FOOTNOTES:
[1] Dalrymple.
[2] Rapin. Dissertation on the Origin and Government of England, vol. xiv. p. 423.
[3] See Introduction to the Memoirs of Cameron of Lochiel, p. 22.
[4] Lockhart, vol. i. p. 239.
[5] Lockhart, vol. i. p. 324.
[6] Reay, p. 187.
[7] See Wood's Peerage of Scotland.
[8] Histories of Noble British Families by Henry Drummond, Esq. Preface to Part I.
[9] Robertson's History of Scotland, ii. 32.
[10] Wood's Peerage. The year of his birth is not stated.
[11] Cunningham's History of Great Britain, i. 326.
[12] Dalrymple's Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 100.
[13] Chambers's Biography, art. Erskine.
[14] See Dr. Coxe's MSS. in the British Museum, vol. iii.
[15] Dalrymple's Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 98.
[16] Lockhart's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 114.
[17] Lockhart, vol. i. p. 45.
[18] Granger, vol. ii. p. 31. Somerville's Queen Anne, p. 184.
[19] Of Alloa the following account is given. "Alloa House, situated in the immediate neighbourhood of the town, in the midst of a fine park, the seat of the Earl of Mar, and the subject of a fine Scottish song, is a place worthy of visit. The principal part of the building was destroyed some years ago by fire, and with it the only certain original portrait of Queen Mary existing in the kingdom. The original tower, a building of the thirteenth century, the walls of which are eleven feet thick, and ninety feet high, alone remains. In it James the Sixth and his eldest son, Henry, were successively educated under the care of the Mar family. The cradle of the former, and his little nursery-chair, besides Prince Henry's golfs, were preserved in the tower till a recent period, when they fell into the possession of Lady Frances Erskine, daughter of the late venerable Earl of Mar, who, we understand, now preserves them, with the care and veneration due to such valuable heirlooms, in her house in Edinburgh. The country in every direction round Alloa is extremely level and beautiful, interspersed with numerous fine seats, and abounding in delightful little old-established bower-like villages. Among the latter we would particularize one called the Bridge of Allan as everything which a village ought to be—soft, sunny, and warm—a confusion of straw-roofed cottages, and rich massy trees; possessed of a bridge and a mill, together with kail-yards, bee-skeps, colleys, callants, old inns with entertainment for man and horse, carts with their poles pointing up to the sky, venerable dames in drugget knitting their stockings in the sun, and young ones in gingham and dimity tripping along with milk-pails on their heads.
"Besides all these characteristics as a village, the Bridge of Allan boasts of a row of neat little villas for the temporary accommodation of a number of fashionables who flock to it in the summer, on account of a neighbouring mineral well."—Chambers's Picture of Scotland.
[20] Wood's Peerage.
[21] Somerville's Queen Anne, p. 167.
[22] Somerville, p. 177. Memoirs of Scotland, London, 1714. Defoe's History of the Union, p. 64.
[23] Lockhart Papers, vol. i. p. 114.
[24] Lockhart.
[25] Lockhart, p. 116.
[26] Daniel De Foe on the Union, p. 64.
[27] De Foe, p. 322.
[28] Lockhart. Letter to one English Lord concerning the Treaty, 1702, vol. i. p. 272.
[29] Memoirs, p. 74. De Foe, p. 321.
[30] Memoirs, p. 74. De Foe, p. 371.
[31] Introduction to De Foe's History of the Union, p. 16.
[32] Memoirs of Scotland, p. 31.
[33] Mackay.
[34] Lockhart Papers, vol. i. p. 54.
[35] Memoirs of North Britain, p. 113.
[36] Wood's Peerage, vol. i. pp. 714, 717; also Mackay's Memoirs, p. 178.
[37] Lockhart Papers, vol. i. p. 115.
[38] Wood's Peerage, art. Erskine of Mar.
[39] Memoirs of Scotland, p. 224.
[40] Memoirs of Scotland, p. 340.
[41] Cunningham's Hist. Great Britain, p. 257.
[42] Ibid. p. 61.
[43] Swift's Works, edited by Sir W. Scott, pp. 14, 72.
[44] The motto on Queen Anne's coronation medal.
[45] Cunningham, p. 71.
