. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . left that service in 1678, with a specialrecommendation from William to James, Duke of York, and atonce got a commission as a lieutenant in the Scottish Horse-Guards,who were about to be employed in putting down the insurgentCovenanters. That Claverhouse executed his orders in this taskwith unflinching severity we may well believe ; that he exceededthem or that he rejoiced in executing them there is no evidenceexcept that of Covenanting legend. He was defeated in a skirmishat Drumclog and victorious at Bothwell Brig, 1679. He was mad
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . left that service in 1678, with a specialrecommendation from William to James, Duke of York, and atonce got a commission as a lieutenant in the Scottish Horse-Guards,who were about to be employed in putting down the insurgentCovenanters. That Claverhouse executed his orders in this taskwith unflinching severity we may well believe ; that he exceededthem or that he rejoiced in executing them there is no evidenceexcept that of Covenanting legend. He was defeated in a skirmishat Drumclog and victorious at Bothwell Brig, 1679. He was madeSheriff of Wigtown and Sheriff-depute of Dumfries and Kirkcud-bright, and in this capacity he incurred the hostility of the greatGalloway family of the Dalrymples and compelled the head thereofto flee to Holland (1683), where he began to hatch the Scottish sideof the Revolution which was to come five years later. In the sameyear, 1683, Claverhouse obtained a seat in the Scottish Privy Council,but his position there was none too secure. The family feud in. JOHN GRAHAM OF , FHiST VISCOUNT DUNDEKFrom llic portrait belonging to Miss ; Mulvillc Face f*. 244 JOHN GRAHAM 245 Scotland was by no means a thing of the past, and the Grahams hadmany enemies, such as the Douglases, always on the look out to tripthem up. This perhaps explains the unquestioning allegiance ofClaverhouse, a firm Protestant, to the cause of King James, whenthat King was at his worst and that cause at its nadir. When James, with his usual want of sense, stripped Scotland ofall royal soldiers, Claverhouse had to march away to Salisbury, incommand of the Scottish cavalry; there he was created ViscountDundee, and, when James fell back on London and most of hisaiTny deserted him, Dundees troopers remained faithful; Dundeeand Balcarres, alone of Scots, implored the King to be firm and tothrow himself on the loyalty of Scotland, but in vain. All but fiftyhorse of Dundees own regiment were disbanded,
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