men muttered that a vote of a foreign assembly was nothing to them.

If they could be absolved from their allegiance to King James the Seventh, it must be by the Estates at Edinburgh, and not by the Convention at Westminster.

Their ill humour increased when they heard that Schomberg had been appointed their colonel.

They ought perhaps to have thought it an honour to be called by the name of the greatest soldier in Europe.

But, brave and skilful as he was, he was not their countryman: and their regiment, during the fifty-six years which had elapsed since it gained its first honourable distinctions in Germany, had never been commanded but by a Hepburn or a Douglas.