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low ; only Huntley said, plain enough, he'd have
all his people, foot and horse, joyn the clans. I
must say that I was afraid of a separation; and
I thought it my du'fcie to advertise Generall
Hamilton of the jealousie which I had, that he
might tell Mar of it; for I could call it no other.
But I thought it .was easier preventing these
things in the beginning, then remeading them
afterwards, if once taken root ; and tho' I knew
the state of our affairs too well to presage good
of them, yet a separation of that kind might well
nake us worse, it could not better lis. I Iknow lie
told Mar of it. How he managed it, I can't tell,
but Hamiitone told me, next day, thev had made
Glengarie maedlie drunk, as he called it, and had
broke the neck of that -project. Honever, Hunt-
ley insisted at this time and afterwards, to have
his foot at Pearth to joyn the clans. It's certain
all the clans at their first comeing, had no better
notion but that of being commanded by Huntley;
and Captain of 'Clamronakl, who was the first of
them who cam© to Fearth, said that he engaged
to serve the King, but, next to him, he'd follow
no man so willinglie as Huntlie; and this in
Mar's antiohamber ; for these were then strangers
to us, and were not as yet 'reconciled to Mar, so
as to give them the intire trust. But Of was not
longe ere Mar's address and the common cry
changed their minds, and lay'd out all Huntley's
faults, so that they had no further regarde to
him than to flatter him a little; as to the rest,
they did what they pleased; non' can I think but
the publick monie given in a double portion to
Glengarie, 'who had the key of the others, with
everie one's getting his own quota, contributed a
great dale to it ; for Generall Gordon, then whom
no man was a more humble servant of his before
forgot, as soon as anie of them, his obligations to
his chief. What made me find greatest fault,
that if Huntley had a mind to any thing, why
did he not give his reasons, and speak plain and
above board, and, in that case, ten to one I'd
been of his side; but we'd at least had the plea-
sure of knowing the meaning of it.
On November 10 the horses "cantoned" about
Dinnen, and the foot in and about Auchterarder.
That night all the Frasers left and 200 of Huntly's
beet men, who were under the command of Glen-
bucket deserted, because, according to Sinclair,
"they have been designedlie more oppressed with
dutie than any other."
On November 11, the horse reached Auchterar-
der Moor, where Mar bold Sinclair that
My Lord Huntlie and the clans who were to
march before it in a separate body, had refused
to march except he'd order me and the Fife
squadron : why not them ? I told him I knew
nothing of the matter": and that was the same