Britain, in the fame drefs, and without any difference of featuttB
The moft antient is on board, in a bed-chamber at Dwot/wB
houfe, with, her name and age (140) infcribed. The Hon. jV/iB
Torke has another, at his feat near Cheltenham. There is a fouitlB
in poffeffion of Mr. Scott, printer, in Chancery-Lane. And tlitl
fifth is in the ftandard clofet in Windfor caftle. The laft wasi I
prefent from Sir Robert Car, Earl of Roxburgh, as is fignified oi I
the back; above that is written, with a pen, Rembrandt, whit! I
muft be a miftake, for Rembrandt was not fourteen years of »
in 1614, at which time it is certain that the countefs was h
living*. The pidture at Dublin, which is much in the mannerol
that celebrated painter, is probably a copy done by him after font! I
original he might have met with in his own country, for it does m I
appear he ever vifited England.
Take the earlieft opportunity of paying my refpedts to Mil
Oliphant, poft-mafter general, at his feat of Roffie, a few mikil
from Dupplin. I am in a particular manner indebted to this geil
tleman for the liberal concern he took in my journey, by diredtij
that all my correfpondencies relating to it ihould be freed,
forwarded to me. A true inftance of national politenefs; andil
peculiar honor done to myfelf.
In my road crofs the Earn, and pafs by the church of Ft ,
viot, once the fite of a PWiJh palace, where Kenneth II. departs!
this life f , and where Malcolm Cmrnore is faid to have refided.
Near this place, a little to the weft, are the veftiges of a cad
occupied by Edward Baliol, immediately before the battle of M
* Grmngtr’t Biogr. vol. III. 164. f Gal trie, I. 156,
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h i f e 133a. Donald, Earl of Marr, regent in the minority
Jof David II. lay encamped on the hill, at no great diftance from
'ijyupplin houfe. By an unhappy but common difagreement in
ifeudal times, the other part of his forces were feparated under the
•¡¡Earl of Dunbar, at Auchterauder, a few miles diftant. This had
•determined Marr to ftand on the defenfive till he could be joined
Jby the former : but Baliol crofting the river in the night, and beginning
his attack, he was induced partly by that, partly by the
ifreproach of timidity from the Earl of Carrick, to fuffer his pru-
idence to give way to ralhnefs, and to renew the fight with Baliol,
Supported by the Englijh archers, the beft troops then in Europe.
SA horrible carnage enfued: three thoufand Scots fell on the fpot,
%mong whom were the flower of the nobility ■, with no farther lofs to
-•jhe enemy than two knights, and thirty-three ’fquires, without that
-of one common man. The day was particularly fatal to the Hays.
Hiftorians relate, that the name would have been extinft, had not
sfeveral of the warriors left their wives pregnant. We may be permitted
to qualify this, by fuppofing, as feems to have been the
cafe, that the line of- the chieftain would have failed but for fuch
an accident, a pofthumous child preferving the race.
I Determine on a little journey up Strathearn, and to the head A u g . 26.
of the river, at the loch of the fame name. At a fmall diftance
jfrom Dupplin, at the top of the hill, firft meet with the Roman Ro m a n r o a d .
road, twenty-four feet broad, formed with great ftones, and vifible
in many places. It continues one way by Tibbirmoor to Bertha,
land from thence over the Tay, near Perth and to the weft pafles
a little to the north of the caftle of Innerpeffery, and is continued
Ion the other fide of the river, where it falls into the camp at Stra-
N geth,