983.

Wishart, cap.

7.
But by this second advantage he obtained not the end which he expected.
The envious nature of Huntley, jealous of Montrose's glory, rendered him averse to join an army where he himself must be so much eclipsed by the superior merit of the general.

Argyle, reenforced by the earl of Lothian, was behind him with a great army: the militia of the northern counties, Murray, Ross, Caithness, to the number of five thousand men, opposed him in front, and guarded the banks of the Spey, a deep and rapid river.

In order to elude these numerous armies, he turned aside into the hills, and saved his weak but active troops in Badenoch.
After some marches and countermarches, Argyle came up with him at Faivy Castle.