General Dalzell's action in obtaining cloth for uniforms--other details of uniform, 1683-1704--inventory of clothes and accoutrements, 1706--regulation of George II. relating to the Greys' uniform, 1751--further changes, 1759-1788 (bearskins, 1768)--account of articles of cavalry equipment furnished to recruits, 1803-1807--order to cut hair short, 1808--changes in 1811 and 1812, badge of an eagle displayed on the guidons--"Waterloo" added to guidons and grenadier caps to commemorate the battle--changes in 1846 (officers' bearskin cap with white hackle feather), 1864, and 1894. CHAPTER VIII Composition of the Greys at their first recorded muster in 1683, from the original Roll in Edinburgh--pay of the regiment--account of money paid by the Greys' Quartermaster in 1688, from an original document of the Greys--List of Officers, past and present. APPENDIX Extracts from orders of the Scots Greys' Troop Orderly Book--notes of Inspection Returns, from the Record Office--a notable prayer, commending the Greys to favour--copies of two holograph letters of Charles II. relating to Thos. Dalzell, and translation of General Dalzell's Russian commission, furnished by Captain Lindsay--entry from the original MS. in the General Register House, Edinburgh, 1685--extract from "Papers connected with the Royal Scots Dragoons," 1696--1704-6 (two letters from General Dalzell)--extract from order in Record Office, 1684--muster-roll, 1702-3--account of the Waterloo Ball, from reprint in the _Globe_, 1906--extract from pamphlet, "Military and Biographical Notices of the Fallen Heroes," 1815--extract from contemporary pamphlet relating to cavalry losses at Waterloo--letter of William Knox, 1759--anecdotes of the Greys--song, "The Bonnie Scots Greys," by A. C. E. Welby--inscription on mural tablet in memory of Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Pate Hankin, Kt.--extract from letter written by the Hon. Charles Hamilton to his brother, during the Westphalian campaign--notes on Creichtoun's Memoirs, and on General Dalyell, by J. B. Dalzell, Esq. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. _Facing Page_ "+Scotland for Ever.+" By kind permission of the Artist, and by arrangement with the proprietors of the copyright, Messrs. S. Hildesheimer & Co., Ltd. _Frontispiece_ Facsimile of "Ane Account deu be Thomas Dalzell of Bins for his Fathers funerall, to George Porteous the 2 of Sept 1685" ix. Facsimile of a letter to General Dalzell, dated 30th December, 1654, wholly in the King's own hand xiii.