Nothing of any Moment happen’d after this, till the Death of King Charles II.  The Summer after which, the three English and three Scotch Regiments receiv’d Orders to pass over into England, upon the Occasion of Monmouth’s Rebellion; where, upon our Arrival, we receiv’d Orders to encamp on Hounslow-Heath.  But that Rebellion being soon stifled, and King James having no farther Need of us, those Regiments were order’d to return again to Holland, into the proper Service of those who paid them.

Tho’ I am no stiff Adherer to the Doctrine of Predestination, yet to the full Assurance of a Providence I never could fail to adhere.  Thence came it, that my natural Desire to serve my own native Country prevail’d upon me to quit the Service of another, though its Neighbour and Allie.  Events are not always to direct the Judgment; and therefore whether I did best in following those fondling Dictates of Nature, I shall neither question nor determine.

However, it was not long after my Arrival in England before I had a Commission given me by King James, to be a Lieutenant in a new rais’d Regiment under the Command of Colonel Tufton, Brother to the Earl of Thanet.  Under this Commission I sojourn’d out two peaceable Campaigns on Hounslow-Heath; where I was an Eye-Witness of one mock Siege of Buda:  After which our Regiment was order’d to Berwick, where I remained till the Revolution.

King James having abdicated the Throne, and the Prince of Orange accepting the Administration, all Commissions were order’d to be renew’d in his Name.  The Officers of our Regiment, as well as others, severally took out theirs accordingly, a very few excepted, of which Number was our Colonel; who refusing a Compliance, his Commission was given to Sir James Lesley.

The Prince of Orange presently after was declar’d and proclaim’d King, and his Princess Queen, with a conjunctive Power.  Upon which our Regiment was order’d into Scotland, where Affairs appear’d under a Face of Disquietude.  We had our Quarters at Leith, till the Time the Castle of Edinburgh, then under the Command of the Duke of Gordon, had surrender’d.  After which, pursuant to fresh Orders, we march’d to Inverness, a Place of no great Strength, and as little Beauty; though yet I think I may say, without the least Danger of an Hyperbole, that it is as pleasant as most Places in that Country.  Here we lay two long Winters, perpetually harrass’d upon Parties, and hunting of somewhat wilder than their wildest Game, namely, the Highlanders, who were, if not as nimble footed, yet fully as hard to be found.