FOOTNOTES:
[1] There is no statement of the date of Lord Nithisdale's birth in any of the usual authorities, neither can his descendant, William Constable Maxwell, Esq., of Terregles, supply the deficient information.
[2] Secret History of Colonel Hooke's Negotiations, by himself, p. 175. London, 1740.
[3] Patten's History of the Rebellion, of 1715, p. 234.
[4] Service of the Earl of Eglintoun, as heir male of the Earl of Wintoun. Printed for the family. Extract from "Peerage Law by Riddell," p. 201. Published in 1825.
[5] Service of the Earl of Eglintoun, p. 8.
[6] Buchan's Account of the Earls Marischal, p. 125.
[7] Eglinton Case.
[8] Patten, p. 52.
[9] Patten, p. 54. Life of the Earls Marischal, p. 130.
[10] Reay's History of the Late Rebellion. Dumfries, 1718.
[11] Reay, p. 139.
[12] Now of Sir Charles Stuart Menteath, Bart.
[13] Reay, p. 184.
[14] Id.
[15] Id. p. 211.
[16] Reay, p. 257.
[17] Patten, pp. 224-235. Colonel Hooke's Negotiations.
[18] In the Life of Lord Derwentwater.
[19] Reay, p. 326.
[20] See Letters in the State Paper Office from Lord Widdrington, and many others of inferior rank, No. 3. 1715.
[21] State Papers, 1716, No. 3.
[22] State Papers, No. 3, July 26, 1715.
[23] Reay, p. 355.
[24] Reay, p. 359.
[25] A Faithful Register of the Late Rebellion, London, p. 65, 1718.
[26] Faithful Register, p. 86.
[27] Her picture, painted in the bloom of her youth, is still at Terregles, in Dumfriesshire, the seat of William Constable Maxwell, Esq., the descendant of Lord Nithisdale. To Mrs. Constable Maxwell, of Terregles, I am indebted for the following interesting description of the portrait of Lady Nithisdale, to which I have referred. "Her hair is light brown, slightly powdered, and she is represented with large soft eyes, regular features, and fair, rather pale complexion. Her soft expression and delicate appearance give little indication of the strength of mind and courage which she displayed. Her dress is blue silk, with a border of cambric, and the drapery a cloak of brown silk."
[28] His son was restored to his father's honours. The title of Marquis of Powis became extinct; but the estates devolved on Lord Herbert of Cherbury, husband to the last Marquis's niece; and ultimately to Lady Henrietta Herbert, who married Lord Clive, created Earl of Powis.—Burke's Extinct Peerage.
[29] Faithful Register, p. 84.
[30] Faithful Register, p. 86.
[31] Burke's History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. i. p. 329.
[32] See Letters and Petitions in the State Papers, No. iii. p. 1716.
[33] See Burke's Commoners, vol. i. p. 333.
[34] See Burke's Commoners, vol. i. p. 334.
[35] I am indebted to the present Mr. Craik, of Arbigland, for this correspondence.
[36] I am indebted for some of these particulars to the courtesy of William Constable Maxwell, Esq., present owner of Terregles, Carlaverock, and also of the beautiful hereditary property of Lincluden.
[37] Patten, p. 52
[38] Patten. Reay.
[39] "Secret History of the Rebels in Newgate;" a scarce Sixpenny Tract, in the British Museum. Third Edition.
[40] For this interesting paper I am indebted to the Hon. Mrs. Bellamy, sister of the present and niece of the late Viscount Kenmure.
[41] Faithful Register of the late Rebellion, p. 93; also State Trials.
[42] The impression on the minds of Lord Kenmure's descendants is, that he was by no means a man of feeble character, but one of great fortitude and resolution.
[43] Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, p. 284. Presented to the Abbotsford Club.
[44] Lord Lovat's Memoirs, p. 39.
[45] Wood's Peerage.
[46] Reay, p. 78.
[47] Wood's Peerage.
