The Lyon in Mourning, Vol. 1

146

Near thirty years old before he could speak English at all. – F.

147

See ff. 701, 792, 837.

148

See f. 856.

149

See f. 281.

150

This Journal as far as f. 338 is printed in the Jacobite Memoirs, pp. 362-373. Burke died in Edinburgh on 23rd November 1757. See f. 1706.

151

This epithet is not to be regarded. – F. See f. 667.

152

See f. 1161.

153

See f. 291.

154

See f. 461.

155

See p. 1706.

156

Of this journal there is printed in Jacobite Memoirs (pp. 1-27), from ff. 348-360, in combination with that of Æneas MacDonald, which occurs at f. 490 et seq.

157

See f. 496.

158

Called the Doutelle.

159

See ff. 256, 302, 507.

160

See f. 640.

161

See ff. 257, 302, 462.

162

See f. 643.

163

See f. 643.

164

Mrs. Robertson of Lude, a daughter of Nairn.

165

This lady was Jean Cameron, daughter of Archibald Cameron of Dungallon. See other narratives by her at ff. 547 and 566. An account of her husband's death is given at f. 1734 et seq.

166

See ff. 421, 707, 1087, 1323, 1376.

167

See f. 1485.

168

See ff. 259, 1320, 1378.

169

The passage in brackets is scored through as delete [Ed.]

170

Here begins volume third 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. 3d. 1747.

Cui modo parebat subjecta Britannia Regi,

Jactatus terris, orbe vagatur inops!

On the inside of the front board of volume 3d are adhibited – 1. Piece of the Prince's garter-ribbon. 2. Piece of red velvet, anent which on back of title-page is as follows: (by Mr. Robert Chambers) The small piece of red velvet on the inside of the board was part of the ornaments of the Prince's sword-hilt. While on his march to England he rested on a bank at Faladam, near Blackshiels, where the young ladies of Whitburgh, sisters to his adherent, Robert Anderson, presented some refreshments to him and his men. On being requested by one of these gentlewomen for some keepsake, he took out his pen-knife and cut a portion of velvet and buff leather from the hill of his sword, which he gave to her with his usual courtesy, and which is still (1836) preserved at Whitburgh. The above piece was cut from the larger fragment, and presented to me by Miss Anderson of Whitburgh. – R. C. 3. Piece of Bettie Burk's gown, sent by Mrs. MacDonald of Kingsburgh, according to promise, f. 152. 4. Piece of apron-string, received from Miss Flora MacDonald. R. F. saw the apron on that occasion and had it on him. On the inside of the backboard of volume 3d are 5. Pieces of tartan, explained as under: The above are pieces of the outside and inside of that identical waistcoat which MacDonald of Kingsburgh gave to the Prince, when he laid aside the women's cloaths at the edge of a wood, f. 1434. The said waistcoat being too fine for a servant, the Prince exchanged it with Malcolm MacLeod, f. 239. Malcolm MacLeod, after parting with the Prince and finding himself in danger of being seized, did hide the waistcoat in a clift of a rock, where (upon his returning home in the beginning of September 1747) he found it all rotten to bits, except only as much as would serve to cover little more than one's loof, and two buttons, all which he was pleased to send to me, f. 472. The waistcoat had lain more than a full year in the clift of the rock, for Malcolm MacLeod was made prisoner some time in July 1746, ff. 251, 309. – Robert Forbes, A.M.

171

See f. 37.

172

He was son of George Foulis of the Ravelston family, who, on inheriting the estate of Dunipace from his grandfather, assumed the name of Primrose in terms of the entail. Taken in the north of Scotland he was first imprisoned in Aberdeen, thence sent to Carlisle, where he was tried, and pleading guilty, was sentenced to death, and executed there on 15th November 1746.

173

William Gray, commonly called Duntie Gray, foreman to Lord Shualton. – (F.)

174

Patrick Kier, late wright at Moultrie Hill, near Edinburgh. – (F.)

175

Lady Margaret Primrose, second daughter of Archibald, first Earl of Rosebery.

176

See f. 425.

177

Commonly called Cowley Murray.

178

Lady Mary Primrose, Sir Archibald's widow.

179

Charles Edward is generally said to have been born on 31st December: but 20th December is the date in the Manuscript, being old style.

180

The birthday of the Prince's father, the Old Chevalier, or as the Jacobites called him, King James the Eighth.

181

See f. 1829, where these lines are repeated.

182

John Murray of Broughton (see f. 411 et seq.) became an evidence against his former associates, especially against Simon, Lord Lovat, who was executed at London on 9th April 1747, in his eightieth year, for being implicated in the Rebellion.

