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in the case of aSurprise a surprise. I answered that in such times of danger or
during awar a war we had a
different method of using useing the plaid,
that with one spring I would
could start to my feet with drawn sw
sword, and & cock’d
pistle pistol
in my hand without being in the least encumber’d
incumber’d with my bedcloths bedcloaths. Several Severall such questions he put to him
me; then rising quickly from his seat he calls for a dram,
when the same person whispered whisper’d me asecond a second
time, not to pledge him the stranger
but not to drink to him; ,by which seasonable hint I was
Iwas confirmed confirm’d in my Suspicion
suspicion who he was, having . Having taken
a glass of wine in his hand he drank to us all round and soon after
left us.
19th
On the 19th 20th & 21st his
R. H. was in private with Sr Tho. Sir Thomas Sheridan,
Athole the Duke of Athole & and Clanronald
and on the 22nd Clanronald and Allan Mcdonald
younger Brother brother to Kinlochmoydart were
sent to Sr Alexr Sir Alexander Mcdonald of Slate &
and the Laird of Mccloed Mcloed to enduce
induce them to join his R. H. according to duty &
and promise;Glenaladel, another gentleman and I being likewise
sent to conveen Clanronalds men and to get some of the best of them
for the P’s P-‘s guard in the mean time, and others
to be imployed employd in unloading the ship of the
arms and ammunition.This was our
Comments
'19th' is a Margin Note.
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