[48] See Brown's History of the Highlands. But Home, in his History of the Rebellion, speaks of Lords Tullibardine and Seaforth as coming from a different quarter. "Most of these persons," he says, "came privately from France."
[49] Athol Correspondence. Printed for the Abbotsford Club. App. 229.
[50] Home's History of the Rebellion, p. 19.
[51] Home, pp. 22, 23.
[52] Jacobite Memoirs.
[53] Glenfinnin is in the shire of Inverness, and the parish of Glenelg. It is situated at the head of Loch Shiel.
[54] Jacobite Memoirs, p. 23.
[55] Introductory Notice, Athol Correspondence, p. ix.
[56] Pennant's Scotland, vol. i. p. 118.
[57] It has lately been proved, beyond doubt, that the parr is a young salmon, not a distinct fish.
[58] Pennant, p. 119.
[59] Jacobite Memoirs, pp. 26, 27.
[60] Henry Benedict, afterwards Cardinal York.
[61] Jacobite Memoirs, p. 31.
[62] See Forbes's Jacobite Memoirs, p. 51.
[63] This casket was never more seen. It was supposed to contain family jewels.
[64] Mrs. Grant's MS. For which I am indebted for the whole of this account.
[65] Mrs. Grant's MS.
[66] Note in Forbes's Jacobite Memoirs, p. 3.
[68] Athole Correspondence. Introductory Notice.
[69] Historical and Genealogical Account of the Clan Maclean, by a Seneachie.
[70] Brown's Highlands.
[71] Historical Account of the Clan Maclean, p. 4.
[72] "Eriska is interesting as having been the first place where Charles Edward landed in Scotland. It is the boundary of Ottervore toward the north, and is separated from South Uist by a narrow rocky sound. Upon a detached and high rock at its southern end are to be seen the remains of a square tower, the abode of some ancient chieftain."—Macculloch, vol. i. p. 87.
[73] Hist. Account.
[74] Memoirs of Lochiel, p. 193. This account is preferable to that given by the historian of the house of Maclean, as it is of course a more dispassionate statement, although the facts stated are nearly the same. See Hist. and Gen. Acct. pp. 140, 141.
[75] Memoir of Lochiel, p. 194.
[76] According to the Memoirs of Lochiel, it appears that Sir Allan must have died in 1673 or 1674; since the author speaks, in 1674, of the "late Sir Allan."
[77] Archibald, ninth Earl, was only restored to the Earldom.
[78] Memoirs of Lochiel, p. 196.
[79] Id. p. 198.
[80] Mem. of Lochiel, p. 195. Hist. Acct. of the Clan, p. 174.
[81] Memoirs of Lochiel.
[82] Supposed to be John Drummond of Balhaldy.
[83] Dalrymple's Memorials, p. 358.
[84] Hist. Acct. p. 198.
[85] Memoirs of Lochiel, p. 326.
[86] Hist. Account of the Maclean Family, p. 198.
[87] Memoirs of Lochiel, p. 326.
[88] Dalrymple, p. 383.
[89] Dalrymple's Memorials. See Collection of Original Papers, p. 31. Sir John Maclean's Discovery, Part II. p. 4.
[90] Mem. of Locheil, p. 352.
[91] Id. p. 204.
[92] Macculloch's Western Islands of Scotland, vol. i. p. 535.
[93] Macculloch, vol. i. p. 13.
[94] Hist. Notices of the Macleans, p. 206.
[95] Hist. of the Rebellion, p. 199. From the Scots' Magazine. Aberdeen, 1745.
[96] An accomplished descendant of the Macleans of Lochbuy, Miss Moss, of Edinburgh, has left a beautiful tribute to the valour of her clan in a ballad of the forty-five. The following passage occurs in Dr. Brown's History of the Highlands, vol. iv. part II. p. 493, relative to the Macleans of Lochbuy, Coll, and Ardgour:—"Their estates being afterwards restored, they listened to the persuasions of Professor Forbes, and remained quiet until the subsequent insurrection of 1745, when a general rising of the clans would most probably have placed the crown upon the head of the descendant of their ancient line of kings." This reproach rests only on the three houses just mentioned, and not on the Macleans of Brolas, nor of Mull, who were at the battle of Culloden.
