[Sidenote: Feb., 1745/6]
The Duke having ordered Blyth’s Regiment[627]
with about Four hundred Men of different Corps
to be sent by sea from Leith to join the Army
in the North; Mr. Grosett by Direction of Lord
Justice Clarke of the 23rd February got proper
Transports prepared for that purpose, shipt the
necessary Provisions, and embarked the men,
and which was oblig’d to be done in the night
by sending them three Miles in Boats from the
Harbour to the Road of Leith to prevent the
Transports being neaped in the Harbour.
[Sidenote: No. 29]
Expended in this Service and sending the Horses
of the Regiment from Leith to Kinghorn by water,
they being ordered to go from thence by Land to
the Army 8 8 0
[Sidenote: March, 1745/6]
The Transports being put back after they had
sailed, and got near their Port and being
detained by contrary Winds in the Road of
Leith Mr. Grosett got them supply’d by order of
Lord Justice Clarke with additional Stores of
Provisions and Boats for bringing on shore such
of the recovered Men of the different Corps as
had fallen Ill by their confinement.
[Sidenote: No. 30]