[46] Memoirs of Scotland. Cunningham, p. 157.
[47] Swift's Letters, vol. ii. p. 488; also p. 487, note by Sir W. Scott.
[48] Wood's Peerage. Swift's Letters, p. 475. See note.
[49] Mackay's Characters, p. 94.
[50] Swift added, in his own hand, to this eulogium, this remark: "He was little better than a conceited talker in company."
[51] The following letter shows that the Duke anticipated the result of the duel.
London, Nov. 14, 1712.
My dear Son,
I have been doing all I could to recover your mother's right to her estate, which I hope shall be yours. I command you to be dutiful towards her, as I hope she will be just and kind to you; and I recommend it particularly to you, if ever you enjoy the estate of Hamilton, and what may, I hope, justly belong to you, (considering how long I have lived with a small competence, which has made me run in debt,) I hope God will put it into your head to do justice to my honour, and pay my just debts. There will be enough to satisfy all, and give your brothers and sisters such provisions as the state of your condition and their quality in Scotland will admit of.
I pray God preserve you, and the family in your person. My humble duty to my mother, and my blessing to your sisters. If it please God I live, you shall find me share with you what I do possess, and ever prove your affectionate and kind father, whilst
Hamilton.
I again upon my blessing charge you, that you let the world see you do your part in satisfying my just debts.
Addressed thus: "To my dear Son the Marquis of Chilsdale."
Memoirs of the Life and Family of James Duke of Hamilton.
[52] The Lady Elizabeth Gerrard, the sister of Lady Mohun, and Duchess of Hamilton, is said to have been "a lady of great wit and beauty, and all the fine accomplishments that adorn her sex." Through her the great estates in Lancashire and Staffordshire came into the family of Hamilton.
[53] Wood's Peerage; also "Life of the Duke of Hamilton," a scarce tract, p. 102.
[54] Coxe MSS. 9128. Plut. cxxxviii. H. British Museum.
[55] Ibid. See a Letter in French, dated April 5, 1714, p. 1.
[56] Coxe MSS.
[57] Lord Mahon's Hist. England, vol. i. p. 139. See also a scarce little book to be met with in the Advocate's Library in Edinburgh (Atterbury's Correspondence, with marginal notes by Lord Hailes): "By what accident these Letters have been preserved," says the noble Editor, "I know not: by what means they are now brought to light, I am not at liberty to explain."
[58] See the Letter before quoted.
[59] Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 440.
[60] Lockhart of Carnwath, vol. i. p. 446; also "Notices of Lady Grange," by Dr. Mackay.
[61] See "Notices of Lady Grange," by K. Mackay, M.D., 3rd edition. Glasgow, 1819.
[62] Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 441.
[63] Lord Mahon, vol. i. p. 152.
[64] "A Collection of Original Letters relating to the Rebellion of 1715." Edinburgh, 1730.
[65] Introductory Anecdotes to Lord Wharncliffe's Edition of Lady M. Wortley's Letters, p. 26.
[66] Reay, p. 135.
[67] Reay, p. 152.
[68] Reay, p. 171.
[69] This commission was long doubted, and was even denied by the Chevalier. It is, nevertheless, signed by his Secretary, and is among the valuable papers which, belonging to Mr. Gibson Craig of Edinburgh, have been liberally placed at the service of the author.
[70] Caledonian Mercury, 1722.
[71] Lord Mahon, p. 147.
[72] Lord Mahon; from the Master of Sinclair's MS.
[73] Burke's Peerage.
[74] Buchan's History of the Keith Family.
[75] Buchan's History of the Keith Family; also Scottish Peerage.
[76] See Patten's List of Chieftains.
[77] Secret History of Colonel Hooke's Negotiations, pp. 26, 110.
[78] Patten, p. 232.
[79] Buchan's History of the Keith Family, p. 153.
[80] Colonel Hooke's Negotiations.
[81] See "Genealogie of the Most Noble and Ancient House of Drummond, by the First Viscount Strathallan," Appendix. For this curious and elaborate work I am indebted to the Rev. Arthur Drummond.
[82] MS. Account of Several Clans, by Mrs. Grant, of Laggan.
[83] Brown's Highlands, vol. i. p. 131.
