FOOTNOTES

[1] Literature, July 30, 1898, p. 93.

[2] There is a brief sketch of the Earl in his brother’s Memoirs (Spalding Club), which cites d’Alembert, and puts the Earl’s birth in 1687.

[3] Plaids worn by the Earl and his brother are preserved in a house in Fifeshire.

[4] This remark makes it probable that the Earl was really a young man. If born in 1693, as some thought, he would be twenty-three in 1716. (As, indeed, one of d’Alembert’s authorities says that he was.) If a year or two older, he could scarcely have pleaded youth as a reason for silence.

[5] Mar to ‘H. S.’ From France, February 10, 1716.

[6] Mr. Eliot Hodgkin’s MSS., Hist. MSS. Com. xv. ii. Appendix, p. 230.

[7] Add. MSS. 33,950. 1718-1719. British Museum.

[8] There are copies of his correspondence with the would-be murderer in the Gualterio MSS., British Museum.

[9] The author hopes to tell the story of Mr. Wogan, a charming character, on another occasion.

[10] Hist. MSS. Commission, x. i. Appendix, p. 475.

[11] Letter from Musell Stosch to d’Alembert, Œuvres, v. 457.

[12] Hist. MSS. Commission, x. i. Appendix, p. 184.

[13] Hist. MSS. Commission, x. i. Appendix, p. 452.

[14] The Earl’s letter is in Browne, ii. 448, from the Stuart Papers.

[15] The Rev. George Kelly was a constraint on the old Duke’s amours with Madame de Vaucluse!

[16] Papers from French Foreign Office. In Murray of Broughton’s Memorials, pp. 499-501.

[17] Charles to James, May 11, 1744. Stuart Papers in Murray of Broughton’s Memorials, p. 368.

[18] Stuart Papers. Browne, ii. 476.

[19] Compare Villettes’ letter, postea, [p. 48].

[20] Stuart Papers, in Murray of Broughton’s Memorials, pp. 513-514.

[21] James to the Duke of York. November 8, 1745. Browne, iii. 452, where all the correspondence is printed.

[22] The Memoirs of the exile in question, unhappily, have never been printed, and I do not feel at liberty to anticipate any points of interest in these curious papers.

[23] Letters in Browne, iv. 64-66. Conceivably it was Goring who prejudiced the Earl against Kelly; he may have conveyed the ideas of Carte and the English party.

[24] See Sir Charles’s letter of February 6, 1751, in Pickle the Spy, p. 117.

[25] These letters are from the printed Correspondence of Frederick.

[26] Ewald, Charles Edward, ii. 223.

[27] The story was believed, however, by a contemporary who knew the Earl well.

[28] Mr. Bisset has printed these letters from the originals in the Add. MSS. British Museum.

[29] Fidei Defensor.

[30] From the correspondence of Hume. MSS. in the collection of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

[31] Hill Burton’s Hume, ii. 464-6.

[32] See ‘[Mlle. Luci],’ later.

[33] In the papers of Ramsay of Ochtertyre occurs perhaps the only unkind reference to the Earl. Ramsay reports that, being told about the destitution of the child of his nurse (who had sold her cow and sent him the money in 1719), he made no remark. A reference to [p. 66], supra, will show that silence followed by kind deeds was the Earl’s way when he heard a story of distress. Ramsay mentions that he sold his lands cheap when he finally left Scotland.

[34] Murray to a lady. Quoted in Genuine Memoirs of John Murray, Esq. (London: 1747), p. 9.

[35] The diamond box has gone; the miniature, published by Mr. Fitzroy Bell, is in my possession.

[36] A Collection of Loyal Songs. Printed in the year 1750.

[37] Browne, ii. p. 476.

[38] Stuart Papers, in Murray of Broughton’s Memorials, pp. 392-395.

[39] Chronicles of the Atholl and Tullibardine Families, iii. pp 8, 17. (Privately printed: edited by the Duke of Atholl.)

[40] Charles was nursed at Thunderton House, by Mrs. Anderson (née Dunbar) of Arradoul. In some mysterious way Charles was able to secure for Mrs. Anderson’s son an appointment under the English Government. So says a tradition preserved by Miss Janet Lang, a great-great-granddaughter of Mrs. Anderson.

[41] See ‘[Cluny’s Treasure],’ postea. A writer in the Athenæum (July 9, 1898) appears to think (as was thought at the time) that Murray now intended to turn informer, and keep what he could of the French gold. This is not my impression.

[42] See ‘[A Gentleman of Knoydart],’ postea.

[43] Lord Justice Clerk to Newcastle, July 10, 1746. Murray’s Memorials, p. 418.

[44] The Highlands in 1750. Blackwood, 1898.

