[33] The designation Balhaldy is spelt variously in contemporary documents, Bohaldy, Bochaldie, Bahady, etc. Cf. R. L. Stevenson’s Catriona, last chapter.
[34] War was declared with Spain, October 19th, 1739.
[35] Abridged from a State Paper in the French archives, of which portions are printed in Capitaine J. Colin’s Louis XV. et les Jacobites: Paris, 1901.
[36] The Emperor Charles VI. died on October 20th, 1740, and France interfered in the War of the Austrian Succession the following August.
[37] Colin, p. 7.
[38] A. G. M. Macgregor, Hist. of Clan Gregor, vol. ii. p. 359.
[39] Colin, p. 8.
[40] Lord Marischal wrote to the Chevalier in June 1740, telling him that the King of Spain had refused an audience to the Duke of Ormonde on this account. Mahon, Hist. of England, 3rd ed., vol. iii. App. p. iv.
[41] Se infra, pp. 12, 22.
[42] ‘Le roi très chrétien, touché du zèle des Ecossais, était porté à leur accorder les secours dont ils avaient besoin: qu’en conséquence, Sa Majesté voulait bien faire transporter dans ce royaume toutes les troupes irlandaises qui étaitent à son service, avec les armes et munitions et les 20,000 livres sterling qu’on demandait pour aider les montagnards à se mettre en campagne’ (Colin, p. 8).