Stuart dynasty

PREFACE. xv
Gordon fidelity to the Chevalier's cause. Hence the
following appeal on Mar's part.
" Let me know as soon as possible what I may
expect in this, and for G-odsake make Dispatch as to
our general meeting, for I have now some of my
men here and out of Strathdone together. I'm un-
willing to let them seperat again, and it will be hard
keeping them if they lay still here long and do not
march, and I cannot go into A — le (Athole) w' these
few men of mine alone, or until I know certainly the
day you can join me there.
" Thers more depends on our drawing to a head and
meeting togither soon than most of our friends seem
to be awarr of, w ch makes me the more anxious and
pressing about it.
" They are so weak at Stirling and so ill-payed that
they scarce know what to do, insomuch that their
general, Whitham, is gone for London to represent
it and is not a thousand pitys that we should loose so
luckie an opportunity.
" My most humble service to my L d Huntly if he
be w l you I know I need not bid you show him this,
and if he be not, you'll take care to send him an
account of it. I'll be impatient to hear from you and
I am
" Your most humble servant,
" Mar."
He had written to the same correspondent a day
previously :
" You must say nothing of it to anybody except it