He answered that he would live quietly, if he were
not forced to live otherwise. Early in February the two friends left
London for Edinburgh.[76]
FOOTNOTES:
[69] Claverhouse to Queensberry, June 16th, 1685.
[70] Napier, iii. 464: this Murray was Alexander Stuart, Earl of Murray,
descendant and heir of the famous Regent. He declared himself a convert
to the Church of Rome at the same time as Perth and Melfort.
[71] Napier, iii. 435: quoted from Fountainhall.
[72] Burnet, ii. 341.
[73] The memoirs of Colin Lindsay, third Earl of Balcarres, were
presented to James at Saint Germains in 1690. The edition I have used is
that printed for the Bannatyne Club in 1841 by the late Lord Crawford,
from a transcript made by James, the son of the writer, and
great-grandfather of Lord Crawford. The editions previously printed in
1715 and 1754, and in Walter Scott's edition of Somers's Tracts
published in 1814, contain many passages not to be found in the first
transcript, and declared, by its latest editor, to reflect the opinions
and sentiments of the copyist rather than those of the original author.
[74] Cannon's "Historical Records of the British Army:" Napier, iii.
475-76. Claverhouse's own regiment was disbanded early in the following
year. The first colonel of the Greys, then officially known as "The
Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons," was Dalziel, Lord Charles Murray
(afterwards created Earl of Dunmore) serving as captain under him.
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