For a portion of the materials of the foregoing narrative I am greatly indebted to the Historical and Genealogical Account of the Clan Maclean, by a Seneachie. The work is compiled chiefly from the Duart Manuscripts.
[97] Hist. Notices, p. 209.
[98] See History of Iona by Lachlan Maclean, Esq., Glasgow.
[99] From the Wodrow MS. in the Advocate's Library.
[100] Macleay's History of the Macgregors, p. 110.
[101] Historical Memoir of the Clan Macgregor, by Dr. Macleay, p. 109.
[102] Preface to Rob Roy. Waverley Novels.
[103] Sir W. Scott.
[104] Macleay.
[105] Id.
[106] Macleay.
[107] Stewart's Sketches, vol. i. p. 224.
[108] Macleay, p. 188.
[109] Trials of the Macgregors, xxiv.
[110] Macleay, p. 181.
[111] See Trials, &c. p. 76.
[112] Tour to the Hebrides.
[113] Macleay.
[114] This account of what is called in history the "Loch Lomond Expedition," is taken from the Wodrow MSS. in the Advocate's Library in Edinburgh. Extracts from these MSS. have been printed by James Dennistoun, Esq., to whose work I am indebted for this narrative of Rob Roy's martial career.
[115] The Loch Lomond Expedition, p. 9.
[116] Loch Lomond Expedition. Wodrow Correspondence, p. 30. Also Reay's History of the Rebellion, p. 286.
[117] Macleay, p. 279.
[118] Anderson's Historical Account of the Family of Frisel or Fraser, p. 5.
[119] One of Lord Lovat's family—it is not easy to ascertain which—emigrated after the Rebellion of 1745 into Ireland, and settled in that country, where he possessed considerable landed property, which is still enjoyed by one of his descendants. There is an epitaph on the family vault of this branch of the Frizells or Frazers, in the churchyard of Old Ross, in the County of Wexford, bearing this inscription:—"The burial place of Charles Frizell, son of Charles Fraser Frizell of Ross, and formerly of Beaufort, North Britain." For this information I am indebted to the Rev. John Frizell, of Great Normanton, Derbyshire, and one of this Irish branch of the family, of which his brother is the lineal representative.
[120] Anderson's Historical Account of the Family of Fraser.
[121] Memoirs of the Life of Lord Lovat, written by himself in the French Language, p. 7.
[122] Memoirs of the Life of Lord Lovat, p. 7.
[123] In speaking of the other members of the family, Mr. Anderson remarks:—"The parish registers of Kiltarlity, Kirkill, and Kilmorack, were at the same time examined with the view of tracing the other children of Thomas of Beaufort, but the communications of the various clergymen led to the knowledge that no memorials of them exist. The remote branches called to the succession in General Fraser's entail proves, to a certainty, that these children died unmarried."—Anderson's Historical Account of the Family of Fraser. It appears, however, from a previous note, that a branch of the family still exists in Ireland.
[124] See State Trials. Lovat.
[125] Letter from Fort Augustus in Gentleman's Magazine for 1746.
[126] Introduction to Culloden Papers, p. 36. Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xvi. p. 339.
[127] See Lord Lovat's Memoirs, p. 7. Also Anderson and Woods.
[128] Lord Lovat's Memoirs, p. 18.
[129] Lord Lovat's Memoirs, p. 27.
[130] Chambers's Biography.
[131] Anderson, p. 120.
[132] Lord Lovat's Memoirs, p. 75.
[133] Lord Lovat's Memoirs, p. 75.
[134] Arnot on the State Trials, p. 84.