[84] The Rev. Robert Patten, from whose animated narrative many other writers have implicitly copied, was a man of indifferent character, who accompanied Mr. Forster, in the insurrection in Northumberland, as his chaplain. He afterwards turned king's evidence, and appeared against those whom he had served. For this act of treachery his pension was raised (as I find by the Caledonian Mercury for 1722) from 50l. to 80l. a-year. He dedicates his History of the Rebellion to Generals Carpenter and Wills.
[85] Patten, p. 151.
[86] Mar Papers.
[87] Reay, p. 191.
[88] Reay, p. 191.
[89] It seems to have been the custom of that period to write in the third person when in memoirs and statements. Lord Lovat's manifesto is in the same style.
[90] Patten, p. 257.
[91] A copy from the original, for which I am indebted to Mr. Gibson Craig, is given for the confirmation of Lord Mar's assertion:—
"James the Eighth, by the grace of God King of Scotland, England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., to our right trusty and well-beloved Cousin and Counsellor, John Earl of Mar, &c. We reposing especial trust & confidence in your loyalty, courage, experience, and good conduct, doe by these * * constitute and appoint you to be our General and Commander in Cheif of all our forces, both by sea and land, in our antient kingdom of Scotland. Whereupon you are to take upon you the said command of General and Commander in Cheif, and the better to support you in the said authority, our will and pleasure is, that you act in consert with and by our * * * * We doe likeways hereby empower you to grant commissions in our name to all officers, both by sea and land, to place and displace the same as you shall think fitt and necessary for our service, to assemble our said forces, raise the militia, issue out orders for all suspected persons, and seizing of all forts and castles, and putting garrisons into them, and to take up in any part of our dominions, what money, horses, arms, and ammunition and provisions you shall think necessary for arming, mounting, and subsisting the said forces under your command, and to give recepts for the same, which we hereby promise to pay. By this our Commission, we likeways here empower you to make warr upon our enemies, and upon all such as shall adhere to the present government and usurper of our dominions. Leaving entirely to your prudence and conduct to begin the necessary acts of hostility when and where you think most advantageous conducing to our restoration; and we doe hereby command all, and require all officers and souldiers, both by sea and land, and all our subjects, to acknowledge and obey you as our General and Commander as Cheif of our army; and you to obey such furder orders and directions as you shall from time to time receive from us. In pursuance of the great power and trust we have reposed in you.
"Given at our Court at Bar le duc, the seventh day of September, 1715, and in the fourteenth year of our reign.
"By His Majestie's command,
Sic Subscribitur,
Thomas Higgins."
[92] Patten, p. 256.
[93] Note in Reay. From the Weekly Journal, Feb. 4th, 1715-16.
[94] Reay, p. 193.
[95] Brown's Highlands, vol. i. p. 129.
[96] Mar Papers. In these there is a copy of this Manifesto; but since it has been printed in Reay's History of the Rebellion, and others, I do not think it necessary to insert it here.
[97] The Chevalier's agent there.
[98] The orthography of this letter is copied from the original, with the exception of the abbreviations usual at that period.
[99] Erskine.
[100] Reay, p. 221.
[101] Mar Papers.
[102] Mar Papers, communicated by Mr. Gibson Craig.
[103] Reay, pp. 236, 237.
[104] The Earl of Mar's Journal, as printed at Paris. At the end of Patten's History of the Rebellion, and addressed by Lord Mar to Colonel Balfour, p. 259.
[105] Reay, p. 197.
[106] Earl of Mar's Journal.
[107] Earl of Mar's Journal.
[108] Reay, p. 308.
[109] Brown's Highlands.
[110] Mar Papers.
[111] Reay, p. 309.
[112] From the MS. letter in the possession of Archibald Macdonald, Esq.
[113] The agent of the Jacobites in Edinburgh.
[114] Mar Papers, in the possession of Gibson Craig, Esq.
[115] King.
[116] Duke of Ormond.
[117] Paris.
[118] Lady Nairn.
[119] The Chevalier.
[120] The Dutch auxiliaries, to the amount of 6000, demanded by the English government, as accorded by treaty, arrived, to the number of 3000, in the Thames, on the 16th of November, expressly to assist in suppressing the rebellion, and proceeded to Scotland on the 25th. They were afterwards followed by 3000 more, who, being obliged to put in at Harwich, marched on by land. Reay, p. 327.
