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CHAPTER SIXTEEN

1
O’Sullivan, p.123.

2
Elcho, p.385.

3
Tomasson,
Jacobite General
, p.166.

4
R A Stuart M 11, p.209.

5
R A Cumberland 10/331.

6
R A Stuart M 11, p.210.

7
Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.114.

8
Home’s
History
, pp.187–92.

9
Elcho, p.386; S P Scotland 28 No.1.

10
Tomasson,
Jacobite General
, p.170.

11
R A Stuart M 11, p.211.

12
Daily Advertiser, 7
February 1746.

13
Tomasson,
Jacobite General
, p.167.

14
L M
, i, pp.17,83;
L M
, ii, p.132.

15
R A Cumberland 69/11.41.18.

16
O’Sullivan, p.124; Elcho, p.386.

17
O’Sullivan, p.125.

18
Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.115.

19
L M
, ii, p.32.

20
R A Stuart M 11, pp.211–12.

21
Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.115.

22
Tomasson,
Jacobite General
, p.173.

23
R A Cumberland 10/337.

24
Tomasson,
Jacobite General
, p.174.

25
Lord George Murray, ‘Marches’, p.100.

26
O’Sullivan, p.127.

27
Ibid
.

28
Lord George Murray, ‘Marches’, p.100; Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.116.

29
The retreat from Stirling made this contingency even more remote. D’Eguilles was now disillusioned, convinced he was with a demoralised and defeated army (Add. MSS 34,523 ff.79–80).

30
Tomasson,
Jacobite General
, p.175.

31
L M
, i, p.84.

32
R A Cumberland 69/11.41.18.

33
R A Stuart M 11, p.212.

34
Spalding Club Miscellany
I (1841), p.434.

35
W. Cheyne-MacPherson,
Chiefs of Clan MacPherson
(1948), pp.101–2.

36
Murray, ‘Marches’, p.100.

37
L M
, ii, p.132.

38
Scots Magazine
, 1746, p.87. The prince’s column proceeded by Taybridge and Tummel Bridge to Dalnacardoch. His artillery was taken to Blair Atholl via Dunkeld.

39
S P Scotland 28 No.20.

40
Scots Magazine
, 1746, p.48.

41
Scots Magazine
, 1746, pp.81–9.

42
Speck,
The Butcher
, p.l 13.

43
R A Cumberland 10/340,350.

44
R A Cumberland 10/353.

45
R A Cumberland 10/357.

46
R A Cumberland 10/362,366.

47
R A Stuart 273/21.

48
R A Cumberland 10/358.

49
Elcho, p.388.

50
Scots Magazine
, 1746, p.89; Elcho, p.389.

51
L M
, ii, p.134; R A Cumberland 10/374.

52
O’Sullivan, p.131.

53
R A Cumberland 10/356.

54
L M
, ii, p.134.

55
For a sketch of Lady Anne Mackintosh see Compton Mackenzie,
Prince Charlie’s Ladies
, op.cit., pp.49–69.

56
See Conway to Walpole, 7 May 1746: ‘She was said to be the first in the good graces of the young gentleman but I believe had only the name of it, for he is generally reckoned quite indifferent to women, and I believe a true Italian in all respects’ (
Walpole Correspondence
, 37, pp.244–5).

57
Tayler,
Jacobite Miscellany
, p.65.

58
M C P
, v, pp.4–5.

59
Scots Magazine
, 1746, p.91.

60
Chevalier de Johnstone, p.145.

61
L M
, ii, p.134.

62
Chevalier de Johnstone, p.146.

63
O’Sullivan, p.130.

64
L M
, ii, p.246.

65
M C P
, v, p.5.

66
London Gazette
, 1–4 March 1746.

67
London Gazette
, 8–11 March 1746.

68
M C P
, v, p.5.

69
Add. MSS 34,523 f.81.

70
M C P
, v, p.5.

71
Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.118.

72
L M
, ii, p.138;
Scots Magazine
, 1746, p.91.

73
R A Cumberland 11/41;
M C P
, v, pp.6–8.

74
M C P
, v, p.17.

75
M C P
, v, p.42.

76
R A Stuart M 11, p.215;
M C P
, v, pp.8,17.

77
Scots Magazine
, 1746, p.92.

78
R A Cumberland 10/371,376.

79
Blaikie,
Origins
(‘John Daniel’s account’), p.203.

80
R A Cumberland 10/376,385.

81
Murray, ‘Marches’, p.103; R A Cumberland 11/281.

82
R A Cumberland 11/281–2,292,310.

83
Spalding Club Miscellany
I (1841), p.380.

84
Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.121.

