Ossian Collection > Defence of the Scots Highlanders, in general; and some learned characters, in particular

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hand, and claimed it as their right over the
Scots, being ahvays their right according to
their ancient cuftoms ; but though the king
was obhged to grant their demands, yet
they loft the vidory, becaufe they were fo
much elated after their fuccefs at the battle
of Clitherow, that they over-valued their
own prowefs, and defpifed the enemy too
rafhly. It is remarkable, fays Dalrymple,
that the different Englifh hiflorians calls
thefe men of Galloway, PiBi, Scotiy Gal-
wenfis, Loenenjis *, in fronte belli crant
PiSli -f* . Acres hoenenjium qui gloria??! p?'c~
mi Jit us J a rege Scoto?'u??i i?2vito p?'c€ripue-
re?it J. Thus we find that David king of
the Scots, was forced againfl his inclination
to yield their ancient right of leading the ar-
my into battle, a plain proof that the Pidts
were very powerful at that time, and that
the Scots* were only mixed with the Pi<fts,
who flill remained in their old pofTeilions in
* T. Haguftald, page 262.
t P^gc 322.
j Huntington, page 288.
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