[623] Mackay’s Memoirs, p. 93. Mackay’s account says, “six companies of Grant’s regiment, making about 800 men,”—an evident error.
[624] Mackay’s Memoirs, p. 94.
[625] Memoirs of Dundee.
[626] Memoirs, p. 95.
[627] Shaw (History of Moray) says that above 100 of Buchan’s men were killed, and about 60 made prisoners, who were found in the castle of Lethindie and the mill; and he adds, as a thing deserving of remark, that “Colonel Macdonald of Keppoch, who was ever keen for plunder, had never once fought for his king, would not encamp with the other rebels, but with his men quartered at Garvlin, half-a-mile distant, and thereby escaped without loss.”
[628] Shaw’s Moray.
[629] Memoirs, p. 98.
[630] “His mastership (of Forbes) understanding the word of command, wheel, better than advance, turned the battle into a race, and won; for he was first at Aberdeen, and alarmed the town with a frightful outcry, The enemy, the enemy’s coming.”—Memoirs of Dundee.
[631] Mackay’s Memoirs, p. 101.
[632] “I believe it shall fare so with the Earl of Seaforth, that is, that he shall haply, (perhaps) submit, when his countrey is ruined, and spoyled, which is the character of a true Scotsman, wyse behinde the hand!”—Letter to the Privy Council, 1st Sept. 1690. Appendix to Memoirs, No. 73. Mackay was directed by the privy council, by warrant, dated 7th Oct. 1690, “to transport the person of Colin, Earl of Seaforth, with safety from Inverness to Edinburgh, in such way and manner, as he should think fit.” In consequence of this removal, he was entered a prisoner within the castle of Edinburgh, on 6th Nov. following, whence he was liberated on 7th Jan. 1692, on finding caution to appear when called upon. He was bound not to go ten miles beyond Edinburgh. He was again imprisoned, but made his escape, and was apprehended at Pencaitland, on 7th May 1692, and again kept in close confinement, within the castle of Edinburgh. He was afterwards liberated, on giving security for his peaceable behaviour.—Records of the Privy Council.