Robert Forbes, A.M.
[386] Printed in Jacobite Memoirs, pp. 348-362.
[387] Thus the attested copy had it, without the word 'the.'
[388] If this be so, how then came I by the copy in vol. i. p. 181? For I can declare I was master of that copy upon July 14th, 1747, i.e. exactly a month and a half before the date of the Captain's letter, along with the attested copy, to the Countess of Dundonald. [See ff. 692-700 postea.]
[389] Three or four miles, say other accounts, and justly too, as must be confessed by those who know anything of the country about Nairn, where the attack was to have been made. See ff. 158, 448, 661.—F.
[390] This page contains several particulars not so much as mentioned in any of the accounts given by others, as may be seen by making a comparison.—F.
[391] The Prince marched all that night on foot, says Ker of Gradyne, f. 662.—F.
[392] With tears in his eyes, says the other copy, f. 181.—F.
[393] These words are wanting in the foresaid copy. See f. 182.—F.
[394] Nine squadrons, says the foresaid copy, f. 182.—F.