"Given at our court at St. James', this 3rd day of February, 1714-15, in the first year of our reign. "By His Majesty's Command, "WILLIAM PULTENEY." _To our trusty and well-beloved Colonel William Kerr._ In compliance with this order, Captains Lewis Dollon's and Peter Renourds' troops from the royal dragoons, and Captains William Crawford's, George Dunbar's and James Levingtone's troops from the greys, (being augmentation troops raised when KERR'S regiment was disembodied,) with a sixth troop raised near London, were constituted a regiment, which now bears the designation of SEVENTH, OR QUEEN'S OWN HUSSARS; but was then styled "KERR'S DRAGOONS." Soon after its second formation, the regiment marched into quarters in Yorkshire, Lancashire, and the county of Durham; and in July His Majesty was pleased to confer upon it the distinguished title of "HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES' OWN ROYAL REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS"[5] in honour of Wilhelmina Carolina, consort of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. The augmentation of the army, and other measures adopted by the government for the preservation of tranquillity, did not sufficiently intimidate the disaffected so as to prevent an appeal to arms. In the early part of September the Earl of Mar raised the standard of the Pretender in the Highlands, and summoned the friends of the Stuart dynasty to his aid. At the same time, the PRINCESS OF WALES'S dragoons were ordered to march to Scotland and join the troops commanded by Major-General Whetham, encamped at Stirling.