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FOOTNOTES:
[78] The passage in which Macaulay has explained the condition and
sentiment of the Highlanders at this time, will be familiar to every
reader. What may be less familiar is a pamphlet entitled "Remarks on
Colonel Stewart's Sketches of the Highlanders," published at Edinburgh
in 1823, the year after Stewart's book.
[79] Now the Third Dragoon Guards.
[80] In Napier's third volume will be found many translations in prose
from this poem, from which I have taken a few touches.
[81] Napier (iii. 552, note) quotes the following minute in the records
of the Estates:--"13th May, 1689: A missive letter from the Viscount of
Stormont to the President was read, bearing that the Viscount Dundee had
forced his dinner from him at his house of Scone, on Saturday last, and
therefore desiring that his intercommuning with him, being involuntary,
might be excused." He was cited, however as a delinquent, together with
his father-in-law, Scott of Scotstarvet and his uncle, Sir John Murray
of Drumcairn (a Lord of Session), who had also to assist at the
involuntary banquet. Throughout his short campaign Dundee was careful
never to take a penny from the pocket of any private person. He
considered, he said, that he was justified in appropriating the King's
money to the King's use.
[82] Creichton calls him Lord Kilsyth, but he had not then succeeded to
the title.
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