Dalziel died in 1685, and was succeeded in the command by Dunmore.
Napier gives the muster-roll of Claverhouse's regiment for May, 1685. It
consisted of six troops, of which the colonel, as the custom then was,
commanded the first in person, the other captains being Lords
Drumlanrig, Ross, Airlie, Balcarres, and William Douglas; hardly the
men, perhaps, to sanction the pranks of Macaulay's Apollyons and
Beelzebubs. Napier also quotes an amusing passage in a letter from
Athole to Queensberry, which, as he says, may recall memories of a
certain historic injunction of later times, "to take care of Dowb."
Athole had been superseded in his command of the Life Guards by
Montrose, and when the latter fell sick, made interest with Queensberry
to be reinstated. "As you will oblige me," the passage runs, "pray
remember Geordie Murray [who held a commission in the regiment], but not
in wrath."
[75] Creichton.
[76] It is not clear that Dundee had an audience of William. Macaulay
says in one place that he was not ungraciously received at Saint
James's, and in another that he employed the mediations of Burnet. Both
statements are of course compatible with each other. The latter rests on
Burnet's own authority; but for the former I can find none in any of the
writers from whom Macaulay has taken his narrative of these days.
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