Note 320 — Chapter XIV · (continued 2)

Carte, vol. iv. p. 538. The author of Britane’s Distemper (p. 139) says that Montrose ordered every man to put a white shirt above his clothes. It is, however, highly probable that the narrative in the text is substantially true. Wishart (Montrose Redivivus, p. 96,) says they were ordered to throw off their doublets and “affront the enemy all in white, being naked unto the waist all but their shirts.”