[121] The King.
[122] Lord Grange.
[123] The following note is annexed to this letter. It is in the hand-writing of Bishop Keith:—"Son of Sir Wm. Douglass, colonel of a regiment, and who had come over with the Prince of Orange to England, and was made Knight and Colonel by the said Prince, as says my Lady Bruce. The story Wm. Erskine, brother to the Earl of Buchan, told me, as the King and he were travelling through France at this period, they saw the Chevalier's picture set up in some of the post-houses, and they were told this was done by the desire of the English Ambassador, who had promised a reward to those who should stop and apprehend the person whom the picture resembled."
[124] A concealment in the House of Kineil, near Borrostowness.
[125] The younger brother of the Marquis of Tullibardine, but assuming the forfeited title as head of the house.
[126] Henry Straiton.
[127] I have had the advantage of seeing an original crayon portrait of the Chevalier, in the possession of Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq., of Edinburgh; also, a miniature painted at Rome, belonging to Mr. Sharpe. In the miniature the eyes are darker, and have more animation than in the crayon drawing. The portrait lately placed at Hampton Court gives a much more pleasing impression of James Stuart than either of these likenesses: the countenance is animated and benevolent.
[128] "A True Account of the Proceedings at Perth," by a Rebel, supposed to be the Master of Sinclair.
[129] That portion of the letter only which refers to the Chevalier appears to have been printed. I have given the entire letter from which the account was taken. A portion of this letter is published in Brown's History of the Highlands, vol. iv. p. 332.
[130] Reay, p. 352.
[131] MS. Letter in the possession of Alexander Macdonald, Esq., of the Register Office, Edinburgh.
[132] Mar Papers.
[133] Thomas Bruce, afterwards Earl of Kincardine.
[134] The loss of the ship from France.
[135] An allusion to the Marquis of Huntley and Lord Seaforth.
[136] Mar Papers.
[137] Reay, p. 364.
[138] Flying Post, or the Post Master, for January 28 and 31, 1716.
[139] Evening Post, Feb. 2, 1716.
[140] Auchterarder.
[141] Reay, p. 364.
[142] Mar Correspondence.
[143] Probably Wigton.
[144] Brown's Highlands, vol. iv. p. 337.
[145] Patten, p. 248.
[146] Reay, p. 367.
[147] Lord Mar's Journal.
[148] A copy is given of the Prince's letter in Dr. Brown's work on the Highlands, vol. iv. p. 340. It is a sort of expostulation with the Duke, but mildly and sensibly expressed. "I fear," he said, alluding to the British people, "they will find yet more than I the smart of preferring a foreign yoke to the obedience they owe me."
[149] Bolingbroke's Letter to Sir William Wyndham.
[150] Letter to Sir Wm. Wyndham, p. 139.
[151] Lockhart, vol. ii. p. 17.
[152] Ibid.
[153] Lockhart, vol. ii. p. 64.
[154] Coxe's Papers in the British Museum, MS. 9129. Plut. cxxxviii. II.
[155] I find that the biographers of Lord Mar, in the short lives given of him, (see Chambers's Scottish Biography, Georgian Era, &c.) have overlooked this correspondence. The letter from Sir Luke Schwaub, in French, with a translation, and the answer of Lord Carteret, in the Coxe Papers, although not exactly relevant to my subject, are interesting. "A thousands thanks," writes the generous Lord Carteret, in reply to Schwaub, "for your private letter, which affords me the means of obviating any calumny against the memory of a person who will always be dear to me." [That is, Lord Sunderland.] "I have shown it to the King, who is entirely satisfied with it." The anxiety on the part of Government to secure the papers of Lord Sunderland, was extreme, and affords a collateral proof of this connivance. The mysterious documents were seized by order of the King, and inspected by Lord Townshend, and not a trace of the correspondence was left when the papers were restored to the family. The seizure occasioned a suit between the executors of the Earl of Sunderland and the two Secretaries of State.—Coxe MSS.
[156] Hardwicke Papers, vol. ii. p. 252.
[157] Hardwicke Papers, vol. ii. p. 565.
[158] Hardwicke Papers, p. 586.
