as dated the day after the battle, calls it as impudent a forgery as
Fingal. But in fact it bears no date at all: the handwriting is declared
on the best authority to be beyond question contemporary; and there is
no absolute proof that Dundee did not live long enough at least to
dictate an account of his victory to James. It is tolerably certain that
he would have done so had his strength permitted him. But in a letter
written from Dublin in the following November by James to Ballechin,
there is no mention of any letter from Dundee, and his death is there
alluded to as having occurred at the beginning of the action. This, of
course, is not conclusive; James's actual words are, "the loss you had
... at your entrance into action," which need not imply instant death.
On the whole, however, the balance of evidence seems to me to prove that
Dundee died where he fell, and that the letter is not genuine, though
certainly no forgery of Macpherson's. Those who are still curious on a
point which is, after all, of no very great importance, will find it
amply discussed in a note to the edition of Dundee's letters published
for the Bannatyne Club, and in an appendix to Napier's third volume. A
stone still marks the spot where Dundee is said to have fallen, and was
seen by Captain Burt less than fifty years after the battle.

INDEX.

Abjuration oath, the, 121

Acts against the Covenanters, 35-6, 40, 45, 121

Aird's Moss, skirmish at, 91

Annandale, Lord, 200

Argyle, Marquis of, 21, 22, 24, 25, 28, 34
Earl of (son of preceding), 45, 119, 139
Earl of (son of preceding), 171, 193

Athole, Marquis of, 44, 46, 139, 145 _note_, 153, 154, 159, 162, 188, 194
men of, behaviour of the, 196 _note_, 211 and _note_

Auchencloy, execution of Covenanters at, 128-31

Auchinleck, Robert, execution of, 131-2

Balcarres, Earl of, 141, 142, 143, 148, 149, 151, 155, 156, 157, 166, 189
memoirs of the Revolution by, 144 _note_

Balfour, Colonel, 200, 205, 211
of Burley, John, 58, 60, 62, 65, 69, 83

Ballechin, Stewart of, 194
letter to, from James, 215 _note_

Belhaven, Lord, 200, 211

Blair Castle, 194, 195, 201, 214
Church, 214, 215

Bothwell Bridge, battle of, 83-6

Brown, John, execution of, 116-22

Bruce, Andrew, of Earlshall, 55, 91

Buchan, Colonel, 107, 108, 109, 145

Burnet, Bishop, on Claverhouse, 4, 151 _note_

Cameron of Lochiel, Sir Ewan,