I know, I know. "Surely he should be painting Romans, or Renaissance, or summat?", you say, and you are entirely right. Still, I couldn't resist finishing just the one regiment for a Sedgemoor project that I hope to look at next year. These are the Queen Dowager's Foot, AKA Kirke's Lambs, hard-bitten veterans of the Tangiers garrison. There was nothing lamb-like about their behavior after the battle of Sedgemoor, when they ruthlessly hunted down fugitive rebels.
The historian Lord Macaulay describes the eponymous Colonel Percy Kirke as "a military adventurer whose vices had been developed by the worst of all schools, Tangier… Within the ramparts of his fortress, he was a despotic prince. The only check on his tyranny was the fear of being called to account by a distant and a careless government. He might therefore safely proceed to the most audacious excesses of rapacity, licentiousness and cruelty. He lived with boundless dissoluteness, and procured by extortion the means of indulgence." Nice chap. 
The bases are currently on sale.