[159] Hardwicke Papers, vol. ii. p. 600.
[160] Chambers, art. Erskine.
[161] From original letters, for which I am indebted to Alexander Macdonald, Esq., of the Register Office, Edinburgh.
[162] The spelling is preserved as in the original.
[163] These words were written in the Chevalier's own hand.
[164] Letters in the possession of A. Macdonald, Esq.
[165] Bolingbroke.
[166] Lockhart Papers, vol. ii. p. 221.
[167] Lockhart Papers.
[168] See various papers in the State Paper Office. Collections for 1722.
[169] Lockhart, vol. ii. p. 149.
[170] Id. p. 183.
[171] Lockhart, vol. ii. p. 198.
[172] Mr. C. Kirkpatrick Sharpe was good enough to inform me that he had seen some letters on this subject, which exculpated Lady Mary W. Montague. The correspondence was destroyed, but it conveyed to the mind of that accomplished and erudite gentleman, who saw it, the impression that the charge against Lady Mary Wortley was groundless.
[173] I write it Radcliffe, because the most careful historians and genealogists have given the preference to that mode of spelling the name.
[174] The fact has been rather surmised than proved.
[175] Hutchinson's View of Northumberland, vol. i. p. 171.
[176] Lysons' Magna Britannia, vol. ii. p. 85.
[177] Burke's Extinct Peerage, art. Radcliffe; also Wood's Peerage, 309. It has been erroneously stated, that Francis Radclyffe himself, who married Mary Tudor, was first ennobled. It was his father, Sir Francis Radclyffe.
[178] Life of Charles Radcliffe. "By a gentleman of the family, to prevent the public being imposed upon by any erroneous or partial accounts to the prejudice of this unfortunate gentleman." London, 1746.
[179] Macpherson Papers, vol. ii.
[180] Patten's Hist. Rebellion, p. 47.
[181] In personal appearance the Earl is declared to have been distinguished for grace and comeliness. Neither the prints of this nobleman, nor an original picture in the possession of the Earl of Newburgh, at Hassop in Derbyshire, give the impression that the Earl was handsome. Yet he obtained the appellation of "handsome Derwentwater."
[182] Kimber's Baronetage, vol. i. p. 517.
[183] Encyclopædia Metropolitana.
[184] Id. Annals of George I.
[185] Patten, p. 3.
[186] The following is a copy of the warrant, and affords a specimen, which may be novel to some readers, of the form in which such affairs are couched. The original is still preserved by the present Earl of Newburgh, the descendant of Charles Radcliffe. I am indebted to the courtesy of the Earl of Newburgh for permission to copy this document, and also for several particulars concerning the family of Radcliffe, which I have interwoven with this biography:—
"James Stanhope, Esq., one of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, and Principal Secretary of State.
"These are in his Majesty's name, to authorise and require you, taking a constable to your assistance, forthwith to make strict and diligent search in such places as you shall have notice, for the Right Honourable James, Earl of Derwentwater; and him having found, you are to seize and apprehend for suspicion of Treason, and to bring him, together with his papers, before me to be examined concerning the Premisses, and to be further dealt with according to law: for the due execution whereof, all Mayors, Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, Constables, and all his Majesty's officers, Civil and Military, and loving subjects whom it may concern, are to be aiding and assisting to you as there shall be occasion. And for so doing, this shall be your warrant.
"Given at Whitehall the two-and-twentieth day of September, 1715.
"James Stanhope."
"To Richard Shorman, John Hutching, and John
Turner, three of his Majesty's Messengers
in Ordinary."
[187] His pension was raised for his services from fifty to eighty pounds per annum.—See Caledonian Mercury, 1722.
[188] Patten, p. 19.
[189] Hutchinson's History of Northumberland, vol. i. p. 131.
[190] State Papers. Domestic, No. 4, 1716.
[191] Life of Charles Radcliffe, p. 15.
[192] Patten, p. 31.
[193] Patten. Smollett.
[194] Parliamentary History, 2 Geo. I. vol. vii. p. 269.
[195] Patten, p. 47.
[196] Id. p. 65.
[197] An instance of this spirit is related by Lord Sunderland in the case of a Mr. Crisp, a Lancashire gentleman, who acted with such zeal for the Government during the Rebellion, that he was never able to live in his native country afterwards.—Lord Mahon's History of England since the Peace of Utrecht, vol. i. p. 253.
