[67] This is interlined in the manuscript. See f. 216. She married Ronald MacAlister, of the family of Loup.
[68] Neil MacEachan or MacKechan, the attendant of Flora MacDonald, was a descendant of the MacDonalds of Howbeag in South Uist. He followed the Prince to France, and settled there. One of his sons was Marshal MacDonald, Duke of Tarentum, one of Napoleon's most distinguished generals.—MacGregor's Flora MacDonald, p. 64.
[69] This was Roderick Mackenzie, who was killed by Cumberland's soldiers near Fort Augustus, and in dying tried to put an end to the pursuit of the Prince by pretending that it was he whom they had slain. See ff. 482, 1800.
[70] There is a printed copy of 'Alexis, Part 1st,' bound up in the end of volume eighth of this collection.
[71] For some interesting particulars about the MacDonalds of Barrisdale, see the Scottish Antiquary, vol. viii. p. 163, and vol. ix. p. 30.
[72] Not fact, as Donald Roy, who was there, told me.—F.
[73] No doubt Lochiel. See ff. 441, 616.—F.
[74] Not true. See ff. 1161, 1162.—F.
[75] See f. 1685.
[76] See f. 558.