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advised and despatched him with instructions to converse with the heads of
the Jacobite party {Memoyiah of Murray of Broughtoti) ; Glenbucket himself
states that he got a major general's commission, Jan. 28. 1745, figured con-
spicuously in the second Jacobite rising ; Aug. 18, met Prince Charlie at
Glenfinnan, delivering up Capt. Swettenham of Gen. Guise's Reg. ; Aug.
28, sent by the Prince from Dalwhinnie to raise men in the Braes of Mar
(Elcho's Affairs of Scotland, 246) ; Sept. 7, seized the Duke of Gordon's
horses at Gordon Castle, others at Fochabers and others at Auchlunkart
(Fraser's Chiefs of Grant) ; Sep. 14, wrote to Prince Charlie from Huntly
(Letter preserved in P.R.O., S.P. Dom. Geo. II., bundle 68, No. 20). His
regiment is estimated at " not 200 men " {Spalding Club Misc., i. 349), 427
{S.P. Scotland, Letters and Papers, 2nd series, bundle 26, No. 7) and
2000 {Caledonian Mercury, 1745, Sep. 25); it formed part of the brigade,
made up of the men of the Duke of Atholl, Lord Perth, Lord Ogilvy, Roy
Stuart, Cluny, and Kilmarnock; Sep. 17, arrived at Forfar {Caledonian Mer-
cury, 1745, Sep. 24); Oct. 4, joined Prince Charlie at Edinburgh; in the
march south he is described as " an old man much crouched," who " rode on
a little gray highland beast " (Allardyce's Jacobite Papers, 353, 354) ; Dec.
4-6, at Derby, Glenbucket being put up at Alderman Smith's ; Dec. 17, at
the skirmish at Clifton Muir, Glenbucket, " who was very infirm, stayed at
the end of the village on horseback," and gave Lord George Murray his targe,
which was convex, and covered with a plate of metal which was painted ;
" the front was cleared in two or three places with the enemy's bullets " (Rose-
htty's, List, 369). 1746, Jan. 17, apparently at the battle of Falkirk (Allar-
dyce's Historical Papers, 354) ; Mar., back in Strathdon and Cromar levying
money and forcing men to join {Spalding Club Misc., i. 391) ; Apr. 16, fought
at Culloden in the second line ; after the battle he attended the conference at
Loch Arkaig ; June, tried, in absence, at Southwark (Allardyce's Jacobite
Papers, 353-4, where his banner, now in possession of Rev. Andrew Meldrum,
Logierait, is illustrated) ; he was found guilty and his house was burned before
his eyes, just as he had managed to escape {Croughly Book, 38), and his
X&n&s iode.\\.e.d {Scottish Forfeited Estates, Scot. Hist. Soc, 178, 180, 182);
Nov. 5, travelling across Aberdeenshire in the guise of a beggar, Glen-
bucket, with James Moir, of Stoneywood, Sir Alexander Bannerman, and two
others, embarked on a small Swedish sloop on the coast of Buchan, landing in
Norwa}', and thence after great privations reached Stromstaedt, Sweden, where
he nearly died, ultimately finding his way to St. Ouen, France, from which
he wrote to Edgar, Prince Charlie's secretary, a long account of his sufferings
(printed in Browne's History of the Highlands, iv. 17), asking for a duplicate