[135] Memoirs.
[136] Stewart's Sketches, p. 21.
[137] Brown's Highlands, vol. i. p. 120.
[138] Memoirs, p. 51.
[139] Id. p. 53
[140] Memoirs, p. 53.
[141] Arnot, p. 84.
[142] Arnot, p. 84. Anderson, p. 121.
[143] Arnot, p. 89.
[144] Anderson, p. 124.
[145] Lord Lovat's Manifesto, p. 72.
[146] Ibid.
[147] Anderson, p. 124.
[148] Life and Adventures of Lord Lovat, by the Rev. Archibald Arbuthnot, one of the Society for propagating Christian Knowledge, and Minister of Killarlaty, Presbytery of Inverness. London, 1748.
[149] Life and Adventures, p. 42.
[150] Manifesto.
[151] Arnot, p. 79.
[152] Chambers's Dictionary.
[153] Manifesto, p. 71.
[154] Arnot, p. 79.
[155] Arnot, p. 90.
[156] Life of Lord Lovat, p. 47.
[157] Anderson, p. 123.
[158] Manifesto, p. 99.
[159] Arbuthnot, p. 53.
[160] Macpherson. Stuart Papers, vol. i. p. 665.
[161] Manifesto.
[162] Arbuthnot, p. 55.
[163] Arbuthnot, p. 52.
[164] Anderson, p. 130.
[165] Macpherson Papers.
[166] See Smollet, vol. ix. pp. 245 and 255.
[167] Lockhart Memoirs, vol. i. p. 75.
[168] Macpherson. Stuart Papers, vol. i. p. 629.
[169] Manifesto, p. 116.
[170] Two thousand five hundred pounds.
[171] Manifesto, p. 152.
[172] See Murray Papers. Advocate's Library in Edinburgh.
[173] Lockhart Memoirs, vol. i. p. 80.
[174] Stuart Papers. Macpherson, vol. i. p. 641.
[175] Stuart Papers. Macpherson, vol. i. p. 646.
[176] Stuart Papers. Macpherson, vol. i. p. 678.
[177] Ibid. p. 682.
[178] Letter from James Earl of Perth, Chancellor of Scotland, &c.—Edited by William Jerdan, Esq., and printed for the Camden Society, p. 50.
[179] Arbuthnot, p, 63.
[180] Somerville, p. 177.
[181] Somerville, p. 182. Also, Lockhart's Memoirs, p. 180; Macpherson, vol. i. p. 640.
[182] Stuart Papers, p. 652.
[183] Id. p. 655.
[184] Anderson. Chambers.
[185] Arbuthnot, p. 89.
[186] Of the two accounts of Lord Lovat's imprisonment, namely, Mr. Arbuthnot's and Lord Lovat's, the latter bears, strange to say, the greatest air of truth. Mr. Arbuthnot's, independent of his erring in the place of imprisonment, appears to me a pure romance.
[187] Manifesto, p. 301.
[188] Carstares. State Papers, p. 718.
[189] Manifesto, p. 328.
[190] Anderson, p. 137.
[191] Id. p. 138.
[192] Free Examination of the Memoir of Lord Lovat, quoted in Arbuthnot, p. 201.
[193] Anderson, p. 136.
[194] From the Macpherson Papers, vol. ii. p. 622.
[195] Culloden Papers, p. 32.
[196] Manifesto, p. 466.
[197] Ibid. p. 468.
[198] Smollet, p. xi. Patten's History of the Rebellion, p. 2.
[199] Arbuthnot, p. 210.
[200] Edinburgh Review, No. li. art. Culloden Papers, 1826. This article is attributed to the Honourable Lord Cockburn.
[201] See Introduction to the Culloden Papers.
[202] Arbuthnot, p. 211.
[203] Shaw's Hist. of Moray, p. 252.
[204] Ibid.
[205] Anderson, p. 141.
[206] Arbuthnot, p. 218.