[45] Leslie. Paris, May 27, 1752. Browne, iv. 101.

[46] See ‘Account of Charge’ in Chambers’s Rebellion, p. 522; and, later, ‘Cluny’s Treasure.’

[47] Stuart Papers. Browne, iv. 59. Mr. Fitzroy Bell does not remark on all this evidence.

[48] Unable, at first, to learn even the real name of Mlle. Luci, I appealed, in despair, to a lady who occasionally sees ‘visions’ in crystals. ‘What can you see of Mlle. Luci?’ I asked, by letter, giving no hint of any kind as to the lady’s date or connections. The seeress replied that, in an ink-bottle on her writing-desk, she saw a girl of about twenty-eight, dark, handsome, rather like Madame Patti in youth. Her dress was that of the middle of the eighteenth century. On her shoulder was laid another lady’s hand, a long, delicate, white hand, with a ‘marquise’ diamond ring. ‘La Grande Main,’ I exclaimed, ‘the hand of La Grande Main!’—whom we later discovered to be Madame de Vassé.

The coincidence was certainly pretty, but, unless a portrait of Mlle. Ferrand can be discovered, we must remain ignorant as to whether she was correctly represented in the ink-picture; whether a true refraction shone up from the dead past, the afterglow of a romance.

[49] Burt’s Letters, ii. p. 334.

[50] MSS. in the Cluny Charter Chest. Privately printed, 1879, p. 16.

[51] Waverley, i. p. 161 (1829).

[52] London: 1754.

[53] This is confirmed by the Gartmore MS. in Burt; by MS. 104, in the King’s Collection; and by Murray of Broughton, in his paper on the Clans.

[54] Published (1898) as The Highlands in 1750 (Blackwood).

[55] He is a Lowlander, and avers that Scotland rarely lost a battle except when the Highlanders were engaged, as at Flodden.

[56] Sutherland Book, ii. 256.

[57] MS. 104 says that they went out most reluctantly.

[58] The Impartial Hand.

[59] These letters are in the Cumberland MSS. at Windsor Castle.

[60] MS. 104. King’s Library.

[61] See Mr. Mackenzie’s History of the Camerons, pp. 233-244, where the documents are given.

[62] History of the Camerons, p. 236.

[63] Sheridan can scarcely have been Charles’s adviser at this time. It may have been O’Sullivan.

[64] Pickle, p. 160. I at first conjectured that this letter might refer to Pickle himself, but Barisdale, who was in touch with Cumberland in 1746, just after Culloden, is more probably the person hinted at.

[65] This does not look as if the Duke alluded to him in the letter of August 9, where he talks of the price of information.

[66] Cumberland MSS. See ‘[A Gentleman of Knoydart],’ postea.

[67] Antiquarian Notes, pp. 152, 153.

[68] Lyon in Mourning, i. 147.

[69] Culloden Papers, pp. 290-292.

[70] Cumberland MSS.

[71] Memorials of Murray of Broughton, p. 270, et seq.

[72] Chambers’s Rebellion of 1745. Appendix. But compare Memorials, p. 286, where Murray represents himself as poor, though he had the 5,000 louis, unless he had sent them on in front.

[73] Scots Magazine, July 1753, p. 362.

[74] Ibid., 1750, p. 254.

[75] This is accurate. The note exists to this day.

[76] This was by the Prince’s desire.

[77] Scots Papers. Record Office.

[78] See p. 141, note 2.

[79] Letters between the Major and the Prince are published in Pickle the Spy.

[80] Glengarry to Edgar, Jan. 16, 1750. Browne, iv. p. 66.

[81] Browne, iv. p. 79.

[82] Jacobite Lairds of Gask, p. 276.

[83] Nov. 21, 1753. Browne, iv. 117.

[84] Scots Affairs. Record Office.

[85] The husband of the lady who pistoled the English Captain after 1715.

[86] State Papers, Scotland, 1753.

[87] S.P.S. Bundle 44, No. 28-29.

[88] It is plain that the account given on [p. 144], and said by the Informer to be ‘in Clunie’s writing,’ is absolutely wrong, cannot be by Cluny, and is meant to incriminate that chief. Not only are the 6,000 louis carried to Charles by Kennedy omitted, but the ‘treasure’ intercepted by Downan and Glenevis does not appear, while 2,000 of the 27,000 louis are left out of the reckoning. ‘The State of Clunie McPherson’s Intromissions,’ in short, is a fraudulent document. It bears traces of confused manipulation in various interests.

[89] Lyon in Mourning, i. 310. Antiquarian Notes, by C. Fraser Mackintosh, p. 225.

[90] Lyon in Mourning, i. 147.

