to back, they might make two fronts. In this posture they stood all that night, and for most of the day following; and towards the evening had orders to joyn the army, with full assurance of safety; for by this time the Marquess had informed himself fully of the matter, which he owned to Locheill to be a meer accident, for which he was not to be blamed, and signified as much in a letter he wrote on that subject to my Lord Tarbat, who intimated it to the Councill.

The enemy continueing still on the opposite side of the Loch, att the house of Ardkinglaws, and there happening a light skirmish between a party of theirs, and another commanded by Captain Mackenzie of Suddy, Locheill, who laid hold on all opportunitys of shewing his zeale in that service, made what haste he could to have joyned him, with a designe, if possible, to have drawn on ane engagement; but before he came up with them, he was commanded to return by ane express order from the Marquess. In two days thereafter, the enemy retreated towards a place called Glenderrowen; and the King's troops marched to Ardkinglaws, which they had deserted, and followed them till they arrived att the mouth or entry of the glen; and, had they proceeded with any tollerable speed to the place where the enemy was posted, they might either have killed or made them all prissoners. But, instead of marching directly through the glen, the army was ordered to turn about by the foot of the hill, and direct their course towards Stralachlan; by which means the passage was left open for their escape.

The nixt day the army was ordered to march back the same way, and to enter the glen, after the enemy were gone; and the same night Locheill was ordered to march with a strong detatchment of the Clans, to prevent Argile's crossing the ferry of Portnadernag. Though he marched all that night with the greatest expedition, yet Argile crossed the ferry before they could come up with them. Nixt day, however, he surprized the Laird of Isleand-greig, with his son and others of the rebells, whom he delivered prissoners upon his return to the Marquess. Argile was soon thereafter taken by a weaver, who attacked him att the foard of Inchinnan near Glasgow, as he was crosseing that small river, and used him barbarously. Rumbald, the maltster, who had formerly

been concerned in the Reyhouse Plot, and many other leading men of that party, were apprehended about the same time and sent to Edinburgh.

The army disbanded on the 21st of June 1685, with orders to attend the Marquess att Glasgow on the 7th of July thereafter, and Locheill parted with him good friends, in appearance.

The troubles being thus settled, the Councill wrote letters of thanks to all the principall persons who had been most active in that service. That to Locheill was in this form :

"RIGHT HONourable,

"These are warranding yow to disband the men under your command, and to return them home, with thanks for your harty concurrance in his Majesty's service; and to desire yow to be ready to come out when his Majesty's service, and your oun interest, shall require it. This, in name of the Councill, is injoyned yow by your most humble servant,

(Subscribitur)

"PERTH, CANCELL. I. P. D."

The Earl of Argile was beheaded publickly att the cross of Edinburgh, upon the first of July thereafter, without any new process against him, for his actuall rebellion. The reason that lawers give for not bringing him to a second tryall is, that haveing been condemned already for the crime of High Treason, he could not, by law, be tryed again for the very same crime of Treason, for which he already stood convicted, the law haveing exhausted its revenge by the first sentance. But truely the matter seems indifferent; for if his sentance for the first crime seemed too severe, the second filled up the measure of his iniquity.

Great were the honours that were heaped upon the Marquess of Athole. He was admitted into the Privy Councill, appointed Keeper of the Great Seall, and had several other, offices bestowed upon him, whereby he came to be in great power and authority. Though his Lordship seemed satisfyed of Locheil's innocence with respect to his missfortune att Invereray, yet he inclined, upon I know not what new grounds, to have him brought to a tryall for it before the Councill. He

transmitted a very unfavourable representation of it to the King, and obtained a warrand for apprehending him. But, as he knew that this design was not easily to be executed by force, he procured ane order for Captain Mackenzie of Suddey, for marching into that country with his companey, under pretext of suppressing some disorders which he alleadged had lately happened there; but his private orders were to surprize Locheill, and bring him prissoner to Edinburgh. His eldest daughter, Mrs Margaret, being then in the city, had secretly information of the designe against her father from some of his friends in the Privy Councill, and immediatly dispatched one Cameron, a souldier in the City Guards, with letters advertizeing him of his danger. The messenger ariving in due time, Locheill stept aside while the Captain made his visite, and being fully determined to ride post to Court, to which he was much incouraged by letters from several of his friends there, and particularly from the Earl of Breadalbane, intimating that he was still in favour with his Majesty, and that the information against him was not near so invidious as was given out by some who inclined to sow discord between him and the Marquess of Athol. He sett out that very day, and having conversed with some of his principall friends in Edinburgh as he passed by, he took post horses, and arrived att London before it was known to his antagonists that he had left Lochaber.

