_Regiments._ _Colonels._ _Men._
Brought forward 2900
Ogilvie Lord Ogilvie 500
Glenbucket Gordon of Glen. 427
Perth, Duke of Perth (and
Pitsligo's foot) 750
Robertson Robertson of Strowan 200
Maclachan Mac. of Maclachan 260
Glencarnick Macgregor 300
Glengary Macdonald of Glen., jun. 300
Nairn Lord Nairn 200
Edinburgh John Roy Stuart (and Lord
Kelly's) 450
In several small corps 1000
{Lord Elcho }
Horse { } 160
{Lord Kilmarnock }
Lord Pitsligo's Horse 140
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Total 7587
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[94] "My grandfather," says General Stuart, "always wore tartans; truis,
and with the plaid thrown over the shoulder, when on horseback; and
kilt, when on foot; and never any other clothes, except when in
mourning." App. XXII.
[95] Sketches of the Highlanders, by General Stuart of Garth. Vol. II.
App. XXII. Also note.
[96] See the True Patriot, under the head Apocrypha, 1745.
[97] Stuart's Sketches, II. 76.
[98] Tales of a Grandfather, iii. 398.
[99] General Stuart's Sketches of the Highlanders, p. 67.
[100] State Trials, vol. xviii. p. 686.
[101] John Sobieski Stuart.
[102] Vestiarium Scoticum, p. 100, note. Edited by John Sobieski Stuart.
[103] These observations are all taken from the Notes to the Vestiarium
Scoticum, a beautiful work, extremely interesting, as being written by
the hand of a Stuart, and full of information.
[104] Maxwell, p. 70.
[105] Baines's History of Lancashire, iv. 69.
[106] Tales of a Grandfather, iii. p. 98.
[107] Maxwell, p. 71.
[108] Tales of a Grandfather.
[109] Baines's Lancashire, ii. p. 71; also iii. p. 254.
[110] Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xv. p. 644.
[111] I omit Horace Walpole's exact expression, which is more witty than
proper.
[112] Sketches of the Highlanders, by General Stewart, vol. ii. p. 257;
also Georgian Era, pp. 56, 57.
[113] Brown's Hist. of the Highlanders, vol. iii. p. 197.
[114] General Stewart, p. 233.
[115] Ibid. p. 246.
[116] Maxwell, p. 71.
[117] Chambers's Hist. of the Rebellion; Edition for the People, p. 54.
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