[91] Lyon, i. 309-10.

[92] Nether Lochaber, pp. 188, 189.

[93] Now Fort William.

[94] This Mr. Douglas gets a very bad character from John Macdonnell, of the Scotus family, in his Memoirs.

[95] Dungallon had only been released from Edinburgh Castle in October 1749.

[96] This includes the money got by Glengarry in Edinburgh, out of Murray’s original 5,000 louis, entrusted to his brother-in-law, Mr. Macdougal. Compare Murray’s Memorials, p. 304, where he denies that Mrs. Murray brought any large sum from the Highlands. The reverse is stated by Ramsay of Ochtertyre, and it is plain that, by Mrs. Murray’s means, or otherwise, a large sum was conveyed by Murray to Edinburgh.

[97] See Mr. Stevenson’s Kidnapped and Catriona and the printed Trial for the Appin Murder.

[98] Add. MSS. 32,995, 6, 33.

[99] December 1752. Pickle, p. 176.

[100] State Papers, MS., April 15, 1751.

[101] Cumberland Papers.

[102] Scots Magazine, July 1753, p. 362.

[103] June 18, 1754, State Papers.

[104] Scots Magazine, June 1754. The details of Fassifern’s imprisonment and condemnation are taken from the Scots Magazine of 1753-1754.

[105] No. 48 S. P. S. From Churchill to Newcastle, Nov. 19, 1751. The story of the ghostly evidence in Sergeant Davies’s case will be found in the author’s Book of Dreams and Ghosts.

[106] Written before 1810, the Memoirs are published in the Canadian Magazine of 1828. Mr. McLennan has founded on these papers his excellent romance, Spanish John.

[107] Hunts-foot (sic), i.e. leg of a dog, a term of reproach with the Germans.

[108] Lally’s adventures were romantic, and are only touched on by M. Humont in his Lally Tollendal, pp. 32-5.

[109] Mackenzie’s History of the Camerons; see documents on pp. 233-44.

[110] Murray of Broughton in Chambers’s Rebellion of 1745; edition of 1869, p. 515.

[111] Letter-Book of Alastair Ruadh, MS.

[112] William, fourth son of Donald the fifth of Kilcoy. He married Jean, daughter of Mackenzie of Davochmaluag, and died without issue. History of the Mackenzies, p. 585.

[113] Antiquarian Notes, by C. Fraser Mackintosh, p. 156.

[114] Laing MSS., Edinburgh University Library.

[115] Pickle, p. 282.

[116] February 19, 1760, Pickle, p. 312: also p. 266, April 8, 1754: ‘Since the loss of my worthy great friend [Henry Pelham] on whose word I wholly relay’d, everything comes far short of my expectations.’

[117] Antiquarian Notes, p. 123.

[118] Pickle, pp. 312-314.

[119] Antiquarian Notes, pp. 120, 121.

[120] The tradition of Glengarry’s treachery has reached me both from Scotland and America, under dread secrecy!

[121] In 1749 a Mr. Bruce was appointed to survey the forfeited and unforfeited estates of the Highlands, including Glengarry’s. Pickle speaks of employing ‘Cromwell’ (Bruce) to draw up for him a judicial rent roll. The two Bruces, the surveyor and the Court Trusty, are obviously the same man, and he is probably the writer of the tract, The Highlands in 1750. (MS. 104. King’s Library.)

[122] It is needless to consider the theory that Pickle was James Mohr Macgregor, who died in 1754.

[123] Burt, i. 265-267.

[124] Murray of Broughton’s Memorials, p. 107. James’s letter to Louis XV., p. 508.

[125] Charles knew of Murray’s ‘rascality’ by April 10, 1747. Letter of the Prince to James. Stuart Papers, Memorials, p. 398.

[126] Lyon in Mourning, iii. 119. The anecdote is also given by Robert Chambers in Jacobite Memorials.

[127] This letter was published, from my transcript, by Mr. A. H. Millar, in the Scottish Review for April 1897.

[128] Stuart Papers. Browne, iv. 100, iv. 22, 23, 51.

[129] Browne, iv. 98-102.

[130] Ibid. iv. 118.

[131] Ibid. iv. 64.

[132] Newton to Waters, March 18, 1750, Pickle, p. 93; Lord Elcho’s Diary; Glengarry to Prince Charles, admitting the fact, 1751; Browne, iv. 79; ‘[Cluny’s Treasure],’ supra.

[133] Browne, iv. 66.

[134] Pickle, p. 161.

[135] Stuart Papers, Windsor Castle.

[136] Pickle, p. 162.

[137] Pickle, p. 180.

[138] Jesse’s Pretenders, Appendix.

[139] Pickle, pp. 170-175.

