P. 456. The account in 'The History of the Feuds' is taken from Sir Robert Gordon's History of Sutherland, p. 217.
Jamieson, writing to Scott, in November, 1804, says: "I have heard a scrap of the rude ballad on the burning of Achindoun, 'Bonny Willie Mackintosh You've tint a feather frae your cap By the day dawing,' etc., or something of this kind, from the Revd John Grant of Elgin. The Duchess of Gordon applied to him about it some years ago, but he could never recover it." (Letters addressed to Sir W. Scott, I, No 117, Abbotsford.)
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