CHAPTER

   I parentage and early days.

  II battle of ramillies.

 III military preferments.

  IV checks of conscience.

   V his conversion.

  VI letters.

 VII domestic relations.

VIII conduct as an officer.

  IX intimacy with the author.

   X devotion and charity.

XI embarks for Flanders.

XII return to England.

XIII revival of religion.

XIV apprehensions of death.

XV battle of prestonpans.

The colonel’s personal appearance.

APPENDIX I

APPENDIX II

[Transcriber’s Note:  At the time of this book, England still followed the Julian calendar (after Julius Caesar, 44 B.C.), and celebrated New Year’s Day on March 25th (Annunciation Day).  Most Catholic countries accepted the Gregorian calendar (after Pope Gregory XIII) from some time after 1582 (the Catholic countries of France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy in 1582, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland within a year or two, Hungary in 1587, and Scotland in 1600), and celebrated New Year’s Day on January 1st.  England finally changed to the Gregorian calendar in 1752.  This is the reason for the double dates in the early months of the years in this narrative.  January 1687 in England would have been January 1688 in Scotland.  Only after March 25th was the year the same in the two countries.  The Julian calendar was known as ‘Old Style’, and the Gregorian calendar as ‘New Style’ (N.S.).

(Thus a letter written from France on e.g.  August 4th, 1719 would be dated August 4, N.S.)]

LIFE OF COL.  JAMES GARDINER.

CHAPTER I.

Parentage and early days.

When I promised the public some larger account of the life and character of this illustrious person, than I could conveniently insert in my sermon on the sad occasion of his death, I was secure, that if Providence continued my capacity of writing, I should not wholly disappoint the expectation; for I was furnished with a variety of particulars which appeared to me worthy of general notice, in consequence of that intimate friendship with which he had honoured me during the last six years of his life—­a friendship which led him to open his heart to me, in repeated conversations, with an unbounded confidence, (as he then assured me, beyond what he had used with any other man living,) so far as religious experiences