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 the day of the said battle, Edinchip was denominated of the place.

In the longeris of the above delineation, that a rapacious crowd of people arrived from north to the vicinity, to take away the inhabitants cattle there, would be in sight to their cruel eyes, according to ancient predication of old men; the said ravished crowd was convicted or discovered ton a brae-face near Killin, called Scronachlachan; of which the inhabitants obtained the unacceptable tiding, that the sudden perplexity seized their minds in uproar of the highest bustle, confusion, and tumult, at their assembling to resist the ravishers. A gallant gentleman resided at Glenlarig, near Killin at that time, whose surname was Menzie, had a nickname, Major Roy of the Hens; a valiant hand, stout, personally puissant. He projected a plan to them for the detriment of the ravishers, which he incited to adopt,–that they should take quietly around the hill, on which its face the ravishers were discovered to descend rapidly on them as an aid to