The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . -, and had informed them ^ Fishers and Harriss depositions. ^Barclays narrative, in the Life of James, ii. 548.; Paper by Charnock among the NairneMSS. in the Bodleian o X X. < 2 7: n 3 3 V Ji G u O ^ rt <t c o 2590 HISTORY OF ENGLAND chap, xxi where Barclay was to l)e found and b}- what tokens he was to be known,The\- were ordered to depart in small parties, and to assign differentreasons for going. Some were ill : some were weary of the service :Cassels, one of the most noisy and profane among them, announced th
The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . -, and had informed them ^ Fishers and Harriss depositions. ^Barclays narrative, in the Life of James, ii. 548.; Paper by Charnock among the NairneMSS. in the Bodleian o X X. < 2 7: n 3 3 V Ji G u O ^ rt <t c o 2590 HISTORY OF ENGLAND chap, xxi where Barclay was to l)e found and b}- what tokens he was to be known,The\- were ordered to depart in small parties, and to assign differentreasons for going. Some were ill : some were weary of the service :Cassels, one of the most noisy and profane among them, announced that,since he could not get military promotion, he should enter at the Scotchcollege, and study for a learned profession. Under such pretexts abouttwenty picked men left the palace of James, made their way by RomneyMarsh to London, and found their captain walking in the dim lamplightof the Piazza with the handkerchief hanging from his pocket. One ofthese men was Ambrose Rookwood, who held the rank of Brigadier, andwho had a high reputation for courage and honour : another was MajorJohn Bernardi, an adventurer of Genoese extraction, whose name hasderived a melancholy celebrity from a punishment so strangely prolongedthat it at length sho
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