Earls of Middleton, Lords of Clermont and of Fettercairn

36 The Earls of Middleton.
assembled, November ist, Middleton applied by letter
for more forces to suppress the Gordons, and it was
resolved to send Henry Barclay's regiment and
another to his aid. Early in 1647 David Leslie was
likewise sent to him. 1
After the delivery of the king to the English
Parliament the Scotch army returned home. It was
now remodelled, reduced to a force of 6000 foot and
1200 horse, and placed under the command of Lord
Leven, Lieutenant-General David Leslie, General-
Major Middleton, and General-Major Holburne.
Middleton was likewise made Governor of the Boig,
and under him Lieutenant-Colonel John Toms.
In April Leslie was sent southwards with part of
the forces, and the rest remained with Middleton.
Huntly was still in arms in the mountains.
Middleton pursued Huntly through Glen Moris-
ton, Badenoch, and other places. He soon afterwards
captured three of Huntly's chief friends, Gordon of
Innermarkie, Gordon the younger of Newton Gordon,
and the Laird of Harthill, and sent them to Edin-
burgh, where the two latter were executed in the
following October. Huntly himself was captured
about November, 1647, by Lieutenant-Colonel Men-
zics, in Strathdon, just as he was retiring to rest.
Tea gentlemen who were with him made a gallant
1 Guthrie.