[198] Lord Mahon, vol. i. p. 248.
[199] Patten, p. 79.
[200] Letter from a Scots Prisoner.—See Weekly Journal, or British Gazette, for 1716.
[201] Weekly Journal, p. 354.
[202] Parliamentary History, p. 269.
[203] Life of Charles Radcliffe, p. 23.
[204] Patten.
[205] Patten, p. 96.
[206] Patten, p. 103.
[207] Weekly Journal.
[208] Patten.
[209] Patten.
[210] Caledonian Mercury for 1716.
[211] Earls of Derwentwater, Nithisdale, Carnwath, and Wintoun; Viscount Kenmure, and Lords Widdrington and Nairn.
[212] State Trials, vol. xv. p. 762.
[213] Parliamentary History, vol. vii. p. 269.
[214] State Trials.
[215] Caledonian Mercury for 1716.
[216] Beatson's Political Index.
[217] Douglas's Peerage of Scotland.
[218] State Trials, vol. xv. p. 802.
[219] Lord Mahon's History, vol. i. p. 291.
[220] Id.
[221] State Papers, 1716, No. 4; now, for the first time, printed.
[222] Or rather, a piece of red cloth, which is still preserved at Hassop, the seat of the Earl of Newburgh, the marks of blood being still visible.
[223] From a tradition current in the descendants of this family.
[224] Hogg's Jacobite Relics, vol. i. p. 31.
[225] See Caledonian Mercury, 1723.
[226] See Proceedings of the Court Martial held upon John, Master of Sinclair, with Correspondence, p. 27. 1828. Printed by Ballantyne and Company. Presented to the Roxburgh Club by Sir Walter Scott.
[227] It is printed in the interesting little collection before referred to, p. 35.
[228] Life of the Master of Sinclair, p. ix.
[229] His name is not among those who were assembled on the hunting-field of Braemar.
[230] Reay, p. 234.
[231] See Lord Mar's Life and Letters.
[232] Life of the Master of Sinclair, page v.
[233] See Lord Mar's Life, from the Mar Papers.
[234] Mar Papers.
[235] Reay's History of the Rebellion, p. 218.
[236] Reay, p. 387.
[237] See the certificate of the Justices of Forfar, in the State Paper Office, respecting the case of James Carnegie. Dated, Montrose, the first of October, 1716.
[238] See Papers in the State Paper Office for 1715 and 1716.
[239] Reay, p. 372.
[240] The title has remained in abeyance ever since. A mystery hangs over the fate of this family.
[241] See Letter.
[242] The letter from Lord Garlies, in which Lady Southesk is mentioned, is to be seen in the Murray MS. in the Advocate's Library at Edinburgh. It is addressed to the eccentric and imprudent Sir Alexander Murray of Stanhope. These papers were found on a floor of a room in Herriot's Hospital, and were rescued from destruction by Dr. Irvine of the Advocate's Library. After some remarks of no moment, Lord Garlies, afterwards the Earl of Galloway, observes—
"But now I hope that yours and all honest men's misfortunes are to have a turn, and since my cheif has had the good fortune to gett a young prince, I pray God his and all honest men's misfortunes may be at an end; and I hope before my young cheif dies, he shall have the name of Charles the Third. I beg of you to let me hear from you, and when I may expect to have the happinesse of seeing you in this countrey, which is what I both long mightily for, and expect as soon as you can conveniently. Besides, it will be a mighty obligation added to the many you have already done me, who am, dear Sandy,
"yours entirely whylst
"Garlies."
"May 12, 1730."
"Sister Southesque and my spouse make their compliments to you."
[243] Life of Master of Sinclair, page viii.
[244] The manuscript from which the life of the Master of Sinclair was taken, was found by Sir Walter Scott among the papers of his mother, who was distantly related to the family of Greenock. The proceedings of the court-martial were attested by the subscription of John Cunningham, probably a clerk of the court.
[245] The MS. Memoirs of the Master of Sinclair are at present in the possession of the Countess of Rosslyn.
[246] Burke's Peerage.
