Robert Forbes, A.M.
[346] Here begins vol. iv. of Bishop Forbes's Manuscript Collection. It is entitled:
'The Lyon in Mourning,' or a collection (as exactly made as the iniquity of the times would permit) of Speeches, Letters, Journals, etc., relative to the affairs, but more particularly, the dangers and distresses of.... Vol. 4th. 1748.
Extera gens nostra passim dominatur in orbe,
Scotorum Princeps vix, ubi degat, habet!
On the inside of the back board there is one piece of wood, an inch long by about 3⁄8 broad and 1⁄8 thick (and there has been another piece, but now it is not) and underneath is written:—
The above are pieces of that identical eight-oar'd boat, on board of which Donald Macleod, etc., set out from Boradale on the continent with the Prince (after the battle of Culloden) for Benbecula in the Long Isle. The above pieces were sent to me from Major MacDonald of Glenaladale to the care of Captain Alexander MacDonald in Edinburgh, brother-german to Dalely. The said Alexander MacDonald delivered the above pieces to me on Wednesday evening, December 28th, 1748, he having come under a promise upon our first acquaintance to procure me a bit of the eight-oar'd boat. See vol. 2, ff. 270, 284, vol. 3, ff. 581, 582. Vol. 4, ff. 677, 678.—Robert Forbes, A.M.
[347] It is very remarkable that the Prince made little rest serve him at any time, and that he was almost indefatigable in walking and in undergoing hardship. [See ff. 238, 244, 291.]—Robert Forbes, A.M.
[348] See f. 1664.
[349] See f. 1665.