[550] Gordon’s Hist. of the Family of Gordon, vol. ii. pp. 587, 588.
[551] Balcarras, pp. 41–2. Gordon’s Hist. of the Family of Gordon, p. 592.
[552] Gordon’s Hist. of the Family of Gordon, pp. 593–4.
[553] Balcarras, p. 24.—Minutes of Convention, 16th March.
[554] It is to this interview that Sir Walter Scott alludes in his well-known and stirring ballad of “Bonnie Dundee.”
—“The Gordon has asked of him whither he goes?
‘Wherever shall guide me the soul of Montrose!
Your grace in short space shall have tidings of me,
Or that low lies the bonnet of Bonnie Dundee!
‘There’s lands beyond Pentland, and hills beyond Forth,