Bonnie Prince Charlie: Charles Edward Stuart (Pimlico) (108 page)

1
L M, i
, p.285

2
R A Stuart M 10/2, p.5.

3
L M
, i, pp.203,286–7; O’Sullivan, pp.50–1; La Tremouille, p.23; H M C, 14, ix, pp.130–1; Tayler,
Stuart Papers
, pp.136–7.

4
London Gazette
, 20–23 July 1745.

5
R A Stuart 267/5.

6
R A Stuart M 10/2, pp.6–7.

7
L M
, i, p.288.

8
Ibid
.

9
O’Sullivan, p.50.

10
L M
, i, p.288.

11
R A Stuart M 10/2, p.7.

12
Ibid
., p.8.

13
For the everyday life of the clansmen at the time see Edward Burt,
Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland
(1818).

14
L M
, i, p.205.

15
L M
, i, p.289. This was not the prince’s only
faux-pas
that night. Having examined the bed, he declared he would stay up all night and give the bed to Sheridan. Taking this as an aspersion on the cleanliness of his sheets, MacDonald, with unconscious irony, expostulated that they were fit for a prince to sleep on (
ibid
).

16
R A Stuart M 11, pp.38–9.

17
Ranald MacDonald of Clanranald, ‘Account of Proceedings from Prince Charles’s landing to Prestonpans’,
Scottish Historical Society Miscellany
IX (Donald Nicholas, ed., 1958), p.206.

18
L M
, i, p.205.

19
G. Lockhart,
The Lockhart Papers
(1817) (hereinafter
L P
), ii, p.440;
L M
, i, p.148.

20
R A Stuart M 10/2, p.9.

21
L M
, i, p.289; R A Stuart M 10/2, p.9.

22
R A Stuart M 11, p.39.

23
Ibid
., p.40.

24
R A Stuart M 10/2, p.9; La Tremouille, p.28.

25
R A Stuart Box 1/213.

26
Andrew Lang, ed.,
The Highlands of Scotland in 1750
(Edinburgh, 1898), pp.67–8.

27
L M
, ii, p.198.

28
Ibid
.

29
L P
, ii, p.479; Clanranald’s account, loc.cit., p.204.

30
Clanranald’s account, p.206; Denys Bower MSS.

31
L P
, ii, p.481; H. R. Duff,
Culloden Papers
(1815) (hereinafter
C P
), pp.203–4.

32
R A Stuart M 11, p.41; O’Sullivan, pp.54–5.

33
L M
, iii, p.50.

34
L M
, iii, p.51.

35
R A Stuart M 11, p.43.

36
Murray of Broughton
, p.154.

37
John Home,
The History of the Rebellion in the Year 1745
(1802) (hereinafter Home’s
History
), pp.39–40.

38
R A Stuart M 10/2, p.9.

39
‘Lochgarry’s narrative’ in W. B. Blaikie,
The Itinerary of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
(Edinburgh, 1897), p.113;
L M
, i, p.206; R A Stuart M 11, p.43.

40
L M
, iii, p.52.

41
R A Stuart M 10/2, p.11.

42
Home’s
History
, p.44.

43
Not even Bruce Lenman, who used the Lochiel correspondence at Achnacarry house, has been able to penetrate any further into the mystery.
Jacobite Clans of the Great Glen
, op.cit., p.159.

44
R A Stuart M 11, pp.44–7.

45
R A Stuart M 10/2, p.11.

46
R A Stuart M 10/1, pp.28–9.

47
Ibid
., p.29.

48
L M
, iii, p.120.

49
Ibid
., p.121.

50
No one can be certain of the mixture of motives that persuaded Lochiel to come out. But Home’s story (
History
, p.44) that he was shamed into it is absurdly unconvincing. It is interesting to note that Victorian sentimental Jacobites refused point-blank to accept that Lochiel’s decision could have been based on hard-headed interest. For a wilful and badly argued refusal to face facts see Andrew Lang,
Prince Charles Edward
, op.cit., pp.99–100.

