. The chiefs of Grant. Memoirs (Correspondence. - Charters.) [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . p. 1663.] THE TROT OF TURRIFF. 247 its full strength. By a night march he succeeded in reaching Turriff, justas the dawn was breaking on the 14th of the month, and immediately sethis forces in array for battle. The Covenanters, hastily aroused, did thesame, but unable to stand before the fire of Aboynes men, they turnedand fled; and this, the first exchange of arms between the contendingparties, obtained the derisive title of the Trot of Turriff. J Aboyne t
. The chiefs of Grant. Memoirs (Correspondence. - Charters.) [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . p. 1663.] THE TROT OF TURRIFF. 247 its full strength. By a night march he succeeded in reaching Turriff, justas the dawn was breaking on the 14th of the month, and immediately sethis forces in array for battle. The Covenanters, hastily aroused, did thesame, but unable to stand before the fire of Aboynes men, they turnedand fled; and this, the first exchange of arms between the contendingparties, obtained the derisive title of the Trot of Turriff. J Aboyne tookseveral prisoners, but did not follow up his success further than by plunderingseveral of the Covenanting lairds houses, and occupying Aberdeen. The Laird of Freuchie was not present, and had no share in thisengagement, but it threw the Covenanting lairds generally into some con-sternation, not knowing what steps Aboyne might take next. In his of Rose of Kilravock, Shaw says that on the 14th of May, after theTrot of Turriff, four thousand men met at Elgin under the Earl of Seaforth,the Master of Lovat, the Master of Reay,
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