Dunmore had thrown up his command, and his dragoons were now in
the charge of Sir Thomas Livingstone. Schomberg was placed, to their
intense disgust, at the head of Dumbarton's infantry, once James's
favourite regiment. Some of his old troopers, however, still kept by the
captain whom they had known as Claverhouse.
Hamilton and his party pressed William to exempt from the general
amnesty certain members of the Scottish Council whom they named as
particular and unscrupulous instruments of James's tyranny, and unsafe
to be let go at large. But the Prince with his usual good sense refused
to drive any man into opposition: the past even of the most guilty
should, he said, be forgotten till he was forced to remember it. Against
Dundee and Balcarres he had been especially warned. He remembered both
well: Balcarres had married a lady of his family, and Dundee had fought
by his side. He asked them both to enter his service. They refused, and
Balcarres, plainly avowing the commission entrusted to him by James,
asked if, in such circumstances, he could honourably take service with
another. "I cannot say that you can," was the answer, "but take care
that you fall not within the law, for otherwise I shall be forced
against my will to let the law overtake you." Dundee was told that if he
would live quietly at home, no allegiance should be exacted from him and
no harm done to him.
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