[928] Home, p. 117.
[929] Lockhart Papers, vol. ii. p. 490.
[930] Idem, p. 401.
[931] Caledonian Mercury of 23d Sept. 1745.
[932] Jacobite Memoirs, p. 40.
[933] Home, p. 118.
[934] Home, p. 119. Jacobite Memoirs, p. 40. Lockhart Papers, vol. ii. p. 490. Johnstone’s Memoirs, p. 35.
[935] Old General Wightman, who commanded the centre of the royalist army at the battle of Sheriffmuir, was present at this battle as a spectator. Mounted on his “old cropt galloway,” he posted himself by break of day about a musket shot in the rear of Hamilton’s dragoons, and had not taken his ground above three minutes when “the scuffle” began. He says it lasted about four minutes. After “all was in route,” Wightman remained in his station, “calm and fearless,” according to his own account, till he saw all the dragoons out of the field, and the foot surrounded on all sides. Ex-provost Drummond, “who (says Wightman) would needs fight among the dragoons,” was also present, mounted on an old dragoon horse, which one Mathie had purchased for £4, and had used as a cart horse. Not being able to reach Gardiner’s dragoons before the battle began, Drummond joined the squadrons under Hamilton; but “to his great luck,” and to the “great comfort,” of his friend Wightman, he was swept away out of the field by the cowardly dragoons, and accompanied Cope to Berwick.—Culloden Papers, p. 224.
[936] Jacobite Memoirs, p. 40.
[937] Memoirs, p. 37.