What else fell with him there
was well expressed by William. When the news from Killiecrankie came
down, the King was urged at once to send a large army into the
Highlands. "It is needless," he answered, "the war ended with Dundee's
life."
FOOTNOTES:
[90] See the sixth canto of "The Lady of the Lake."
"We'll quell the savage mountaineer,
As their tinchel cows the game."
The tinchel was the name given to the circle of hunters which, gradually
narrowing, hemmed the deer into a small space, where they could be
easily slaughtered.
[91] Mackay complains bitterly in his Memoirs of "the unconcerned method
of the Government in matters which touch them nearest as to their
general safety, each being for his particular, and fixed upon his
private projects, so as neither to see nor be concerned for anything
else."
[92] "When in front of Blair Castle their real destination was disclosed
to them by Lord Tullibardine [the heir of Athole did not assume this
style till 1695]. Instantly they rushed from their ranks, ran to the
adjoining stream of Banovy, and, filling their bonnets with water, drank
to the health of King James; and then, with colours flying and pipes
playing, 'fifteen hundred of the men of Athole, as reputable for arms as
any in the kingdom' [Mackay's words], put themselves under the command
of the Laird of Ballechin and marched off to join Lord Dundee.
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