Read Bonnie Prince Charlie: Charles Edward Stuart (Pimlico) Online
Authors: Frank McLynn
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R A Stuart Box 2/136.
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A brave but unconvincing attempt is made by Sir Compton Mackenzie in
Prince Charlie’s Ladies
, op. cit., pp.194–200.
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R A Stuart 321/109.
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Browne, iv, p.88; R A Stuart 323/159.
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R A Stuart 327/115.
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R A Stuart 310/116.
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R A Stuart 324/43.
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R A Stuart 326/63; 327/123.
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Donald MacIntosh to Edgar, 6 February 1754, R A Stuart 346/142.
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R A Stuart 330/61; 331/80.
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R A Stuart 331/105.
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A E M D Angleterre 81 f.94.
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For full details see C. Leo-Berry,
The Young Pretender’s Mistress
(1977).
14
Memoirs of Strange and Lumisden
, op. cit., ii, p.319.
15
Walpole Correspondence
, 10, pp.46–7.
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H M C, 11, vii, pp.50, 151–2.
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Stowe MSS 158 f.224.
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L M
, i, pp.314–15.
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R A Stuart Box 1/344.
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A E M D Angleterre 81 f.71.
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R A Stuart 316/113.
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Some, but not all, of the subsequent correspondence can be followed in Tayler,
1745 and After
(‘O’Sullivan’s account’), op. cit., pp.240–5.
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R A Stuart Box 1/345.
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R A Stuart 332/51.
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R A Stuart Box 1/346.
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R A Stuart 332/65.
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From 1768–72 she was a bedchamber woman at £200 p.a. See
Royal Kalendar
, 1768, p.90;
Court and City Register
, 1772, p.91.
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R A Stuart Box 1/349.
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R A Stuart 332/139.
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R A Stuart Box 1/347.
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Leo-Berry, op. cit., p.44.
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R A Stuart 332/139; 333/18,58.
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R A Stuart 333/58,80.
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R A Stuart 333/150.
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R A Stuart 333/5,17.
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R A Stuart 338/141.
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R A Stuart 334/169; 337/49,67,145.
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R A Stuart 337/155,174; 338/32,98.
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R A Stuart 340/32.
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R A Stuart 340/140.
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Browne, iv, p.111; R A Stuart 342/162.
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R A Stuart Box 1/355.
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King,
Anecdotes
, op. cit., p.205.
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Marischal, ‘Two Fragments’, loc. cit., p.368.
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R A Stuart 340/64.
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Ibid
.
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R A Stuart 340/129.
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R A Stuart 340/165.
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R A Stuart Box 1/359; Lang,
Pickle the Spy
, p.187.
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R A Stuart 340/122.
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R A Stuart 340/165; 341/159.
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R A Stuart 341/1.
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R A Stuart 341/33.
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R A Stuart 341/52.
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R A Stuart 341/110.
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R A Stuart 341/159.
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R A Stuart 341/188.
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R A Stuart 341/151.
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R A Stuart Box 1/367.
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R A Stuart 341/87.
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R A Stuart 343/17.
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R A Stuart 343/176.
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A E M D Angleterre 81 f.96.
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A E M D Angleterre 81 ff.71–2.
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R A Stuart 344/161.
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R A Stuart 343/17.
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R A Stuart 344/152; Lang,
Pickle the Spy
, p.229.
68
Sir Compton Mackenzie,
Prince Charlie’s Ladies
, p.204.
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Ibid
.
70
Leo-Berry, op. cit., pp.52–4.
71
Memoirs of Strange and Lumisden
, op. cit., ii, pp.214–15.
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Oliver MacAllester,
A Series of Letters
(1767), i, p.39. MacAllester’s information was later endorsed by the Abbé John Gordon (R A Stuart 403/74).
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Tayler,
1745 and After
, op. cit., pp.252–3.
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R A Stuart 332/65.
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R A Stuart 332/145.
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R A Stuart 344/202.
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R A Stuart 346/18.
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R A Stuart 347/42,71.
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R A Stuart 347/128.
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R A Stuart Box 1/376.
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R A Stuart 348/18.
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Ibid
.
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R A Stuart Box 1/388.
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R A Stuart 348/197.
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R A Stuart 348/18.
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R A Stuart 348/139,171.
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R A Stuart 348/18.
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R A Stuart 348/182.
89
R A Stuart 348/19.
90
R A Stuart Box 1/384.
