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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

CHAPTER XIII
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Some of them were quartered at such a distance that they did not arrive in time.

He soon, however, had with him the three Scotch regiments which had served in Holland, and which bore the names of their Colonels, Mackay himself, Balfour, and Ramsay.

There was also a gallant regiment of infantry from England, then called Hastings's, but now known as the thirteenth of the line.

With these old troops were joined two regiments newly levied in the Lowlands.

One of them was commanded by Lord Kenmore; the other, which had been raised on the Border, and which is still styled the King's own Borderers, by Lord Leven.


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