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Authors: Sarah Fraser
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142
In Inverness
…
her fields and granaries
. See Miller,
Inverness
, p. 118, and Major MS, Vol. 2, p. 25.
143
the gateway to the north
. See Daniel Szechi,
1715: The Great Jacobite Rebellion
(Yale University Press, 2006), p. 184.
144
had no idea what to do after they failed to take Newcastle
. Ibid., p. 171.
145
in his late thirties and still in his prime
. See Michael Fry,
Wild Scots
,
Four Hundred Years of Highland History
(John Murray, 2005), p. 48.
145
On his way home
…
clan’s survival
. Major MS, Vol. 2, p. 42.
146
Also in Stirling … entire rebellion
. Szechi,
1715
, p. 185; RH 2/4/305/27 and 46, State Papers Scotland, NAS; Fraser,
Chiefs of Grant
, Vol. 2, pp. 357–58ff.
147
My Lord Lovat is now gone
…
determined on that
. Fraser,
Chiefs of Grant
, Vol. 2, pp. 357–58ff, and Major MS, Vol. 2, p. 46ff.
147
Edinburgh now
…
it bore
. Szechi,
1715
, p. 14, and Ramsay,
Scotland and Scotsmen
(Edinburgh, 1877), Vol. 1, p. 169.
149
The night gave them some cover
… Much of this journey north is covered in Major MS, Vol. 2, p. 46ff.
152
He sent a message
…
theatre of the rebellion
. RH 2/4/307/83b, State Papers Scotland, NAS; Szechi,
1715
, p. 185.
153
hardly any men to command.
RH 2/4/307/83b; Miller,
Inverness
, p. 119; and Major MS, Vol. 2, p. 73ff.
153
Lovat then met in council
…
occupied Inverness on 12 November.
Major MS, Vol. 2, p. 73ff.
155
The next day, Sunday 13th
… The best account of Sheriffmuir is in Szechi,
1715
.
156
Neither side gained much
…
the Jacobite campaign.
Keith,
A Fragment …
, p. 394.
156
I find Lord Lovat’s … to make a diversion
. Argyll to Townshend, SP 54, State Papers Domestic, NA.
162
Lovat stressed to Townshend … to British justice.
Lovat to Townshend, ibid.
163
The Earl of Sutherland … joined me.
Sutherland to George I, in Fraser,
Sutherland Book
, Vol. 1, pp. 335–38.
164
From the government camp
…
fifty miles of the town.
Calendar, Vol. 1, p. 482; Fraser,
Chiefs of Grant
, Vol. 1, pp. 363–64 and Vol. 2, p. 189.
165
we are resolved
…
the key of the north
. SP 54, State Papers Domestic, NA.
165
My presence will inspire
…
slow-moving, considered.
Calendar, Vol. 1, p. 484; Mar State Papers, p. 488.
166
Lovat has it now
…
to make the work easy
. Calendar, Vol. 1, p. 490ff.
166
Now he held the key to the north.
See Hooke,
Correspondence
, Vol. 1, p. 91 fn, and Calendar, Vol. 1, pp. 500–01.
167
He offered Lovat a dukedom
. Hooke,
Correspondence
, Vol. 1, p. 91 fn.
168
From London, King George I
…
steadily Lovat’s way.
Fraser,
Sutherland Book
, Vol. 2, pp. 27ff, 52–53; BL Add MSS 14854 f71.
171
The Reverend James
…
their surviving stem.
Wardlaw MS, pp. 24–27.
171
Lovat’s allies urged Westminster
…
his pardon
. SRO/GD 220/5/630/1, NAS.
172
The Flying Post
. BL Burney collection, 175b, Box 2.
173
He would not usually
…
Fraserdale’s camp.
Fraser,
Sutherland Book
, Vol. 2, pp. 53–61.
174
guarantee the peaceable behaviour of their people
. Lovat to Cadogan, SP 54, State Papers Domestic, NA, March 1716.
176
Lovat’s heart surged with joy.
Warrand (ed.),
Culloden Papers
, p. 44.
176
Lovat set off
…
Argyll was their patron.
Warrand (ed.),
More Culloden Papers
, Vol. 2, p. 102.
176
Sutherland was as good
…
Independent Company of Foot.
Calendar, Vol. 2, p. 225.
177
I can hardly believe
…
which I hope is not true.
Atholl,
Chronicles
, Vol. 2, p. 250.
177
Lovat took it from him.
Warrand (ed.),
More Culloden Papers
, Vol. 2, p. 81.
177
The coffee houses and the other public places are the seats of English liberty.
Anthony Lejeune,
White’s: The First Three Hundred Years
(London: A. & C. Black, 1993), p. 34.
178
expenses he claimed he incurred defending King George
. Lenman,
Jacobite Clans
, pp. 77–78. £14,000 is about £1,250,000 in today’s money.
178
adjust matters betwixt them
. Fraser,
Sutherland Book
, Vol. 2, p. 217.
180
Whilst in London, Lovat had received news of the death of his brother
. Warrand (ed.),
More Culloden Papers
, Vol. 2, p. 119, and Calendar, Vol. 2, p. 87.
182
On Saturday 23 June
…
he meant the Squadrone
. Warrand (ed.),
Culloden Papers
, p. 55.
183
women are children of a larger growth.
See Roy Porter,
English Society in the Eighteenth Century
(London: Penguin, 1991), p. 24.
183
secure them the joint interest of the north.
Warrand (ed.),
Culloden Papers
, p. 75.
183
confident they would not be ‘out’ for long.
Warrand (ed.),
More Culloden Papers
, Vol. 2, p. 124.
