although scottish seamen received protection against arbitrary impressment onto english men-of-war under charles ii, a fixed quota of conscripts for the royal navy was levied from the sea-coast burghs during the second half of the seventeenth century. royal navy patrols were now found in scottish waters even in peacetime, such as the small ship-of-the-line hms "kingfisher", which bombarded carrick castle during the earl of argyll's rebellion in 1685. scotland went to war against the dutch and their allies in the second (1665–67) and third anglo-dutch wars (1672–74) as an independent kingdom. scottish captains, at least 80 and perhaps 120, took letters of marque, and privateers played a major part in the naval conflict of the wars.