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hospitable manner which indeed were as were well
as many others other of our friends freinds
yt who followed soon after,
(Para break in Lockhart)
. this This night we lay at Touch,
and nixt next day being the 14th we
marched from Touch to Falkirk
the The
town of Sterling Stirling, abandoned by the Dragoons
dragoons were was ready to receive us, tho’
we did not enter; and provisions being demanded,
were readily soon
provided for us by order of the Magistrates majestrates.
; that night we stayed As we passed Sterling
Stirling Several Cannon severall
cannon were fir’d fired at us from the
Castle castle., when we came to Falkirk, hearing
that Col Gardiner. At Falkirk we understood that Colonel
Gardner with his dragoons had retreated east 6
six miles further to Linlithgow
Lithgow, and the
Pr. P. ordered a detachment detatchment of
500 men to advance befor before the main body & and attack
the dragoons in their Camp
camp; but Gardiner Gardner, dreading
the worst, march’d marchd off at 7 a clock o’clock
in the Evening evening
& and encamped at Kirkliston water
Kirkliston-water 6 miles west of Edn Edinburgh.
We encamped 3 miles to the east of Linlithgow & and
the 16th marched towards Corstorphin Corstorphine
whither Gardiner Gardner still retired,
where we heard he was Joined joined
by Hamilton’s Hamiltons Edn& and some voluntiers from Edr
were resolved to wait & and receive us at Corstorphin
Corstorphine;, but their picket, upon the approach
of our advanced guard retreated to their main body & and altogether soon
fled by the North north side of Edr Edinburgh
to Leith & Musselburgh and Musleburgh, the
foot returning to Edr the town.
(Para break in Lockhart)
We encamped that night at Grey’s Grays milns within
two miles to the 2 miles S. West west of
Edr the
City city, where some of the magistrates of Edr
majestrates of Edinburgh waited on the P. to desire
time to draw up a Capitulation capitulation. His
H. R. H.s H’s answer was
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Comments
Lockhart mainly changes a few word orders, but not the meaning.
However, he does add the fact that "we did not enter"
(Stirling)
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