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Johnstone, p. 75.

This statement tends somewhat to disprove the assertion that Roman Catholic priests occupied the pulpits at Derby, made in the papers of the time. See p. 136

Maxwell.

Johnstone, p. 82.

Maxwell p. 103.

Lord Murray's Narrative, Forbes, p. 88.

General Stuart, I., p. 78.

Forbes; note, p. 94.

Chambers's Hist. of the Rebellion, p. 70.

Tales of a Grandfather, iii. 166.

Forbes, p. 100. Maxwell, p. 115. See, also, for the references to the last eight pages, Lord Mahon, Henderson, Chambers, and Home.

Scots' Magazine, p. 138.

Atholl Correspondence, p. 163. et passim.

Tales of a Grandfather, vol. iii. p. 176.

Maxwell, p. 131; also Forbes, p. 193.

Lord George Murray's Journal. Forbes, p. 166. Johnstone's Memoirs, p. 116. Maxwell, p. 133.

According to Lord Elcho's account (MS.), ten or twelve only were killed, and the rest taken prisoners.

Forbes' Johnstone.

Grant of Rothiemurcus.

Atholl Correspondence, p. 211.

See vol. i.--Life of the Marquis of Tullibardine.

Lord Elcho's MS.

See a very curious account of the Siege of Blair Castle, written by a subaltern officer in the King's Service. Scots' Magazine for 1808.

Forbes, p. 108.

Scots' Magazine, p. 33.

Ibid.

There was one horse which seemed endowed with supernatural strength, for when, eventually, the Castle was relieved, the horse, which had been shut up without forage, was found, after eight or ten days of abstinence, alive, and "wildly staggering about" in its confinement. It was afterwards sent as a present by Captain Wentworth, to whom it belonged, to his sister in England.

See Forbes, p. 108, 109.

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