183
I don’t know what will become of me.
Ibid., Vol. 2, p. 125.
184
The news of the dismissal … reached Inverness.
Ibid., Vol. 2, p. 128.
184
He was merely to be impoverished.
Warrand (ed.),
Culloden Papers
, p. 57; Calendar Treasury Papers, 1714–19, pp. 222–23.
185
do what you can to have it stopped.
Atholl,
Chronicles
, Vol. 2, p. 254.
185
My dear General you must be active in it.
Warrand (ed.),
More Culloden Papers
, Vol. 2, p. 126.
187
it must be a curse rather than a blessing
. Fraser,
Chiefs of Grant
, Vol. 2, p. 291.
187
to put her in the handsomest manner of my hand.
Ibid., Vol. 2, p. 354.
187
for quantities of provisions
. Ibid., Vol. 1, p. 351.
189
to anyone who would listen
. BL Add MSS 6116 ff87–93.
191
in this he failed
. NLS, Dep 327.
192
gentlemen of the long robe.
1746,
Lives of Lord Lovat
, Vol. 2, p. 65.
193
Lovat wrote to Duncan about the looming crisis.
Warrand (ed.),
Culloden Papers
, p. 70.
193
this gift, which I now reckon as nothing
… For Lovat’s escheat from the King see Mackenzie,
History of the Frasers
, pp. 349–50.
194
that was the question facing Lovat and his legal representatives
. NLS 327 fB23(5).
195
the bread that’s now taken from me.
SP 54 f134.
196
shed more blood in peace than in time of war.
Graham,
Journey through the North
, Vol. 1, p. 49.
197
the fatal Union which I hope will not last long.
Mackenzie,
History of the Frasers
, pp. 352–53.
198
after taking a vomit he felt better at last
. Warrand (ed.),
More Culloden Papers
, Vol. 2, p. 188.
200
Robertson’s house was within two miles of Dounie. Lives of Lord Lovat
, p. 60.
201
he, Lord Lovat, would join with all his.
See
State Trials
, Vol. 18, p. 586.
202
Perhaps you would be so kind just as to send it to me?
BL Add MSS 28239 f63.
202
threw it into the fire.
See
State Trials
, Vol. 18, p. 588.
203
I wish her an happy hour and a safe delivery.
Edward Dunbar,
Social Life in Former Days, chiefly in the Province of Moray
(Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1865)
203
It weighed a satisfying eight pounds
. Catalogue for Lovat Sale, Lot 571.
207
the greatest bouzers in the north.
In
Memoirs of Duncan Forbes
(London, 1748), p. 11.
208
contest the Inverness-shire seat with Culloden.
Grant was sitting MP for Elginshire but the Inverness-shire seat, the hub of the Highlands, was more prestigious and in the right hands should command more patronage.
211
by standards he himself deplored.
Lovat’s memorial to George I and Wade’s response are reprinted in Edmund Burt,
Letters from the North of Scotland, 1754
, Vol. 2 (London: William Paterson, 1876), p. 258ff.
212
This powerful laird …
Ferguson, quoted in Edward King,
Munimenta Antiqua; Or, Observations on ancient Castles, including Remarks on
…
the Progress in Great Britain and on
…
the Changes in Laws and Customs
(London: G. Nicol, 1799–1805) p. 63.
214
a man of a bold, nimbling kind of sense
…
sacrifice everything to their interest.
See Clerk of Penicuik,
Memoirs
, pp. 208–09, one of the commissioners who brought in the Act of Union.
215
many a peruke had been baked in a better crust.
See Burt,
Letters from the North
, Vol. 1, p. 85.
215
rather too much, I think, for the sportsman’s diversion.
Ibid., pp. 64–6.
215
rankled with him and London
. In
Jacobite Clans
, Lenman uses Lovat as his paradigmatic example of how the great Highland chiefs tried to negotiate the transition from clannishness to capitalism and the modern age.
216
the clan with its well-being
. Dodgshon,
Chiefs to Landlords
, p. 85.
217
we are in the same slavery as ever
. Warrand (ed.),
More Culloden Papers
, Vol. 2, p. 322.
218
Bailie John Steuart.
See Bailie John Steuart,
Letter-Book of Bailie John Steuart of Inverness
(Edinburgh: Scottish History Society, 1915), pp. xxii–xxiii.
219
cruives.
See Burt,
Letters from the North
, Vol. 1, p. 67.
221
neither did I hear of any theft or robbery.
Warrand (ed.),
Culloden Papers
, p. 97.
223
in perpetuity in his own family
. Fraser,
Chiefs of Grant
, Vol. 2, p. 296.
224
ane o’ Mary’s lovers
…
the castle was on the verge of following it.
Burt,
Letters from the North
, Vol. 1, pp. 20, 22, 35.
226
the whiff of Jacobitism
. ‘Bobbing John’ Mar was the hopelessly indecisive leader of the 1715 uprising.
226
Demonology was a passion.
Dr Alexander Carlyle of Inveresk,
Autobiography of Dr Alexander Carlyle
…
,
ed. Hill Burton (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1860), p. 8ff.
227
my lovely soul’s affection for me
. Fraser,
Chiefs of Grant
, Vol. 2, p. 298.
228
serve each one by serving them all.
Warrand (ed.),
Culloden Papers
, p. 113.
229
you secure the estate of Lovat to Simon’s bairns
. Ibid., p. 117.
231
Why had she changed her mind?
Fraser,
Chiefs of Grant
, Vol. 2, p. 300.
234
an indignity put upon my person and family, that I can hardly bear
. Ibid., p. 304.