[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.