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Duke of Gordon's Interest Glenlivat and Strathdon, at least . . . 500 M'Dugalls, McNobbs and McLouchlins . . . 250 The Bearer has tamper'd with the Grants, and if properly managed, at least . . . 500 Good men . . . . 9,660
He soon returned to the Lowlands, and stayed there till he learned that a considerable body of troops had been sent to apprehend him, He then betook himself to the hill country as his last refuge, pushed northward through Strathdon and Strathbogie, crossed the Spey, and, on the morning of the first of May, arrived with a small band of horsemen at the camp of Keppoch before Inverness.
Captain Forbes of Newe, and from forty to fifty of his clan, on their return to Strathdon from the Braemar gathering, were attracted by the fishing to the river's edge, when they were carried over the water on the backs of the Queen's men, who volunteered the service, "Macdonald, at their head, carrying Captain Forbes on his back."
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