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Parish of Inverury.

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opponents, yet the losses of the victores were not inconsiderable. They had twenty killed in the action, besides
losing a few men in the passage of the Ury. The loyalists had only 7 killed, but they had fifteen [wounded] and left
41 prisoners in the hands of their opponents. The prisoners included several personages of local [note]
amongst others, Principal Chalmers of Kings College; Mr. Maitland of Pittrichie; Mr. Forbes of Echt; Mr[ Gordon]
younger of Ardoch. Some interesting local recollections of the engagement still exist. The writer of
the Early history of Kintore recollects, when a boy, having pointed out to him by several old men the [spot]
where during the presence of the rebels in the quarter, they had hid themselves behind a feal [dyke]
at How Boat, now Port-Elphinstone. These parties had notice of the proximity of the rebels from
Dr. Copland, Minister of Fintray, who, seeing Lord Lewis Gordons army pass through Fintray, had started
as soon as he came out of Church, and riding through Kintore, gave the alarm. The Doctor (who, by the [way]
was father of the late Professor Copland of Marischal College), was aware of the Royalists having arrived
at Inverury, and judging that the advance of the Jacobite force was for the purpose of [assaulting]
them, he had hurried on by a different rout to give intimation to Macleod of their approach. There [is a]
local tradition that one of the parties, (young Macleod) engaged in the contest displayed great [bravery]
placing himself against a wall, and cutting down all who came before him, and being at last only
overthrown by a soldier mounting the wall behind, and killing him by a bayonet wound through the
head - a tradition, by the way, that seems to have some confirmation in the circumstance that a [skull]
was recently dug up in the Churchyard with the evident marks of a bayonet wound. We may [assume]
that one of the wounded of the royalists, who had been taken captive by the victors, was, on their [march]
to Aberdeen, left behind at Kintore, where, dying of his injuries, he was interred in the church[yard]
of the place. - (Extracts from the Early history of Kintore)

Transcriber's notes

There are several words missing - or guessed at, in the margin fold of this page.