He wrote a mock challenge to the Duke, which he circulated among his friends to amuse them over a bottle.

The reader will find this document in the Appendix.* It is written in a good hand, and not particularly deficient in grammar or spelling.
* Appendix, No.

III.
Our Southern readers must be given to understand that it was a piece of humour,--a _quiz,_ in short,--on the part of the Outlaw, who was too sagacious to propose such a rencontre in reality.

This letter was written in the year 1719.
In the following year Rob Roy composed another epistle, very little to his own reputation, as he therein confesses having played booty during the civil war of 1715.

It is addressed to General Wade, at that time engaged in disarming the Highland clans, and making military roads through the country.