The other versions agree with #A a# in the material points. Inverey’s numbers are diminished. In #B# 10, #C# 11, Brackley has only his brother with him, meaning, perhaps, when he leaves his house. The fight was not simply at the gates, but was extended over a considerable distance (#A# 33, #B# 11), and other men joined the Gordons in the course of it. In #B# 12 we learn that the miller’s four sons (#D# 10, the miller and his three sons) were killed with the Gordons (and William Gordon’s wife, or bride, in #A# 25, is ‘bonnie Jean, the maid o the mill’). In #B# 15, #D# 12, Craigevar comes up with a party, and might have saved Brackley’s life had he been there an hour sooner. In #A a#, #b#, #C#, #D#, Brackley’s wife is Peggy (Peggy Dann, wrongly, #D# 14, 15); in #B# 19 (wrongly) Catharine Fraser. #D# makes Catharine the wife of Gordon of Glenmuick (Alexander Gordon, #A a# 35), who rives her hair, as Brackley’s wife does not (14, 15, 18, 19). In #C#, Peggy Gordon, besides feasting Inverey, keeps him till morning, and then shows him a road by which he may go safely home. #C b# adds, for poetical justice, that Inverey at once let this haggard down the wind. This affray occurred in September, 1666. The account of it given by the Gordons (the son of the murdered laird and the Marquis of Huntly) was that John Gordon of Brackley, having poinded cattle belonging to John Farquharson of Inverey, or his followers, Inverey “convoked his people, to revenge himself on Brackley for putting the law in execution; that he came to the house of Brackley, and required the laird to restore his cattle which had been poinded; and that, although the laird gave a fair answer, yet the Farquharsons, with the view of drawing him out of his house, drove away not only the poinded cattle but also Brackley’s own cattle, and when the latter was thus forced to come out of his house, the Farquharsons fell on him and murdered him and his brother.”