Genealogical account of the Barclays of Urie

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documents, and authors who have acci-
dentally treated of them as they occurred
in the course of their history ; particularly
Gilbert Gordon, of Sallach, in a manuscript
continuation of the Family of Sutherland, in
which he relates many of the transactions of
his own time, of which he was eve or ear
witness, or had from undoubted authority,
and is therefore esteemed, by all who have
read him, a very just and impartial historian.
He gives account in page 60, that " Colonel
David Barclay, with an army under his com-
mand, went to Banff, in pursuit of the Earl
of Crawford, who had raised an insurrection,
and burned several towns, particularly Fra-
serburgh, whom he entirely routed." He
also gives account, page 6'2, that Ci Colonel
David Barclay, along with Major General
Middleton, in May, \Q&Q, dislodged Mont-
rose, and relieved the town of Inverness,
(then besieged by him) by the said Colonel
Barclay's crossing the river with his regi-
ment of horse, above the town ; and falling
upon Montrose's forces, routed both him