[207] Shaw, p. 186.
[208] Such was the style in which Lovat, to be complimentary, usually addressed Duncan Forbes, on account of the military capacity in which the future Lord President had acted during the Rebellion.
[209] Culloden Papers, p. 55.
[210] Culloden Papers, p. 56.
[211] Sergeant Macleod served in 1703, when only thirteen years of age, in the Scots Royals, afterwards under Marlborough, then at the battle of Sherriff Muir in 1715. After a variety of campaigns he was wounded in the battle of Quebec, in 1759, and came home in the same ship that brought General Wolf's body to England. Macleod died in Chelsea Hospital at the age of one hundred and three. His Memoirs are interesting.
[212] Memoirs of the Life of Sergeant Donald Macleod, p. 45. London, 1791.
[213] Anderson. From King's Monumenta Antiqua.
[214] Culloden Papers.
[215] Mrs. Grant's MS.
[216] Anderson, p. 159. From family archives.
[217] Chambers's Traditions of Edinburgh.
[218] Chambers's Traditions of Edinburgh, p. 21.
[219] Culloden Papers, "Quarterly Review," vol. xiv. This article is written by Sir Walter Scott, and the anecdote is given on his personal knowledge.
[220] Arbuthnot, p. 249.
[221] Lady Grange's Memoirs.
[222] Arbuthnot, p. 241.
[223] Arbuthnot.
[224] Quarterly Review, vol. xiv. Culloden Papers.
[225] Culloden Papers, p. 72.
[226] Burt's Letters from the North, vol. xxi.
[227] Culloden Papers, p. 106.
[228] Arbuthnot, p. 250.
[229] Culloden Papers, p. 106.
[230] Henderson's History of the Rebellion, p. 8.
[231] Henderson, p. 10.
[232] James Maxwell, of Kirkconnell; his narrative, of which I have a copy, has been printed for the Maitland Club, in Edinburgh; it is remarkably clear, and ably and dispassionately written, and was composed immediately after the events of the year 1745, of which Mr. Maxwell was an eye-witness.
[233] Maxwell of Kirkconnell's Narrative of the Prince's Expedition, p. 10.
[234] See Lord Elcho's Narrative. MS.
[235] Some say the fifteenth. See Henderson.
[236] Culloden Papers, pp. 211, 372.
[237] Anderson, p. 150.
[238] Culloden Papers, p. 230.
[239] Chambers's Traditions of Edinburgh, p. 9.
[240] Explained in the trial, by Chevis, one of the witnesses, to be in allusion to the royal arms.
[241] Quarterly Review, vol. xiv. p. 327.
[242] Edinburgh Review, 1816, vol. xxvi. p. 131.
[243] State Trials, vol. xviii.
[244] Maxwell of Kirkconnel, p. 167.
[245] Id.
[246] Lord Elcho's MSS.
[247] Quarterly Review, vol. xiv. p. 328.
[248] Arbuthnot, p. 270.
[249] State Trials, vol. xviii. p. 734.
[250] Arbuthnot, p. 279.
[251] Chambers's Biography. Art. Fraser.
[252] State Trials.
[253] Anderson, p. 153.
[254] Laing's History of Scotland, p. 299.
[255] State Trials, vol. xviii. p. 846.
[256] Chambers's Traditions of Edinburgh, p. 12.
[257] Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xvii. p. 184. These letters were afterwards collected and sold for a guinea.
[258] In allusion to the expression of agony and dismay used some time before by Lord Kilmarnock.
[259] Somerville's Reign of Queen Anne, p. 175, 4to edition; from Lockhart and Macpherson.
[260] State Trials.
[261] Edinburgh Review, vol. xxvi. p 132.
[262] Horace Walpole.
[263] State Trials, vol. xviii. p. 326.
[264] Free Examination of the Life of Lord Lovat; London 1746.
[265] Mrs. Grant's MS.
[266] Anderson, p. 187.