91
R A Stuart 341/17.
92
R A Stuart 341/110,125.
93
R A Stuart 343/2.
94
R A Stuart 337/31.
95
R A Stuart 337/147.
96
R A Stuart 344/152.
97
R A Stuart 346/46. Most of the letter is reproduced in Lang,
Pickle the Spy
, pp.255–62.
98
Ibid
.
99
R A Stuart 346/65.
100
Marischal explicitly endorsed Goring’s comments about Dumont and the money in a letter to the prince on 8 January (R A Stuart 346/36).
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R A Stuart 346/65.
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R A Stuart 346/89.
103
R A Stuart 347/42.
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R A Stuart 347/128.
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Browne, iv, pp.119–20; R A Stuart 347/130.
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R A Stuart 348/40.
107
R A Stuart 348/79.
108
R A Stuart 348/51.
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Browne, iv, pp.120–1; R A Stuart 348/81.
110
R A Stuart 348/80.
111
R A Stuart 348/88.
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Browne, iv, p.121; R A Stuart 348/89.
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R A Stuart 347/31.
114
R A Stuart 347/75.
115
R A Stuart 347/78.
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R A Stuart 349/131. Cf. Charles’s similar memo to R A Stuart 349/148: ‘My courage will never fail, but my health and my body suffer from the terrible situation I am in.’
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R A Stuart 347/128; 348/122,143; 349/4.
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R A Stuart 350/58,114,192.
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R A Stuart 348/139,177; 349/4.
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For Charlotte’s progress see R A Stuart 348/171,195.
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R A Stuart 350/117.
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H M C, III, p.421; Browne, iv, p.122; R A Stuart 350/94.
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R A Stuart 350/192.
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R A Stuart 352/49,107.
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R A Stuart 353/59.
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Robinson to Villettes, 28 May 1756, S P Switzerland 35.
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R A Stuart 353/58.
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‘I would not turn away a cat to please those scoundrels,’ MacAllester,
Series of Letters
, op. cit., i, p.128.
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R A Stuart 356/193.
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R A Stuart 355/15.
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The prince’s furious reactions can be followed at R A Stuart 351/62; 352/32,82; 353/58,133; 354/54.
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R A Stuart 353/59.
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R A Stuart 353/59D.
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R A Stuart 353/92.
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R A Stuart 355/108.
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R A Stuart 358/90.
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R A Stuart 354/55.
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Add. MSS 32,847 f.261; S P France 248 f.304.
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S P France 249 f.263.
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S P France 249 f.274.
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H M C, III, p.141.
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S P France 250 ff.206,312.
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H M C, Hastings, iii, p.108.
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S P France 249 f.190.
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H M C, III, p.141.
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S P France 250 f.326.
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R A Stuart 358/18,59,61.
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For details see R A Stuart 353/58,93–108; 357/85; 359/56.
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R A Stuart 353/59.
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Lady Primrose gave Mittie £150 and eagerly listened to his tales of the prince’s depravity (R A Stuart 359/190; 362/51).
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R A Stuart 360/12.
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R A Stuart 356/148.
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R A Stuart 357/42.
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R A Stuart 356/193.
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R A Stuart 357/70.
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R A Stuart 357/84.
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R A Stuart 357/103,158.
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R A Stuart 357/85.
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R A Stuart 358/28.
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R A Stuart 357/152.
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R A Stuart 357/135.
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R A Stuart 358/87.
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R A Stuart 357/134.
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R A Stuart 357/162.
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Some idea of the unconscious forces inherent in such a father–son exchange can be formed from a reading of Alan Valentine, ed.,
Fathers to Sons. Advice without Consent
(Oklahoma, 1963).
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R A Stuart 352/77.
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R A Stuart 352/183.
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R A Stuart 355/102.
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R A Stuart 355/102. This request was repeated on 21 July 1755 (R A Stuart 357/75) and on 18 August 1755 (R A Stuart 357/144).
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R A Stuart 358/135.
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R A Stuart 359/41.
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R A Stuart 360/110.
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R A Stuart 359/141.
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R A Stuart 360/184.
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R A Stuart 360/6.
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R A Stuart 360/87.
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R A Stuart 361/111.
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R A Stuart 362/33.
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R A Stuart 363/38.
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R A Stuart 359/57–8.
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R A Stuart 360/91.
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R A Stuart 358/129.
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R A Stuart 363/75,165.
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R A Stuart 363/93.