183

William, fourth Earl of Kilmarnock, taken prisoner at Culloden and beheaded on Tower Hill, 18th August 1746.

184

Charles Ratcliffe, brother of James, third Earl of Derwentwater, who was executed on 24th February 1716 for his share in the rebellion of 1715. At that time Charles had also been taken and condemned, but he escaped out of Newgate and went to France. In November 1745 he was recaptured on board the Esperance on his way to Scotland with other French officers to take part in the Rebellion, and after identification, he was condemned to suffer the sentence formerly passed upon him. He was accordingly executed on Tower Hill on 8th December 1746. He was a grandson of King Charles the Second, his mother being Mary Tudor, a natural daughter of that king.

185

Not fact, for Mr. Dawson never saw her before she had come to glut herself with the bloody scene. – F.

186

James Dawson, a young Lancashire man. He was being educated at St. John's College, Cambridge; but having misbehaved, and fearing expulsion, ran away. Dreading his father's displeasure, he, on falling in with the Manchester regiment, joined it and was taken at Carlisle. He was tried at London and executed on Kennington Common. The day before his death his father visited him, and took his farewell of him in a most pathetic scene. ['History of the Rebellion,' Scots Magazine, pp. 294, 297.]

187

Lord Balmerino.

188

John MacNaughton, one of Murray's servants who, when he was upon the sledge, was offered his life and £30 or £40 sterling per annum during life, provided he would turn evidence. He answered that they had done him much honour in ranking him with gentlemen, and he hoped to let the world see he would suffer like a gentleman. He suffered at Carlisle, October 18th, 1746, in company with the Rev. Mr. Coppoch, Arnprior, Kinlochmoidart, Major MacDonell, etc.

Robert Forbes, A.M.

189

Sir David Murray was bred Popish.

190

See ff. 375, 707, 1087, 1323, 1376.

191

He was 'Younger of Terpersie' in Aberdeenshire, and had engaged as a volunteer. His father, James Gordon, was an officer in the Prince's army. In the List of Persons concerned in the Rebellion, etc. (Scot. Hist. Soc., vol. viii.), he is said to have been made prisoner at Carlisle. But a story is told of his having been captured at his own house, when, after lurking long among the neighbouring hills, he ventured to pass a night there. His captors, not being sure of his identity, carried him before the minister of the parish, but not getting satisfaction from him, they took him to a farmhouse where his wife and children resided. On his approach his children ran out and greeted him with cries of 'Daddy! Daddy!' and so unwittingly sealed their father's fate. He was tried at Carlisle and executed there on 15th November 1746. As the prisoners taken at Carlisle were sent to London, and those taken in Scotland to Carlisle, the story may be authentic.

192

This letter is printed in the Lockhart Papers, vol. ii. pp. 523-536.

193

See ff. 157, 659.

194

So the copy had it, but I think it should be Culraick. – Robert Forbes, A.M.

195

Scored through and 'Culraick' substituted. – [Ed.]

196

See ff. 158, 661, 1270.

197

See ff. 128, 1275.

198

I am afraid this is not fact, for disputes and canglings arose even in the Abbey at Edinburgh, and I have heard some affirm, who had an opportunity of knowing, that these were owing to the haughty, restless, unaccountable temper of Lord George Murray, some of whose blood-relations fail not to lay blame upon him. Witness likewise the contest betwixt Keppoch and Lochiel about the right hand before they went out to fight Cope, a particular account of which dispute I had from Major MacDonald in the Castle of Edinburgh.

Robert Forbes, A.M.

199

No wonder that councils of war were out of request, when the Prince was always thwarted in them, and hardly got his will in anything he proposed, though his opinion of things in the event turned out to be the most eligible. Lord George Murray was at the head of the opposition, having got the ascendant of the greater part of the chiftains, and having insinuated himself into the good graces of all the clans who were ever ready to embrace his schemes. Besides, it was most unlucky that great jealousies and misunderstandings had arisen betwixt Lord George Murray and the French officers. These things are too notour to admit of any denial. – Robert Forbes, A.M.

200

See f. 770.

201

See ff. 194, 769.

202

See f. 301.

203

See f. 336.

204

See f. 303.

205

See f. 589.

206

See f. 29.

207

Well may honest Donald in a literal sense use the words of the blessed Apostle, 2 Cor. xi. 26, 27: 'In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.' [See Donald's whole Journal, ff. 266-326.] – F.

208

See ff. 263, 264, 265.

209

See f. 239 and footnote, f. 380.

210

See ff. 265, 321.

211

See f. 238.

212

See ff. 263-265.

213

See f. 288.

214

See ff. 134, 184.

215

See f. 267.

216

See ff. 247, 262.

217

See ff. 215, 242.

218

See f. 216.