51
R A Stuart M 11, p.47; 266/174; 74; Mahon, iii, p.xxi; La Tremouille, p.34.

52
L P
, ii, p.480.

53
L P
, ii, p.482.

54
R A Cumberland 4/310.

55
L P
, ii, p.483;
L M
, i, p.207.

56
L M
, i, p.292.

57
R A Stuart M 10/2, pp.12–13.

58
S P Scotland 25 Nos 47,51;
C P
, p.245.

59
S P Scotland 25 Nos 49,53,77,79,82;
C P
, p.246.

60
For his career see G. Menary,
The Life and Letters of Duncan Forbes of Culloden
(1936).

61
For Lovat’s relationship with Forbes see Lenman.
Jacobite Clans of the Great Glen
., op.cit., pp.101–45.

62
See below pp.176–81.

63
C P
, p.370.

64
C P
, p.252.

65
C P
, pp.400–1,409.

66
R A Cumberland 4/311.

67
The Report of the Proceedings and Opinion of the Board of General Officers on their Examination into the conduct, behaviour and proceedings of Lieutenant-General Sir John Cope
(1749) (hereinafter
Cope
), p.19;
L M
, i, p.352;
C P
, p.406.

68
Lochgarry’s narrative, loc. cit., p.113;
L P
, ii, p.483;
L M
, i, p.36;
Murray of Broughton
, pp.165–6; Home’s
History
, p.46.

69
R A Stuart 10/1, p.30.

70
Scots Magazine
, 1747, p.107.

71
London Gazette
, 3–6 August 1745.

72
C P
, p.447.

73
L M
, i, p.207.

74
L P
, ii, p.484.

75
R A Cumberland 4/311; Clanranald’s account, loc.cit., p.208.

76
R A Stuart M 10/2, pp.13–14.

77
S P Scotland 25 Nos 87 and 99; R A Stuart M 11, p.50.

78
L P
, ii, p.484.

79
Murray of Broughton
, p.168.

80
Clanranald’s account, p.209.

81
R A Stuart M 10/2, p.15.

82
For Cope’s situation see the detailed account in R. C. Jarvis,
Collected Papers on the Jacobite Risings
(Manchester, 1972), 2 vols, i, pp.3–24.

83
Clanranald’s account, p.210.

84
R A Stuart M 10/2 pp.14–15.

85
L P
, ii, p.442.

86
Scots Magazine
, 1747, p.626. After a protest at his levity from the chiefs, the prince was prevailed on to raise this to a matching £30,000.

87
R A Cumberland 4/324;
L M
, i, p.207.

88
L M
, i, p.207.

89
R A Stuart M 10/1, pp.58–9.

90
O’Sullivan, pp.62–3.

91
L M
, i, p.207.

92
L P
, ii, p.442.

93
Home’s
History
, p.117.

94
L P
, ii, p.442.

95
Cope
, p.116

96
H M C 15, ii, p.245.

97
Cope
, p.45. Cope’s route from Stirling had been through Amulree, Aberfeldy, Trinifur and Dalnacardoch.

98
Clanranald’s account, p.211.

99
S P Scotland 25 No. 100.

100
See the Jacobite order of march for 27 August in R A Cumberland 4/328.

101
L P
, ii, p.443; R A Cumberland 4/329–31.

102
This was the correct decision: Cope reached Ruthven on the 27th, Dalrachny on the 28th and Inverness on the 29th (
Cope
, p.47).

103
Murray of Broughton
, p.184.

104
Duncan Warrand, ed.,
More Culloden Papers
(Inverness, 1930), 5 vols (hereinafter
M C P
), iv, pp.45,235;
Cope
, pp.43–4; O’Sullivan, p.65;
L M
, i, p.294.

105
R A Cumberland 4/327.

106
C P
, p.391;
L P
, ii, p.440; O’Sullivan, pp.66–7.

107
L M
, iii, p.121.

108
C P
, p.412. For an analysis of Cluny’s ambivalence see Lenman,
Jacobite Clans
, op.cit., pp.155–6.

109
L M
, i, pp.208,294,353. The prince regarded Robertson as an important target. See R A Cumberland 4/319,332,335,339.

110
L M
, i, pp.208,294.

111
Allardyce Papers, 2 vols (New Spalding Club, Aberdeen, 1895–6), ii, p.368; R A Cumberland 5/246.

112
Caledonian Mercury
, 3 September 1745.

113
L M
, i, p.208.

114
Walpole Correspondence
, 19, p.206.

115
S P Scotland 26 No.3.

116
L M
, i, p.208.

117
L P
, ii, p.443.

1
R A Stuart M 11 p.61.

2
James Maxwell of Kirkconnell,
Narrative of Charles, Prince of Wales’s expedition to Scotland in the year 1745
(1841), p.31.

3
R A Stuart M 10/1, p.42.

4
R A Stuart M 11, p.64.

5
Elcho,
Short Account
, op.cit., p.255; Tayler,
Jacobite Miscellany
(‘Elcho’s Diary’), p.145.

6
Clanranald and Keppoch were given the Dundee assignment (
L P
, ii, p.486); Glenbucket was sent farther afield, to the north-east, on the same mission (R A Cumberland 5/427).