[247] I am indebted to a MS. account of Cameron of Lochiel for the most interesting facts in the following memoir. It was communicated to me by R. Chambers, Esq., and was written by Mrs. Grant of Laggan. In her letters unpublished, she declares the source of her information to have been some papers in the possession of a Scotch clergyman, "which," says Mrs. Grant, "it appears he did not give to John Home, who would scarcely have asked the favour, keeping very shy of his old brethren."
[248] Brown's History of the Highlands, part ii. p. 141.
[249] Mrs. Grant's MS.
[250] Mrs. Grant's MS.
[251] Brown's Highlands.
[252] Mrs. Grant's MS.
[253] "The credit of this feat," writes Mrs. Grant, "rests merely on the country tradition: and the silence concerning it, in the publications and records of those times, is accounted for, first, by the shame which the commanders of the party felt at being thus surprised and outwitted by an inferior number of those whom they had been accustomed to style barbarians and to treat as such."—MS.
[254] Mrs. Grant's MS.
[255] Mrs. Grant's MS.
[256] Sketches of the Highlands, vol. i. pp. 60, 61.
[257] Brown's Highlands.
[258] Reay, p. 88.
[259] See Culloden Papers.
[260] Stewart's Sketches, vol. i. p. 86.
[261] Reay, p. 271.
[262] Mrs. Grant's MS.
[263] Mrs. Grant's MS.
[264] Conjectured to be Lord Lovat.
[265] Appendix to the Memoirs of Sir Ewan Cameron of Lochiel, p. 177.
[266] Mrs. Grant's MS.
[267] Appendix to Home's History of the Rebellion, No. II.
[268] See Appendix, No. II.
[269] Home. Appendix. From the papers of Cameron of Fassefern, Lochiel's nephew.
[270] In the year 1781, Fassefern repeated this conversation to Mr. Home. History of the Rebellion, p. 7.
[271] Forbes, p. 19.
[272] Home, p. 5.
[273] Forbes, p. 19.
[274] Home, p. 6.
[275] Maxwell of Kirkconnel's Narrative, p. 23.
[276] The beautiful poem of Campbell, entitled "Lochiel," is founded on this circumstance.
[277] Mrs. Grant's MS.
[278] Life of Jenny Cameron. London. Printed for C. Whitefield, in White Friars, 1746.
[279] Life of Jenny Cameron.
[280] Forbes, p. 23.
[281] The poem entitled "Jeanie Cameron's Lament," is, with other inedited Jacobite songs, likely soon to be given to the world, arranged to true Scottish airs, and published in parts. These songs are collected by a member of one of the most ancient Jacobite families. The accomplished young lady who has engaged in this undertaking is Miss Charlotte Maxwell, the sister of Sir William Maxwell, Bart., of Menteith, Wigtonshire, and a descendant of the Earl of Nithisdale. The ballad of Sherriff Muir, is among the first of the interesting collection.
[282] Forbes, p. 23.
[283] Maxwell of Kirkconnel, p. 45.
[284] Maxwell, p. 105.
[285] Home, p. 164.
[286] Dated, Edinburgh, 12th Jan. 1745-6. This extract, for which I am indebted to Mr. Macdonald, who possesses the orderly-book, was considered an extremely curious passage by Sir Walter Scott.
[287] Burrell's regiment was so broken, that not two men were left standing. Home, Appendix.
[288] In a letter among the papers of Mr. Murray of Abercairney, the imputations upon the Highlanders are strongly and ably refuted. For obvious reasons I have not given the extract, nor gone more closely into a subject which belongs to the province of history.
[289] See Mrs. Grant's MS.
[290] Home, Appendix, p. 373.
[291] See note 2 in Chambers's History of the Rebellion, p. 121.
[292] See History of the Rebellion, taken from the Scots' Magazine, p. 353.
[293] Cluny Macpherson's Narrative. Home, Appendix, p. 365.
[294] Of one of these there is an interesting anecdote in the Tales of a Grandfather, vol. iii. p. 295, note.
[295] Home's History of the Rebellion, Appendix, p. 146.
[296] Brown's History of the Highlands, Part II. App. cvii. from the Stuart Papers.
[297] Brown's History of the Highlands. No. LXX.
[298] Chambers, p. 145.
[299] Mrs. Grant's MS.
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