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the main body having gone to Penrith that day.
The 18th eighteenth the Rear-Guard rearguard
join’d joind
the main body at Penrith in the Evening evening. they They
had observed several severall partys of the Enemy
enemy, but upon
approach the advance of our Rear-guard
rear guard they always
retired:; once
a considerable body of their light Horse horse formed
form’d upon the road in order to stop their our advancing advanceing any
further, but upon some of the Highlanders throwing down their plaid
& plaids and running
up to attack them,
they went off at the Gallop retired, one of them only
being killed. After the baggage were
was sent on to Penrith a battalion of our foot & and
some Horse horse went through Ld Lord
Lansdale’s Lansdales parks at
Lowdarther
hall
of Lowdar, thinking to find some of the Enemy’s enemys
Light light horse about his House the house,
as he was Ld Lieutent. Lord Leutenant of the County county,;
accordingly some of them were seen at a distance, but rode
of off on sight of the Highlanders:.
some Some shots
were fir’d fired after them., At and at the same time some
partys of our Army army scouring the parks took arunning a
running footman of the D. of Cumbd. Duke of Cumberland
prisoner and another person clothed cloathed in
green who appeared appeard to be an officer, who informed
yt that the D. of Cumbd. Duke of Cumberland was within
amile a
mile with about 4000 Horse horse & and
Dragoons dragoons besides Light light
Horse horse & and Militia
militia,; upon wch which
Ld Lord George Murray (who always commanded the rear guard)
with 4 four battalions battallions viz
vizt.
Glengarys, Cluny’ Mcph.
Cluny-McPharsons, the Athole & Appin peo
and Appin people who always commanded the Rear-guard took
possession of a village called Clifton, being a mile from
Ld Lord Lonsdale’s Lansdale’s House
house upon the highway to and about 2 two miles
short of Penrith whe
Comments
Lockhart omits in relation to the Appin People: "who
always commanded the Rear Guard" but instead inserts
the words after Lord George Murray. 'Lowdther hall' - from
original.
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