[176] Grant of Rothiemurcus.
[177] Atholl Correspondence, p. 211.
[178] See vol. i.—Life of the Marquis of Tullibardine.
[179] Lord Elcho's MS.
[180] See a very curious account of the Siege of Blair Castle, written by a subaltern officer in the King's Service. Scots' Magazine for 1808.
[181] Forbes, p. 108.
[182] Scots' Magazine, p. 33.
[183] Ibid.
[184] There was one horse which seemed endowed with supernatural strength, for when, eventually, the Castle was relieved, the horse, which had been shut up without forage, was found, after eight or ten days of abstinence, alive, and "wildly staggering about" in its confinement. It was afterwards sent as a present by Captain Wentworth, to whom it belonged, to his sister in England.
[185] See Forbes, p. 108, 109.