Page numbered 32
(the
crossing out above is also omitted in Lockhart)
Jany. 17 The P. finding yt Gen. General Hawley
did not move from his Camp camp at Falkirk (wch
lay in the Feild below & a little N.W. of the Town) to attack him
held a Council council of war,
January the seventeenth, about midday wherein it was resolved
to march & and attack him Hawley. accordingly
Accordingly we set sett out in 2 two
columns, and under the Cover cover of the
Torwood Tor wood & and
holding above (to the South of) the Torwood
to the South passed the water of Carron at Duni-pace Dunipace,
and moved moveing on very quickly to gain the
hill above Falkirth to on the
its S. West the and lying on the south west of Falkirk.
Our two Columns
keeping columns keept at an
ane equall distance of about 200 two hundred paces
till we came in sight of the Enemy ? about a
2 miles & enemy about a mile and a half distant
from us. at At the same time yt that
we begun began
our march Ld Lord John Drumd.
Drummond with most of the horse had gone to reconnoitre
reconoitre the Enemy enemy & and
made a Movement movement as if intendinged
he intended to march by the highway high way
thro’ through the Torwood Tor wood straight
to the Enemy closs up to them, And and this
might occasion what some accounts tell us, of Gen.General
Hawly Hawlays perceiving a body of the Highlanders
in the Torwood Tor wood
Margin notes:
*1 Jmd
*2 Ld. G
Sc. Ma
zne.
Comments
The unsatisfactory first paragraph crossed out in the journal
has been omitted in the Lockhart version. The Journal author
rewrote the paragraph. Lockhart paraphrases the replacement
paragraph (possibly to clarify meaning) and compacts to cut
out repetition (vide Tor Wood) The two and a half miles from
the enemy appears as one and a half miles in the Lockhart
transcription.
|
|