219

See f. 146.

220

See f. 527.

221

This Journal is printed in the Jacobite Memoirs (pp. 1-27) with some omissions, in combination with another by Duncan Cameron, f. 346, ante.

222

Dr. Burton and Bishop Forbes were both enthusiastic Jacobites, and an account of their meeting follows (f. 519). Later, a considerable correspondence passed between them, most of which the latter embodied in this manuscript.

223

The Prince in his Manifesto from the Abbey of Holyrood-house calls them seven only. Perhaps Mr. Buchanan (as I have heard suggested by several persons) was reckoned amongst the Prince's domesticks.

Robert Forbes, A.M.

224

See ff. 256, 302, 353.

225

The contents of the above paragraph happened in Lochnannuagh. – (F.)

226

See ff. 355, 640, for precise day, etc.

227

See f. 640.

228

See f. 640.

229

At the end of a pamphlet, called 'The Life of Dr. Archibald Cameron, brother to Donald Cameron of Lochiel,' etc. [London, 1753, p. 32], there is given as an Appendix a notice and portrait of 'Miss Jenny Cameron, in a military habit.' She is there said to be the daughter of Hugh Cameron of Glandessary, and to have joined the Prince when he set up his standard with 200 well-armed followers, whom she personally led in action at Prestonpans, Falkirk, and Culloden. Mr. Robert Chambers, in his History of the Rebellion, 7th edition, pp. 251, 252, footnotes, gives all the additional information about this lady which seems to be known.

230

A pamphlet history of the Prince's escape, printed in 1746, and not all facts.

231

See f. 642.

232

See f. 346.

233

See ff. 640, 1476.

234

See the Scots Magazine for September 1746, the first column of p. 445, and second column of p. 492. – (F.)

235

Printed in Jacobite Memoirs, pp. 412-423.

236

See f. 200.

237

See ff. 186-7.

238

See f. 192.

239

See ff. 187, 193, 304.

240

See ff. 152, 210-218, 594.

241

See ff. 188, 589.

242

See f. 149.

243

See f. 485.

244

See ff. 193, 687.

245

See f. 137.

246

See f. 191.

247

See f. 189.

248

See f. 1518.

249

See f. 195.

250

See ff. 138, 205, 598.

251

See f. 138.

252

See ff. 727, 738.

253

Here is a mistake; for Mr MacDonald of Kingsburgh declared to me more than once [see f. 145], that he sought for the Prince some time to no purpose, and had almost despaired to find him, when at last the accidental running of a flock of sheep proved the occasion of finding him out. [See f. 736.]

Robert Forbes, A.M.

254

See f. 138.

255

See ff. 143, 206.

256

See f. 146.

257

See f. 209.

258

See f. 213.

259

See f. 143.

260

See ff. 143, 228.

261

See f. 214, 228.

262

See f. 200.

263

Particularly Donald Roy MacDonald. See f. 768.

264

See f. 201.

265

See ff. 201, 202.

266

See f. 458.

267

See f. 304.

268

See f. 525.

269

Francis Townly, Esquire, of an honourable family in Lancashire, was Colonel of the Manchester regiment, and one of the nine English gentlemen that suffered first upon Kennington Common, July 30th, 1746. [See Scots Magazine for July, pp. 326-330.]

270

The verses are printed with some variations in 'Manchester Collectanea, Chetham Society,' vol. lxviii. p. 235.

271

Alluding to the capitulation at Carlisle.

272

England.

273

See f. 374.

274

Meaning here I suppose the Glenmoriston men [see f. 172], for these men (as I have often heard) were such infamous thieves and noted lifters of cattle, in a word, such remarkable banditti by profession, that the country people who knew them would not drink with them. And yet they proved most faithful and trusty friends to the Prince in his greatest dangers and distresses. These very men (consider and wonder!) that could at any time risque both body and soul for less than the value of a single shilling, were found proof of thirty thousand pounds sterling, and generously despised the tempting bait, whilst others (gentlemen by birth, improved by a proper education) greedily sought after it. This is a most surprising instance of fidelity and heroic virtue! – Robert Forbes, A.M.

275

See f. 1451.

276

See ff. 172, 620.

277

See this point corrected afterwards, f. 820.

278

See ff. 569, 608.

279

See f. 146.

280

See ff. 173, 175, 628, 635.

281

See ff. 173-176.

282

One day when I was conversing with John Cameron (in Edinburgh), uncle of Mr. John Cameron, Presbyterian preacher and late chaplain at Fort William, I asked him if he could inform me who the person was that had shot Culcairn out of the wood. He answered he had good reason to assure me that the father (an old man) of that Cameron whom Captain Grant had basely murder'd near the same spot was the person, and that his aim was against the said Captain Grant. But as he and Culcairn were walking together the latter had the chance to receive the bullet and to fall for his companion. – Robert Forbes, A.M.

