[6] The "Pragmatic Sanction" was published by the Emperor Charles the Sixth on the 17th of April, 1713, whereby, in case of his having no male issue, his daughters were to succeed to his hereditary dominions, in preference to the sons of his late brother, Joseph the First.
[7] The ten regiments of Marines took rank in the regular Army, and were numbered from the Forty-fourth to the Fifty-third regiment:—The seven additional regiments of Infantry, raised in January 1741, were numbered from the Fifty-fourth to the Sixtieth regiment.
[8] James Francis Edward, "The Pretender," son of James II., and of Mary, his second wife, daughter of the Duke of Modena, was born on the 10th June, 1688. He married, in 1719, Mary Clementina, daughter of Prince James Sobieski, and granddaughter of John Sobieski, King of Poland. He died on the 1st June, 1766, (aged 78 years), leaving issue two sons:—
1. Charles Edward Louis Cassimir, termed in England "The Young Pretender;" born on the 30th November, 1720, who married the Princess Stohlberg of Germany, and died at Rome, without issue, on the 31st January, 1788.
2. Henry Benedict, called The Cardinal York; born on the 24th March, 1725. When the last grand effort for the restoration of his family, in 1745, proved abortive, he took holy orders, and was elevated to the purple by Pope Benedict XIV. in 1747, and died at Rome in 1807. The Cardinal was the last male branch of the House of Stuart.
[9] Preston, contracted from Priests' town, the early proprietors of the soil being the monks of Holyrood and Newbattle, who erected on the sea-shore pans for the manufacture of salt, from which circumstance it received the name of Preston-Pans.
[10] Return of the Officers and Men in each regiment of Infantry on the day of the Battle of Culloden:—
| Officers. | Serjeants, Drummers, and Rank and File. | |||||
| Royal Scots | now | 1st | Foot | 26 | 455 | |
| Lieut.-General Howard's | regiment | " | 3rd | " | 16 | 448 |
| " Barrell's | " | " | 4th | " | 20 | 353 |
| Major-General Wolfe's | " | " | 8th | " | 22 | 352 |
| " Pulteney's | " | " | 13th | " | 22 | 352 |
| Brigadier-General Price's | " | " | 14th | " | 23 | 336 |
| " Bligh's | " | " | 20th | " | 20 | 447 |
| Major-General Campbell's | " | " | 21st | " | 19 | 393 |
| Brig.-General Lord Semple's | " | " | 25th | " | 23 | 392 |
| Major-General Blakeney's | " | " | 27th | " | 20 | 336 |
| Brig.-General Cholmondeley's | " | " | 34th | " | 24 | 435 |
| " Fleming's | " | " | 36th | " | 26 | 389 |
| Colonel Battereau's | " | " (disbanded) | 27 | 396 | ||
| " Dejean's | " | " | 37th | regt. | 23 | 468 |
| " Conway's | " | " | 48th | " | 24 | 362 |
| —– | —— | |||||
| Total | 335 | 5,914 | ||||
| —– | —— | |||||
[11] The seven regiments, raised in 1741, were numbered as shown in the following list, and the Numerical titles of six of them, which have since been retained on the establishment of the army, were changed after the Peace of 1748, as specified, viz.:—
| 54th | regt., | com. by Col. | Thomas Fowke, | now the | 43rd | regt. | |
| 55th | " | " | James Long | " | 44th | " | |
| 56th | " | " | D. Houghton | " | 45th | " | |
| 57th | " | " | John Price | " | 46th | " | |
| 58th | " | " | J. Mordaunt | " | 47th | " | |
| 59th | " | " | J. Cholmondeley | " | 48th | " | |
| 60th | " | " | H. De Grangue | disbanded in 1748. | |||