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Appendix I. 267
as lie shall receive from ye King, deliver'd by a person who
shall come on board and repeat twice ' Bray-Mar.' To put
up before he arrives on each topmast head fanes blew and
red (streamers blue and red), but to show no flag, and to have
only a French flag on board.
" I will give notice by ye first and every opportunity of
ye sailing of this ship."
Paper XCIT.
Lord Mar to H. S.
*** A complete account of Lord Mai's departure from Montrose, sent
from the place of landing in France, which is not named. As will be
seen in a succeeding letter of the Chevalier, Boulogne was visited, and
arrangements made to return to Paris via Abbeville, and yet all the
historians speak of Gravelines as the spot where the Chevalier dis-
embarked.
« Sir, " February 10, 1716.
" I wrote to you on the 3rd from Montrose, but very quickly
after that things took entirely another turn, for then wee
thought that wee should have had some breathing time, by
the Enemies not marching for some time, but on the contrary,
different from the intelligence we had, they marched without
stoping at Perth and were within four miles of Montrose and
Brichen on Saturday afternoon.
" This sufficiently shewed us that they wer resolvd to
follow us on go where wee would. Inverness not being
reduced by those it was entrusted to, and by this no time left
for us to do it, before the Enemie came up, made the stand wee
propos'd to have made there out of view, and should the K
(the Chevalier) gone on to that, wee had been in a worse case
than at Montrose, without any way for him to gett off, his
staying could have been of no use to his friends, but made
their condition worse, happen almost what would, so he at last
took the resolution of going off that night in a ship that was
by accident there which had some time ago come from France.
" He was pleased to order me, L d Drummond, and L d Mari-
shall,* positively to go along with him with one or two of his
* James II. in 1458 created Sir William Keith Earl Marischal of Scotland,
a hereditary dignity which passed in regular succession to the above-named
holder of the title, viz. George, tenth Earl, who joined the Chevalier. The
Earl Marischal became a distinguished Prussian diplomatist, and his brother
was the famous Marshal Keith, friend of Frederick the Great. The Earl
Marischal's account of the flight from Montrose differs from that of Lord
Mar's (see remarks on Paper CXIII.).