He found his friends att Court so prepossessed with the notions of his guilt, which had been industriously spread about by his adversarys in the most odious colours, and so firmly perswaded that the King would not see him, but abandon him to the common course of law, that they all one by one, after repeated application, absolutely refused to introduce him, and many of them seemed even afraid to converse with him, though in the most cautious and private manner.

Robert Barclay of Ury, the famous Quaker, and great favourite of King James, a person of very extraordinary parts, whose sister Locheill had married some few months before, wrote in his favours to several of the English Nobility, with whom he was very intimate and familiar, as he was even with his Majesty. All these declined to do him that peice of service, though they mostly offered him their friendship with all the

good offices they could do him in private. Mr Barclay, in his letter to Locheill, advises him to endeavour by all means to obtain private access to the King, and not to trust the clearing of his innocencey to any second hand; and to remember the Earl of Middletoun's reproofe with respect to his foolish modesty, which was the onely bar to his advancement, and had been so often the ruine of his affairs. The reproofe alluded to in this letter happened on this occasion: Locheill, the last time he was att Court, happening in companey with Mr Drummond of Balhaldys, who soon thereafter married his eldest daughter, to make a visite to the Earl of Middletoun, he, among other things, solicited his Lordship to interceed for him with the King for dispatch in his affairs. The Earl, who had observed from his Majesty's speaking with Locheill for some minutes, every time that he chanced to see him, and from many other marks of distinction, in what high degree of favour he was with his Majesty, answered, that he was surprized how he, who was the distinguished favourite att Court, came to demand his Lordship's small interest; for, to his certain knowledge, nothing stood in his way to the highest preferment but his oun excessive modesty! "And it seems very odd to me, (said he,) that a person indued with your prudence, judgement, and fortitude, should be so bashfull in his oun affairs as to want resolution to demand common justice from a Prince so prepossessed in your favours that he can deny yow nothing: But the treuth is, yow have not the assurance to look any person that is your superior stedfastly in the face, except he has a naked sword in his hand!" Locheill answered, that having passed the greatest part of his youth in the hills, his Lordship knew he had not the benefite of a courtly education.

This was indeed Locheil's greatest foible, which he never could gett the better of, though he often attempted it. This very Earl of Middletoun, however, deserted him on the occasion I am speaking of, and among all his friends att Court he could find non that had courage enough to serve him, except Leutenant-General Drummond, who att the same time undertooke no more than to accquant his Majesty that Locheill was in the city. This General was a son of the Lord Maderty, and being in his younger days bred up in the Muscovite service, he left

it during the Rebellion in order to serve the King, and joyned General Middletoun and the other Loyalists of these times. After the death of General Dalziell, he was, in reward of his merite, made General of the Scotch forces, and afterwards created Lord Viscount of Strathallan by King Charles II. He was ane honest man, a faithfull and sincear friend, and ane incorruptible patriot; besides, he distinguished himself by his learning and parts, and wrote a genealogical history of the Drummonds with judgement and spirite, but it has not yet been printed.

The Lord Strathallan, haveing, as he promised, informed the King of his friend's being in town, his Majesty desired to see him nixt morning, while he was in his dressing-room; and being accquanted that he had been several days there, and that all his accquantances had declined to introduce him, "Tell him," said the King, "that he needed non to introduce him to us, and that we expected the first visite!" These expressions of his Majesty's goodness was more than Locheill expected. He punctwaly obeyed his orders, and throwing himself att the King's feet, said, that he came there as a criminal with a rope about his neck, to putt himself and all his in his royall mercy. His Majesty gave him his hand to kiss, and commanding him to rise, intimated that he had heard of his missfortune, and that accidents of that nature had often fallen out among the best disciplined troops; and subjoyned, that as he believed his zeall in that service had occasioned it, so nothing but his being guilty of actwall rebellion would ever convince him that he could be dissloyall. Locheill expressed the deep sense he had of his Majesty's royall goodness in the best manner he could; and his Majesty haveing desired him to relate the particulars of their late expedition against Argile, he did it in few words, and in the most modest manner, and carefully avoyding all reflections on the conduct of others, he related his oun missfortune in such terms as made his Majesty say, that he ought rather to have been pityed and conforted for so afflicting ane accident than accused; and that it was wholly owing to his Generals, who ought to have informed him of the posts of the several partys, which would have effectwally prevented it.

His Majesty being dressed, he commanded Locheill to follow him