After this service the regiment marched to the castle of Bran, near Kainloch-Benchven, Inverness-shire; and in 1721 it proceeded to Edinburgh.
1722
The regiment quitted Scotland in May, 1722, and marched to Hungerford: in the summer it was encamped, with several other corps, on Salisbury-plain, where it was reviewed by King George I. on the 30th of August, and afterwards returned to Hungerford.
1723
Early in 1723 the regiment marched to Reading and Windsor; it was subsequently encamped in Hyde-park, and in the autumn marched to Bristol.
1725
1726
1727
In May, 1725, the regiment commenced its march for Berwick; in July, 1726, it was removed to Lancashire; and in January, 1727, it marched to Canterbury, from whence four companies were detached to Dover, Ashford, Sandwich, and Feversham.
At this period the Spaniards had commenced the siege of Gibraltar, which fortress had been captured by a British and Dutch armament in 1704, and had been ceded to Great Britain at the treaty of Utrecht, in 1713. The colonel of the Fourteenth, Jasper Clayton, was Lieutenant-Governor of Gibraltar; he proceeded thither in January, 1727, and took the command of the garrison, which opened its fire on the Spanish troops on the 21st of February; and in March the regiment embarked to take part in the defence of that important fortress, where it arrived on the 21st of April, together with a battalion of Foot Guards, and the Governor, General the Earl of Portmore. The regiment landed immediately, and it had the honor to take an active share in the successful defence of this valuable entrepôt to the Mediterranean. The Spaniards continued the siege until many men had perished in the attempt, and the tremendous fire of their artillery had produced little effect besides the bursting and damaging of their own cannon. In the early part of June the fire slackened, and on the 18th of that month hostilities ceased.
1729
The regiment was afterwards selected to form part of the garrison of Gibraltar, where it was stationed during the following fifteen years. Previously to quitting England, two companies were added to its establishment; these companies remained on home service; they were stationed in the south of England until 1729, when they were disbanded.