[1090] Household Book in Jacobite Memoirs, p. 155.
[1091] Boyse, p. 132.
[1092] Kirkconnel MS.
[1093] Now embodied in the United Presbyterian Church.
[1094] History of Stirling, p. 146.
[1095] History of Stirling, p. 150.
[1096] Jacobite Memoirs, p. 77.
[1097] General Hawley, alluding to this affair, in a letter to the lord-president, 12th Jan. 1745–6, says, “We have had a small brush with them (the Highlanders) yesterday at Airth, up the Forth with 300 men in boats; killed and wounded about fifty, with their chief French engineer; crippled two of their guns, burnt all their boats, and hindered their transporting their great cannon from Alloway for some days.”—Culloden Papers, p. 266.
[1098] Jacobite Memoirs, p. 78. Kirkconnel MS. Scots Magazine, vol. viii.
[1099] Johnstone’s Memoirs, p. 116.