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R A Stuart 364/17.
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R A Stuart 363/89,112.
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R A Stuart 363/85–7.
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R A Stuart 364/128.
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R A Stuart 365/55.
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R A Stuart 365/91.
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R A Stuart 364/157.
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R A Stuart 365/91.
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R A Stuart 366/101.
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R A Stuart 366/155.
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R A Stuart 366/154.
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R A Stuart 366/163.
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R A Stuart 367/84.
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R A Stuart 368/175.
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R A Stuart 372/63.
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The prince noted in his own hand in contemptuous amusement the rumour that Clementina hated him so much that he had to chain her to the bed every night to prevent her running away (R A Stuart 363/139).
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R A Stuart 364/117.
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R A Stuart 364/113.
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R A Stuart 364/116.
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R A Stuart 370/66,158; 371/91; 374/23.
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R A Stuart 364/67; 365/91,98.
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R A Stuart 372/2–3.
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R A Stuart 371/69.
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R A Stuart 374/85.
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Even so, what follows is a severe compression of the material, with many purple passages ignored or excluded.
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R A Stuart 364/56.
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R A Stuart 364/72.
90
R A Stuart 364/116.
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R A Stuart 366/8.
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R A Stuart 366/126.
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R A Stuart 366/135.
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R A Stuart 366/140.
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R A Stuart 366/141.
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R A Stuart 366/131.
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R A Stuart 367/30.
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R A Stuart 366/160; 367/34.
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R A Stuart 368/109.
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R A Stuart 370/15.
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R A Stuart 370/158.
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R A Stuart 371/126.
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R A Stuart 372/1.
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R A Stuart 373/61.
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R A Stuart 373/128.
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R A Stuart 374/7.
107
R A Stuart 374/91.
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R A Stuart 374/43.
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R A Stuart 374/151.
110
R A Stuart 376/78.
111
R A Stuart 377/20.
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R A Stuart 379/124.
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R A Stuart 380/136.
114
R A Stuart 381/84.
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R A Stuart 383/61,107,141.
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R A Stuart 379/125–6; 381/84.
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R A Stuart 386/61.
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R A Stuart 383/74; 384/64.
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R A Stuart 386/2.
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R A Stuart 384/77.
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R A Stuart 384/126.
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R A Stuart 382/50; 383/61.
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R A Stuart 386/31.
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R A Stuart 386/56.
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R A Stuart 386/112.
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R A Stuart 387/19.
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R A Stuart 387/137.
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Claude Nordmann, ‘Choiseul and the last Jacobite attempt of 1759’, in Eveline Cruickshanks, ed.,
Ideology and Conspiracy
(Edinburgh, 1982), pp.201–17.
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R A Stuart 389/118; 390/69.
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R A Stuart 390/60.
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Charles Edward to Belle-Isle, 30 January 1759, R A Stuart 390/69.
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R A Stuart 390/114.
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R A Stuart 390/135,138. The meeting is also described in L. Dutens,
Mémoires d’un voyageur
, op. cit., ii, pp.124–5. Cf. also Sir N. W. Wraxall,
Historical Memoirs of my own Time
(London, 1818), pp.308–10. Wraxall erroneously places the meeting in 1770.
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For the French desire to see Charles Edward land in Ireland see A E M D Angleterre 54 ff.93–4.
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R A Stuart 390/132; 392/67; 394/108.
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R A Stuart 390/161.
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R A Stuart 390/172; 391/13.
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A E C P Angleterre 442 ff.136–8.
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Ibid
.
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R A Stuart 393/36.
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R A Stuart 390/151.
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A E C P Angleterre 442 ff.174–80.
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Nordmann, loc. cit., p.209.
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R A Stuart 391/69.
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R A Stuart 391/49.
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R A Stuart 391/37.
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R A Stuart 392/75,90,102.
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R A Stuart 391/36.
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R A Stuart 392/81.
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R A Stuart 393/4.
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R A Stuart 392/33.
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See above p.199.
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R A Stuart 395/168.
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A S V, Francia, 513, f.41.
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R A Stuart 393/157.
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R A Stuart 493/59.
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R A Stuart 393/168,174.
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R A Stuart 393/166; 397/98.
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R A Stuart 393/58.
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R A Stuart 391/7.
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R A Stuart 393/120.
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R A Stuart 393/121.
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R A Stuart 398/31.
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R A Stuart 399/99.
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R A Stuart 399/122.