e Viscount of
Stormont to the President was read, bearing that the Viscount Dundee had
forced his dinner from him at his house of Scone, on Saturday last, and
therefore desiring that his intercommuning with him, being involuntary,
might be excused." He was cited, however as a delinquent, together with
his father-in-law, Scott of Scotstarvet and his uncle, Sir John Murray
of Drumcairn (a Lord of Session), who had also to assist at the
involuntary banquet. Throughout his short campaign Dundee was careful
never to take a penny from the pocket of any private person. He
considered, he said, that he was justified in appropriating the King's
money to the King's use.

[82] Creichton calls him Lord Kilsyth, but he had not then succeeded to
the title. He is the same who afterwards married Lady Dundee.

[83] It is doubtful who this officer was. Mackay, in his memoirs, says
it was William Livingstone, calling him either a coward or a traitor for
not showing fight. If Livingstone it was, he may not have felt sure
enough of the men who were left with him to join Dundee in so open a
manner, and to fight was not his cue. But another account puts one
Captain Balfour in command. The whole account of the affair is even more
confused than are most of Dundee's exploits. But that he did make a
demonstration of some sort against the town is proved by the Minutes of
the Estates.

[84] None of his previous despatches from the Highlands are in
existence.

[85] Robert Young of Auldbar had married Dundee's youngest sister, Anne.

[86] The Duke of Gordon surrendered the Castle of Edinburgh on June
13th, after a resistance which towards the end assumed the character
almost of a burlesque.

[87] Sir George Mackenzie.

[88] Gilbert Burnet, the bishop. His wife was a sister of Lord Cassilis.

[89] On Dundee's retreat from Badenoch, some of his men who had
straggled for plunder had been caught and hung by Gordon of Edenglassie,
Sheriff of Banff.

CHAPTER XI.

Mackay had now decided on a new plan of campaign. He would apply to the
service of war a device employed by the Highlanders in the chase, and
put in practice against them their own tactics of the tinchel.[90] A
chain of fortified posts was to be established among the Grampians, and
at various commanding points in Invernessshire. On the west a strong
garrison was to be placed in the castle of Inverlochy, the northernmost
point of Argyle's country overlooking the stronghold of th