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A75745 An Account of the taking the late Earl of Argyle, and the running away of the rebels in Scotland 1685 (1685) Wing A405; ESTC R211819 800 2

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An Account of the Taking the Late Earl of ARGYLE and the Running away of the Rebels in SCOTLAND Published by Authority Whitehall June 22. at Nine in the Morning SInce the Account we received yesterday from Scotland which is already made Publick in the Gazette a Flying Pacquet arrived this Morning with Letters Dated at Edenburg the 19th Instant at Ten in the Forenoon with this further Account The Earl of Dumbarton Commander in Chief of his Majesties Forces in Scotland having notice that the Rebels had passed the River Levin above Dumbarton Marched from Glascow the Seventeenth very early in the Morning after them they taking their way towards Sterling and overtook them in the Parish of Killerne The Horse and Dragoons kept up the Rebels till the Foot arrived but they were Posted in so strong a Ground and it was so late in the Evening that it was not thought fit then to Attack them so the Kings Army stood in Battle all Night to be ready so soon as Day-Light appeared to fall upon them but the Rebels with great silence Marched off in the Night towards the River Clyde which they Swam with their Horse and carried over their Foot in Boats near a Village called Kilpatricke and so got without much resistance into Renfrew The Kings Army missing the Rebels in the Morning Marched with all diligence to Glascow where after they had rested two Hours the Earl of Dumbarton with the Horse and Dragoons Marched after them leaving the Foot to follow with all the haste they could make but soon after he received Intelligence That the Rebels were Running away in great Confusion The same day being the 18th about seven at night three Servants belonging to Gentlemen of Renfrew found the late Earl of Argyle running away with a Bonnet on his Head endeavouring to get towards the Ford of Clyde at Inchennan He refused at first to tell his Name or to render himself whereupon they Wounded him and would have Killed him but that he told them he was the Earl of Argyle Then they took him and brought him to their Commander the Lord Cochran who carried him Prisoner to Glascow to the Earl of Winton who Commands there and who sent this Relation to His Majesties Privy Council at Edenburgh Printed by Tho. Newcomb in the Savoy 1685.