on which the letters V.D. are worked in gold, with a
Viscount's coronet above. The motto is "Great Dundee for God and me. J.
Rex." One child was born of the marriage in April 1689, and he died
three months after his father fell at Killiecrankie. Lady Dundee married
secondly William Livingstone, afterwards Lord Kilsyth, of whom mention
will be made elsewhere. A son was born also of this marriage, but in the
autumn of 1695 both mother and child were killed by the fall of a house
in Holland. Lord Kilsyth was "out in the Fifteen," and died an outlaw at
Rome in 1733, after which the title became extinct. Napier (iii.,
Appendix 2) gives a curious account of the opening of Lady Dundee's
coffin more than a hundred years after her burial in the family vault at
Kilsyth Church.

[46] "So when we came to Streven (Strathavon), I left the command to
Colonel Buchan, and desired him to return the troops to their quarters;
but, in his march, to search the skirts of the hills and moors on the
Clydesdale side; which he did, and gave me an account that, going in by
the Greenock-head, he met a man that lives down on Clydeside, that was
up buying wool, who told him that on Lidburn, which is in the heart of
the hills on the Clydesdale side, he had seen a great number of rebels
in arms, and told how he had considered the commanders of them. One of
them, he said, was a lusty black man with one eye, and the other was a
good-like man, and wore a grey hat. The first had on a velvet cap. But
before he (Colonel Buchan) could come near the place, a party of foot,
that he had sent to march on his right, fell accidentally on them. Four
of our soldiers going before to discover, were fired on by seven that
started up out of a glen, and one of ours was wounded. They fired at the
rebels, who, seeing our party of foot making up, and the horse in sight,
took the alarm, and gained the hills, which was all moss." Claverhouse
to the Archbishop of Saint Andrews (Alexander Burnet), Paisley, June
16th, 1684.

[47] Claverhouse to the Archbishop, Paisley, June 16th, 1684.

[48] "Privy Council Register," Edinburgh, September 10th, 1684: Napier,
ii. 410.

CHAPTER VII.[49]

I propose now to examine, with more care than there has yet been
occasion for, those charges of wanton and illegal cruelty which have for
close upon two centuries formed the basis of the popular--I had almost
written the historical--conception of the character of Claverhouse. I
have us