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particulars which were hushed up, or merely glanced at, in the partial
annals of the time.

"So soon as they saw us coming down upon them, they marched off in
great haste towards Dumblain, and left several of our people they
had taken, among which was Lord Panmuir, who offered to give his
parole, not knowing what had passed upon the eighth; but he was told
by the person he sent to Lord Isla, that he could not take a parole
from a rebel, and they were in such haste that they lost him in a
little house, with several others near the field, where we found
them when we advanced and brought him along with us to Ardoch, two
miles furder, where we stayed all night and next day, until that we
heard the enemy were marched off to Stirling. He is now pretty well
and in no danger. Earl Loudoun passed him as he lay in the field,
without taking any notice of him, and he was wounded there by the
dragoons after he had surrendered to them; but I hope there will be
one other day of reckoning for these things. My Lord Mar sent off
two or three people to take care of Lord Forfar when he heard he was
wounded, and one of them waited of him to Stirling. He expressed a
good dale of consern that he should have been ingadged against his
countrymen, and sent a breslet off his arm to Lord Mar, so that we
all wish he may live. A good pairt of our baggage and the provisions
we had, were distroyed by our own people who went of from our left.
We are now getting provisions and every thing ready as soon as
possible; and I am hopefull we will be in a condition in a very few
days to pass forth without oposition.

"We have got accounts this day of a victorie obtained by our friends
in the south, the particulars of which we long for. I have sent you
some copies of the printed account of the action to give our
friends.

"So adieu."

Notwithstanding the humane attentions shewn by the Earl to Lord Forfar,
that brave and generous nobleman died of his wounds. After lingering
more than three weeks, he expired at Stirling on the eighth of
December. He was wounded in sixteen different places, but a shot which
he received in his knee seems to have been the most fatal injury. The
conduct of the Earl appears in strong contrast with that of the Earl of
Isla; but we must remember that each party had its