l dark night, and then marched back to the same villages which had
been marked for our quarters the night before.

The enemy had about seven hundred men killed or wounded, amongst whom
was the Earl of Forfar killed, and the Earl of Islay wounded, and two
hundred and twenty-three taken prisoners, and we had about 150 killed or
wounded, and eighty-two taken; but among those killed we had three
persons of note, the Earl of Strathmore, his unkle Auchterhouse, and
Clanronald, and the Earl of Panmure very much wounded. The loss of
colours was almost equal on both sides; but the enemy got five piece of
our cannon, which we could not carry off, those belonging to the train
having run away with the horses when they saw our left broke; and thus
ended the affair of Dumblain, in which neither side gained much honour,
but which was the entire ruin of our party.

Some unlucky mistakes which happened that day, must here take place;
first, an order to the whole horse on the left to march to the right,
which so discouraged the foot of that wing to see themselves abandoned,
that to it may be attributed their shameful behaviour that day; nor were
these horse of any advantage to us where they were posted, for the
ground was so bad that they could never be brought to engage. Another,
of no less consequence, was the mistake of the officer who was sent to
reconnoitre the Duke of Argile's army in the afternoon, for he having
taken his remarks more by the number of colours than the space of ground
they occupied, made his report that the enemy was betwixt two and three
thousand foot strong, when in reality there was no more than three
battalions, not making in all above one thousand foot, the other colours
being what the Duke had just taken on our left, and being almost the
same with his own, he now used them to disguise the weakness of his
troops by making a show of four battalions more than he had, the ground
and mud walls by which he was cover'd not allowing to see that he had
formed only two ranks deep; this mistake hinder'd us from attacking him
in the evening, which it's probable we might have done with better
success than we had in the morning.

Next morning the Duke of Mar, finding most of our left had run quite
away and was not yet returned, retired towards Perth, as the enemy had
already done into Stirling.

FOOTNOTES:

[53] Dunning, in Perthshire.

D. THE OLD PRETENDER (DECEMBER).

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