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1716. MUTHILL, CRIEFF, ETC. 457
to the house and were begun to pull off the roof, which he perceiving
immediately caus'd pluck away the Ladders, and set fire to the house
below, swearing that he was only sorry that the Master and the Mistress
were not in the same state with the servants. The servants indeed
jumpt down amongst the rubbish and deep snow, but he stood by till the
house and all that was within it was intirely consum'd by the flames.
Next night about one in the morning the Collonell came with the
same party of the Garrison of Tullibardine and burnt the House of
Damside belonging to the Duke of Montrose, where his Factor David
Clow and his aged mother lived, and who had been forced to fly to
Stirling in the begining of the Rebellion. She made earnest applica-
tions to William Campbell one of the party to save her house and nel-
son's papers, and not onely offer'd but gave him all the money she had.
Which he had no sooner received, but he bid the party fall on Do
your Work and be Damn'd ; so that House with all that was in it, was
burnt as the rest, and the aged woman with her infant grandchildren
was left to ly on the snow.
From thence Robert Meinzies with a party was sent to burn a large
barn belonging to Abruthven, which had not been burnt the day before ;
but he finding it full of Corn, slipt away and did not do it at that time.
As the Collonell, his two Nephews and his party were going off, being
then begun to be apprehensive of the King's Army, he met with Lord
George Murray with another party just return'd from the Burning of
Duning, a town two miles to the south east of Abruthven. It seems
Lord George was afraid that that Gentleman's house shou'd escape, and
so was coming to see it share in the common fate.
The Collonell and he joyn'd theire partyes together, the one mostly
consisting of Athols, and the other of Broadalbin's men. So they and
theire joynt party, and with them John Stewart younger of Stenton and
Murray son to Baillie Murray in Dunkeld, both Captains, first
set fire to the remaining Office houses and Corns at Damside, and then