7
R A Stuart M 10/2, p.20.

8
Maxwell of Kirkconnell, op.cit., p.31; Chevalier de Johnstone,
A Memoir of the ’Forty-Five
(1820), p.10.

9
Clanranald’s account, p.213.

10
For Murray’s career see K. Tomasson,
The Jacobite General
(Edinburgh, 1958).

11
Atholl, 7th duke of,
Chronicles of the Families of Atholl and Tullibardine
, 5 vols (1908), iii, pp.81–2.

12
R A Stuart 10/2, pp.19–20; O’Sullivan, p.68.

13
Chevalier de Johnstone, p.12.

14
R A Cumberland 5/249.

15
Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.32; R A Stuart 10/1, p.42.

16
Tomasson, op.cit., p.31.

17
Murray of Broughton
, p.186.

18
L M
, i, p.208.

19
Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.33.

20
R A Cumberland 5/253, p.267.

21
Murray of Broughton
, p.190.

22
Again, this was almost certainly the correct decision. Leaving Inverness, Cope reached Nairn on 4 September, Elgin on the 5th, Fochabers on the 6th, Cullen 7th, Banff 8th, Turriff 9th, Old Meldrum 10th and Aberdeen on the 11th (
Cope
, p.33).

23
L M
, ii, pp.58–61.

24
L M
, i, p.209; Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.33.

25
Caledonian Mercury
, 16 September 1745;
Murray of Broughton
, p.191. On this day’s march the prince once again showed his infallible instinct for showmanship. Between Dunblane and Doune he halted and took a glass of wine while sitting on horseback, reportedly dazzling the local ladies with his regal aura (
L P
, ii, p.486).

26
L P
, ii, p.489.

27
Lord George Murray, ‘Marches of the Highland Army’ in R. Chambers, ed.,
Jacobite Memoirs of the Rising of 1745
(1834), p.35;
L P
ii, p.486.

28
Cochrane Correspondence regarding the affairs of Glasgow 1745–46
(Maitland Club, 1830), p.105; S P Scotland 26, No.36.

29
L M
, i, p.209.

30
O’Sullivan, pp.69–70; R A Stuart M 11, p.68.

31
R A Stuart 10/1, p.44.

32
Lord George Murray, ‘Marches’, loc.cit., p.36; Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.33; O’Sullivan, p.70;
Murray of Broughton
, p.132.

33
R A Stuart M 11, p.68.

34
Home’s
History
, p.82.

35
S P Scotland 26 ff.47–50.

36
S P Dom 76 ff.245–7.

37
T. B. Howells,
A Collection of State Trials
, 34 vols (1828), 18, pp.863–1070.

38
S P Scotland 26 f.79.

39
R A Stuart M 11, p.71.

40
L M
, i, p.249; Home’s
History
, p.93.

41
R A Cumberland 5/282; Clanranald’s account, p.215.

42
R A Stuart M 10/1, p.46.

43
R A Stuart M 11, p.75; R A Stuart M 10/1, p.48.

44
Woodhouselee MSS (ed. Steuart, 1907), p.25.

45
L P
, ii, p.488.

46
R A Stuart M 11, pp.73–4.

47
Home’s
History
, p.99.

48
Tayler,
Jacobite Miscellany
, p.145.

49
Home’s
History
, p.99.

50
Ibid
., p.100.

51
Elcho, pp.257–8; O’Sullivan, p.73.

52
Charles Edward reciprocated their affection; he always had a strong feeling for the underdog (cf.
L M
, i, p.214).

53
R A Stuart M 11, p.76; R A Stuart M 10/1, p.49.

54
Elcho, pp.258–9; Tayler,
Jacobite Miscellany
, p.39.

55
L M
, i, p.214.

56
Elcho, p.259.

57
‘At night there came a great many ladies of fashion, to kiss his hand, but his behaviour to them was very cool. He had not been much used to women’s company and was always embarrassed while he was with them’ (Elcho, p.26l).

58
S P Scotland 26 No.24;
L M
, ii, p.209; Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.38.

59
Woodehouselee MSS, p.32; Elcho, p.262.

60
L M
, ii, p.209; Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.39; Home’s
History
, Appendix, p.31.

61
Elcho, p.262.

62
Cope
, p.48.

63
Allardyce Papers, i, p.172;
Caledonian Mercury
, 23 September 1745.