Kings MS 227

'MEMOIRS touching the Scotsh War caryed on for their Majesties [William and Mary] by Lieutenant General [Hugh] Mackay against [John Graham,] the Viscount Dundee and after him [Alexander Cannon, al.] Cannan and at last Major General [Thomas] Buchan for the late King James': memoirs of the campaigns of 1689-1690, written (in the third person) by Lieut.- Gen. Mackay, left incomplete at his death (at the battle of Steinkirk, 24 July, 1692) and supplemented by fragments found among his papers. Printed from a MS. in the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh for the Bannatyne Club, 1833. There are some slight differences, the narrative being given continuously down to Sir Thomas Livingstone's victory at Cromdale, 1 May, 1690, though that episode is really a detached fragment (pp. 89-97 of the ed.). Then follows the note (f. 93 b), 'The author of this (sic) memories dyed before he had time to compleat them, and came no further. I have here added the heads of the progress against the rebels in Scotland in the year 1690.' These heads are put into the third person and not left in the first as in the ed., and at the end (f. 99 b) is the note, 'This goes no further. The most part of the relations of Scotland, being writ by the author in severall papers, are very confused, and all that follows is but fragments. The author has also among his papers copies of all the instructions and letters the general sent to the King, the Earl of Portland, and Melvil, and their answers, which gives great light into the Scots affairs at that time.' The remaining fragments are all (though in a different order) as in the edition, except (ff. 109 b-113b) 'Some other remarks upon the Scotch affaires' (beg. 'That it is no matter of admiration'), a few sentences at the end (f. 121, foot p. 109 of the ed.), and a final note by the compiler, beg. 'All these memorialls were written by the author's own hand', &c. For another work by Mackay see below, King'S 245, 246.

Paper; ff. 121. Folio. 1243 in. x 8 in. XVII I cent. Half-bound in red morocco, marbled sides.