85
S P Scotland 28 No.26.

86
Speck,
The Butcher
, p.122.

87
R A Cumberland 10/131.

88
Chevalier de Johnstone, p.159.

89
R A Cumberland 11/12.

90
When the Prince of Hesse arrived in Brussels and Hawley did not ‘wait on’ him, the prince sent to know if Hawley expected the first visit. Hawley replied: ‘He always expected that inferior officers should wait on their commanders, and not only that, but he gave his Highness but half an hour to consider of it’ (
Walpole Correspondence
, 19, p.206).

91
Marchmont Correspondence
(Miscellany of the Scottish History Society V, 1933), p.343.

92
It is curious that Cumberland’s egregious treatment of the Prince of Hesse receives no mention in Speck’s,
The Butcher
. Perhaps the episode does not create quite the impression the author wants for his hero!

93
R A Cumberland 10/370; 11/297.

94
Tayler,
Jacobite Miscellany
(‘Elcho’s Diary’), pp.160–1.

95
Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.130.

96
R A Stuart M 11, p.234. Cf. Walpole to Mann, 6 March 1746: ‘The rebellion has fetched breath’ (
Walpole Correspondence
, 19, p.221).

97
Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.119.

98
R A Stuart M 11, pp.216–17; S P Scotland 29 No. 14.

99
R A Cumberland 11/234.

100
Scots Magazine
, 1746, p.139.

101
R A Stuart M 11, p.217.

102
Fergusson,
Argyll in the ’45
, op.cit., p.142; Speck,
The Butcher
, p.123.

103
R A Cumberland 11/326.

104
Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.121.

105
The problem with the prince’s lungs ‘was one of the great reasons of his staying so much at Inverness afterwards, to the great detriment of his affairs in other places’ (
L M
, ii, p.269).

106
R A Cumberland 11/315.

107
L M
, ii, p.139.

108
M C P
, v, p.7.

109
M C P
, v, p.27.

110
L M
, i, p.355; Murray, ‘Marches’, p.103.

111
Scots Magazine
, 1746, p.91;
L M
, i, p.358.

112
Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.128;
Scots Magazine
, 1746, p.144.

113
Murray, ‘Marches’, p.111; Fraser,
Earls of Cromarty
, p.390.

114
Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.128;
M C P
, v, p.39.

115
M C P
, v, pp.41–4.

116
M C P
, v, pp.42–7;
L M
, ii, p.270.

117
L M
, i, p.356.

118
Murray, ‘Marches’, p.107.

119
L M
, ii, pp.91–2.

120
London Gazette
, 29 March–1 April 1746.

121
Scots Magazine
, 1746, p.142; Home’s
History
, p.204.

122
R A Cumberland 12/404.

123
S P Scotland 29 No.26; R A Cumberland 12/405; Elcho, p.404.

124
R A Cumberland 12/418.

125
Murray, ‘Marches’, p.110.

126
Elcho, p.404.

127
Tomasson,
Jacobite General
, p.198.

128
Ibid
.

129
Elcho, p.406.

130
Ibid
., pp.406–7.

131
Lord George Murray’s enemies later insinuated that he had not pressed the siege of Blair hard enough, for fear of damaging his brother’s property (Elcho, p.406). Cf. also R A Stuart M 11, p.238.

132
Atholl Correspondence
, op.cit., p.214.

133
Cf. Walpole to Mann, 21 March 1746: ‘The Duke complains extremely of the
loyal
Scotch, says he can get no intelligence and reckons himself more in an enemy’s country than when he was warring with the French in Flanders’ (
Walpole Correspondence
, 19, p.228).

134
Walpole Correspondence
, 19, pp.221–2.

135
Murray, ‘Marches’, p.110.

136
Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.122.

137
Scots Magazine
, 1746, p.145.

138
Daily Advertiser
, 26 March 1746;
L M
, ii, p.214.

139
R A Stuart, M 11, pp.221–2.

140
R A Stuart M 11, pp.224–5.

141
Elcho, p.401.

142
R A Stuart M 11, pp.225–6.

143
Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.125.

144
R A Cumberland 12/374,400.

145
L M
, ii, pp.213
et seq
.

146
Elcho, p.402.

147
R A Stuart M 11, p.228.

148
Scots Magazine
, 1746, p.145;
L M
, ii, p.216.

149
R A Stuart M 11, p.229;
L M
, ii, p.217; Elcho, p.402.

150
R A Cumberland 13/312.

151
L M
, ii, pp.91–2.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

1
Elcho, p.398.

2
Scots Magazine
, 1746, p.137; Murray, ‘Marches’, p.106.

3
Warren to James, 9 May 1746, R A Stuart 274/60.

4
O’Sullivan, p.146.

5
A S V, Avignone, 111 f.24.

6
It is interesting that Charles Edward himself seems to have had a conscious glimmering of all this. When he got up against his doctor’s advice, he declared himself a firm believer in psychosomatic
causation
: ‘people were sick only when they believed themselves to be’ (O’Sullivan, p.146).

