[202] The Duke of Gloucester died in the same year.
[203] I find no sufficient ground for assuming that the regiment was Unton Crook's of the New Model, which had been disbanded two months before.
[204] For the return of the Buffs to England see the Holland Papers (Record Office), Bundles 233-235.
[205] The historian of the Second regiment of Foot has printed a great deal of matter respecting Tangier. Details will also be found in Clifford Walton's History of the British Standing Army, p. 22.
[206] No reader, I am confident, will blame me for leaving him alone with his Macaulay for the account of this insurrection.
[207] It is worthy of note that but two of these regiments were raised in the districts indicated by their present titles, viz., the 11th (North Devon) and 12th (East Suffolk).
[208] Expedition, vol. ii. pp. 37, 73.
[209] The tune, which is in the key of G major and in 6 4 time, may be found in modern editions of Tristram Shandy, at the end of chap. iii. of the second book. It is admirably suited for fifes and drums.
[210] It is possible that there was difficulty in finding ready writers among the military, and still more difficulty in persuading them to unite sword and pen.
[211] But indeed I have failed to discover by what legal authority martial law was enforced on the Parliamentary troops in the Civil War. There seems to have been no effort to give so much as a semblance of legality to the power of the generals.