[753] Burt’s Letters, vol. ii. pp. 277, 278.
[754] Lovat himself commanded one of these companies, and appears to have felt pretty sore at the loss of it.
[755] Burt’s Letters, vol. ii. pp. 273, 274.
[756] Idem, pp. 278, 279.
[757] “The companies were six in number: three distinguished by the name of large companies, consisted of 100 men each; and three smaller companies, of 70 men each. The former were commanded by captains, and the latter by captain-lieutenants, each commanding officer being, as the name implies, independent of the others. To each company, great and small, was attached the same number of subalterns, viz. two lieutenants and one ensign.”
[758] Burt’s Letters, vol. ii. pp. 303–314.
[759] Scotland (1689–1747), vol. ii. p. 247.
[760] Among Wade’s correspondents were Robert Stewart of Appin, Alexander Macdonald of Glencoe, Grant, Laird of Glenmorison, the Laird of Mackinnon, Robert Campbell, alias Macgregor (the notorious Rob Roy), Lord Ogilvy. “No doubt,” writes Lockhart to the Pretender, “the government will be at pains to magnify and spread abroad their success in disarming the Highlanders, but depend on’t, it’s all a jest; for few or no swords or pistols are or will be surrendered, and only such of their fire-arms as are of no value.”—Lockhart Papers, vol. ii. p. 195.
[761] Letter xxvi., p. 191, vol. ii.
[762] Letter xvi.