[140] Pickle, pp. 191-194.

[141] Ibid. p. 190.

[142] MSS. 33,050; f. A25.

[143] Pickle, p. 210.

[144] Pickle, p. 219.

[145] State Papers, Scotland, Bundle 44, No. 67.

[146] Glengarry’s Letter Book, MS., [p. 207], supra.

[147] Add MSS. 32,955, f. 38.

[148] Highlanders, ii. xvi. Appendix.

[149] Scottish Review, April, 1897, p. 223.

[150] Pickle, p. 283.

[151] Ibid. p. 284.

[152] See [Appendix].

[153] December 13, 1754. Pickle, p. 285.

[154] This letter, with a draft of Glengarry’s reply, written on the back, is in the possession of General Macdonald, the owner of Glengarry’s Letter Book.

[155] Pickle, pp. 288-289.

[156] Add. MSS. 32,804, f. 137.

[157] Pickle, pp. 290-291.

[158] Ibid. pp. 312-314.

[159] Letters from the Highlands, ii. 70 (1818).

[160] Glengarry’s Letter Book, MS. (1758-9).

[161] A Journey through part of England and Scotland, Along with the Army, &c. By a Volunteer. Osborne, London: 1747, p. 176.

[162] Lord Selkirk, State of the Highlands, p. 42 (1805).

[163] Glengarry’s Letter Book, MS.

[164] November-December, 1754. Pickle, p. 285.

[165] Antiquarian Notes, pp. 120-134.

[166] Pickle, p. 217.

[167] Northern Memoirs. This author does not speak of drinking the blood of the living cow. See op. cit. p. 209, and note, p. 372. This correction applies to p. 283.

[168] Burt, ii. p. 31.

[169] Ibid. p. 26.

[170] Glengarry’s Letter Book, MS.

[171] Scotland as it was and as it is, p. 245.

[172] Burt, ii. 51.

[173] The Gartmore MS. is denounced as full of ignorant Lowland prejudice, by General Stewart of Garth.

[174] Burt, Appendix, ii. 357.

[175] We have another statement by Culloden: ‘From Perth to Inverness, and thence to the Western Sea, including the Western Islands, ... no part is in any degree cultivated, except some spots here and there in straths or glens, by the sides of rivers, brooks, or lakes, and on the sea-coast. The grounds that are cultivated yield small quantities of mean corns not sufficient to feed the inhabitants, who depend for their nourishment on milk, butter, cheese, &c., the product of their cattle.... Their habitations are the most miserable huts that ever were seen.’ Culloden Papers, p. 298.

[176] This is the house near Musselburgh, which the wicked Colonel Charteris lent to Culloden, who had defended him from a charge of rape. In one room (when I was a boy) you saw in the centre a great black blotch, and black marks as of footsteps tiptoeing out to the door. A gruesome room!

[177] Cumberland Papers, 1753.

[178] Antiquarian Notes, p. 207.

[179] Antiquarian Notes; compare pp. 126 and 207.

[180] Here is a formal rent from Burt (ii. 56):—

Donald Mac Oil vic ille Challum.

Other tenants paid in shares the rest of the sheep. Then there would be ‘services,’ engaging Donald’s time and labour.

[181] ‘Cluny, May 10, 1724.’ Stuart Papers, p. 113, Appendix, pp. 100-105.

[182] James to the Duke of Gordon, August 27, 1724.

[183] British Museum. The King’s Library, 104.

[184] Scots Magazine, 1753, p. 498.

[185] Burt, ii. 5, 6.

[186] MS. 104.

[187] Sketches, 1822.

[188] Ibid. i. 40.

[189] Op. cit. i. 84, 85.

[190] Burt, ii. 107.

[191] Sketches, i. 185, note.

[192] Antiquarian Notes, p. 284.

[193] Sketches, i. 150.

[194] Ibid. ii. Appendix, xliv.

[195] Sketches, i. 139.

[196] See also the Introduction to The Legend of Montrose.

[197] Cumberland Papers, 1753.

[198] January 16, 1747.

[199] Browne, iii. p. 477.

[200] March 26, 1740. Gleanings from Cluny Charter Chest, p. 4.

[201] Henry Pelham’s.

[202] One Bruce did survey the Forfeited Estates and others.

[203] At Edinburgh, Sept. 1, died Old Glengarry.

[204] On account of Old Glengarry’s death.

[205] Dunvegan, August 3, 1745. Culloden Papers, p. 204.

[206] History of the Macleods. By Alexander Mackenzie, F.S.A., p. 129. Inverness, 1889.

[207] Ibid. p. 133.

[208] Ibid. p. 149.

[209] Mackenzie, pp. 150, 151.