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quocunque vocaret, septimo Septembris, certissimè sese recep-
turos, Makintoshio occultùm fideliter polliciti sunt. Makin-
toshius, motis a Delchappill Tentoriis, secundo Septembris Die
Gartinam profectus est, ibique, positis, duarum Noctium spatio,
castris, nonnullos inde ex suorum amicorum praecipuis, mag-
namque Populi partem, viatici afferendi gratiâ, legavit, tresque
Cohortes, unam, ad utrumque Findornensis fluminis latus, aliam
verò ad rivum Nairnensem, Kilravokam et Calderam versus,
tertiam, denique, circum fluvium Nessensem ad Petti usque et
Ardirshier et Delnes, ad, eorum locorum Clanchattanos, qui
vel aversi, vel nondum, adhuc, commonefacti erant, excitandos,
dimisit, secumque, duntaxat, patruum suum Lauchlanum Clun-
eium, et Invereium unâ cum ducentis ex Populi præstantissimis
in Satellitium conservavit.

QUARTO Septembris, Gortelak, quinto verò Abirchalidor,
ubi, quatriduum, usque quò coeteræ suæ provenientes copiæ
ascendissent, commoratus est, advenit. Sexto enim Septembris,
Chartam quandam, a Comite Morraviensi ex aratam et sub-
scriptam, omnes ejus Clientes, sese, ad Dannowan, septimo
instantis Mensis, sub ingentis damni supplicio, conferre juben-

promised faithfully to Mackintosh, secretly, that they would by no
persuasion be absent, but would most certainly betake themselves
to him, to whatever place he called them, on the 7th of September.

Mackintosh moved his camp on the 2nd of September from
Delchapel and marched to Garten, and there encamped for two
nights. From thence he sent some of his principal friends, and a
large part of the people, for the purpose of bringing provisions,
and sent away three companies, one to both sides of the river
Findhorn, the other to the water of Nairn, towards Kilravok and
Calder; and lastly, the third around by the water of Ness to
Petty, and as far as to Ardersier and Delnes, to raise the Clan-
chattans of these places, who were either averse or had not as
yet been warned, while he kept with himself only his uncle
Lauchlan, Cluny, and Inverey, along with two hundred of the
ablest of his men as a guard.

On the 4th of September he came to Gortuleg, on the fifth
to Aberchallader, where he remained four days, until the rest of
his forthcoming forces should come up. On the 6th of Septem-
ber he received a paper indited and subscribed by the Earl of
Moray, commanding all his vassals to go to Darnaway on the
seventh of that month, under a heavy penalty. This caused