[167] Tales of a Grandfather, iii. 166. [168] Forbes, p. 100. Maxwell, p. 115. See, also, for the references to the last eight pages, Lord Mahon, Henderson, Chambers, and Home. [169] Scots' Magazine, p. 138. [170] Atholl Correspondence, p. 163. _et passim_. [171] Tales of a Grandfather, vol. iii. p. 176. [172] Maxwell, p. 131; also Forbes, p. 193. [173] Lord George Murray's Journal. Forbes, p. 166. Johnstone's Memoirs, p. 116. Maxwell, p. 133. [174] According to Lord Elcho's account (MS.), ten or twelve only were killed, and the rest taken prisoners. [175] Forbes' Johnstone. [176] Grant of Rothiemurcus. [177] Atholl Correspondence, p. 211. [178] See vol. i.--Life of the Marquis of Tullibardine. [179] Lord Elcho's MS. [180] 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. [181] Forbes, p. 108. [182] Scots' Magazine, p. 33. [183] Ibid. [184] 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. [185] See Forbes, p. 108, 109. [186] Jacobite Correspondence, p. 217. [187] Jacobite Correspondence, p. 218. [188] Maxwell, p. 13. [189] Maxwell, p. 134. [190] These circumstances will be fully detailed in the Life of the Duke of Perth. [191] Maxwell. [192] Colonel Ker's Narrative, Forbes, p. 140 and 141. [193] Lord Elcho's MS. [194] Maxwell, p. 153. [195] Lord Elcho's MS. [196] Colonel Ker's Narrative, p. 142. [197] Lord G. Murray's Account, Forbes, p. 124. [198] Lord Elcho's MS. [199] Lockhart, vol. ii. p. 533. [200] Atholl Correspondence, p. 221. [201] Brown's History of the Highlands, pt. v. p. 261.; from the Stuart Papers. [202] See Stuart Papers. Brown, _passim_. [203] Stuart Papers; from Dr. Brown. [204] Secretary to the Chevalier St. George. [205] Stuart Papers. Appendix. Brown, p. 95. [206] Chambers. Ed. for the People, p. 141. JAMES DRUMMOND, STYLED DUKE OF PERTH. In a history of the House of Drummond, compiled in the year 1681, by Lord Strathallan, the author thus addresses his relative, James, Earl of Perth, on the subject of their common ancestry: