[277b] Robertson of Inerchraskie to Forbes of Culloden. September 23, 1745.
[278] Manuscripts in the Charter Chest at Cluny Castle. Privately printed.
[280a] Pickle was inducted into his estates, before the Bailies of Inverness and a jury, on February 2, 1758. The ‘Retour’ is cited in Mr. Mackenzie’s History of the Macdonalds.
[280b] The story is in Mr. Mackenzie’s History of the Macdonalds.
[281] All this is probably false.
[284] Mr. Bruce, October 10, 1754, to Gwynn Vaughan, Esq.
[285] Arniston Memoirs, edited by G. W. T. Omond, p. 153. Mr. Dundas of Arniston has kindly supplied a copy containing what is omitted in Mr. Omond’s book—Pickle’s dealings with his tenantry.
[286] See Macallester’s huge and intolerably prolix book, A Series of Letters (London: 1767).
[287] D’Argenson, July 1755.
[288] S. P. France, 468.