283

See f. 58.

284

This paper is not in Mr. Forbes's own hand, and it appears as if the subscriber had been obtained to write it in and sign it.

285

See f. 172.

286

See f. 172.

287

See f. 550.

288

See f. 155.

289

Or rather Moidart, Lochnannua being the boundary betwixt Arisaig and Moidart. See f. 640.

290

See ff. 180, 281, 352, 355, 522.

291

This was George Durie of Grange, who claimed the title of Lord Rutherford as grand-nephew of the first Lord. His claim was disputed by a gentleman of the Rutherford family, and to determine the dispute the Lords' Committee of Privileges ordered both to lodge their proofs, and in end disallowed both claims.

292

It seems to have been from this Journal that the 'Account of the Young Pretender's Escape,' in the Lockhart Papers, vol. ii. pp. 537-562 is taken. But here it is much fuller.

293

See ff. 281, 328.

294

Some difference in this page, etc., from the account of Ned Burk, an eye-witness of the route. – Robert Forbes, A.M.

295

See f. 329.

296

See f. 281.

297

Donald MacLeod in his own account fixes precisely upon April 26th with which Ned Burk's account agrees pretty exactly. See ff. 273, 281, 316, 329. Captain O'Neille in his account, attested by his own subscription, makes the Prince arrive in Knoidart only upon the 28th. See f. 675. But in the copy I formerly took of O'Neille's Journal the Prince came to Knoidart the 26th. See f. 183.

298

Donald MacLeod mentions nothing of this at all. See f. 283.

299

The forementioned Captain Alexander MacDonald (well skilled in the Earse) assured me these words should be spelled as above.

Robert Forbes, A.M.

300

See ff. 270, 284, 287, 343.

301

See ff. 133, 286.

302

See this affair cleared up, ff. 289, 479.

303

See ff. 288, 330.

304

This is a mistake, for he was left at Scalpay and returned to South Uist. ff. 287, 343. – Robert Forbes, A.M.

305

Probably Erwin, f. 291.

306

Captain Alexander MacDonald, Ned Burke, and Miss Flora MacDonald agree in telling me that the name of Clanronald's house in Benbecula is Ballinnagallioch, i. e. the Carl's house, about five miles from Rossinish, which is a kind of a harbour. I told the said Captain Alexander MacDonald that I had asked at several Highlanders about the derivation and meaning of the word Benbecula, but I could never meet with any one that could give me an answer. I then begged him to satisfie me as to that. He answered that he looked upon Benbecula as a corruption of the original, which in Erse was Beinnmhaol (as to the true just spelling) but Beinviol (as to the vulgar way of spelling), i. e. a hummle or bare hill, there being such a hill in the island of Benbecula. – Robert Forbes, A.M.

307

This gentleman, no doubt, has joined the Prince upon his returning again to South Uist. – R. F.

308

At this time 'tis to be presumed from what follows that Donald MacLeod was upon his errand on the continent, f. 301. – F.

309

As to Boystil's seeing the Prince at Coridale and being merry with him, see f. 462.

310

The Prince had different kinds of palaces, f. 300. – Robert Forbes, A.M.

311

Referred to at ff. 188 and 526, but his name now given.

312

See ff. 307, 333.

313

See f. 524.

314

See f. 529.

315

See ff. 218, 525.

316

In this account the honest and trusty Neil MacKechan is altogether neglected. See ff. 149, 529, 533. – Robert Forbes, A.M.

317

See f. 530.

318

This is an error, for there was no tryst in the case at all, nor could there be any such thing. It was all a matter of chance, or rather a wise, unexpected appointment of Heaven, without any foresight or contrivance of man. This is plain and undeniable from Kingsburgh's own words and the words of Miss Flora MacDonald. See ff. 145, 210, 533. – Robert Forbes, A.M.

319

Kingsburgh himself went along with the Prince, leaving Miss MacDonald, etc. who overtook them by the way. See ff. 145, 533. – Robert Forbes, A.M.

320

See f. 228.

321

It appears the Prince had a particular affection for the MacDonalds in his wanderings. See ff. 214, 538.

322

See f. 281.

323

In the original Journal here ended the handwriting of Captain Alexander MacDonald, and then immediately began the handwriting of young Clanranald.

324

This is a wrong date. See the true state of the case in ff. 247, 262, 1218, 1224. – Robert Forbes, A.M.

325

See ff. 244-247, 1664, 1831.

326

See ff. 1219-1226, 1831.

327

Four times at this place, see f. 573. – R.F.