7
R A Stuart 274/60;
M C P
, v, p.46.

8
R A Cumberland 12/249.

9
Elcho, p.414.

10
Chevalier de Johnstone, p.70; Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.121; O’Sullivan, p.114.

11
L M
, i, p.356;
Scots Magazine
, 1746, p.140.

12
L M
, ii, p.270;
Scots Magazine
, 1746, p.183; Elcho, pp.412–13.

13
R A Cumberland 13/311; Elcho, p.398.

14
R A Stuart M 11, pp.235–6.

15
Elcho, p.398; Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.130.

16
R A Cumberland 12/362.

17
R A Cumberland 12/401.

18
R A Cumberland 12/438; Elcho, p.414.

19
Memoirs of Strange and Lumisden
, i, p.51.

20
R A Cumberland 13/360.

21
Elcho, p.394.

22
R A Cumberland 12/328,360.

23
R A Cumberland 12/376–9.

24
O’Sullivan, pp.255–6.

25
Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.135.

26
L M
, i, p.350; ii, p.271;
Daily Advertiser
, 16 April 1746.

27
Murray, ‘Marches’, p.113; R A Cumberland 13/313.

28
R A Stuart M 11, pp.241–3.

29
L M
, ii, pp.271–5.

30
Elcho, p.419.

31
L M
, i, pp.86,260.

32
Murray, ‘Marches’, p.122.

33
Murray of Broughton’s efficiency can be gauged from the fact that, following his illness, his duties were divided between Sheridan (as the prince’s personal secretary) and Hay of Restalrig (as secretary to the army). Both Hay and Sheridan were disastrous failures.

34
Maxwell of Kirkconnell, pp.141–2.

35
R A Cumberland 13/326,366.

36
R A Stuart M 11, p.244.

37
R A Cumberland 13/351.

38
O’Sullivan, p.149.

39
Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p.136; Elcho, p.414.

40
R A Stuart M 11, p.244.

41
R A Cumberland 11/323.

42
Elcho, pp.417–18.

43
Murray, ‘Marches’, p.118.

44
R A Cumberland 13/355.

45
R A Stuart M 11, p.245.

46
L M
, i, p.359.

47
L M
, ii, p.273.

48
R A Cumberland 13/351.

49
Ibid
.

50
R A Cumberland 13/371.

51
Blaikie,
Origins
, pp.159–60.

52
Speck,
The Butcher
, p.131.

53
O’Sullivan, pp.148–9.

54
Chevalier de Johnstone, p.170.

55
L M
, ii, p.274; R A Cumberland 12/441.

56
R A Cumberland 13/360.

57
His own explanation to O’Heguerty is completely unconvincing, being a mere rehash of O’Sullivan’s arguments (R A Stuart M 11, p.248).

58
R A Stuart M 11, pp.248–9;
L M
, ii, p.275; Blaikie,
Origins
, p.415.

59
Scots Magazine
, 1746, p.184.

60
R A Cumberland 13/387.

61
R A Stuart M 11, p.251.

62
Elcho, p.421;
Spalding Club Miscellany
I (1841), p.343.

63
R A Cumberland 13/294.

64
L M
, i, p.66.

65
R A Cumberland 13/404.

66
Elcho, pp.422–3.

67
R A Stuart M 11, p.251.

68
Ibid
., p.253.

69
L M
, ii, p.275.

70
R A Cumberland 69/11.41.18.

71
L M
, ii, p.257.

72
R A Stuart M 11, p.258.

73
R A Cumberland 68/11.37.22.

74
Ibid
.

75
R A Stuart M 11, p.256.

76
L M
, i, p.256.

77
R A Cumberland 68/11.37.22.

78
Tomasson,
Jacobite General
, p.206.

79
L M
, ii, p.275.

80
Tayler,
Jacobite Miscellany
(‘Elcho’s Diary’), p.162.

81
L M
, i, p.360.

82
Elcho, p.427.

83
R A Cumberland 69/11.41.18.

84
R A Cumberland 68/11.37.22.

85
O’Sullivan, p.155.

86
Ibid
., p.156.

87
Elcho, p.427.

88
R A Cumberland 68/11.37.22.

89
L M
, i, p.258.

90
R A Cumberland 68/11.37.22.

91
Ibid
.

92
L M
, i, p.258.

93
L M
, i, p.264.

94
L M
, i, pp.258–9.

95
Ibid
.

96
L M
, ii, p.276.

97
Tomasson,
Jacobite General
, p.211.

98
R A Cumberland 68/11.37.22.

99
O’Sullivan, p.157.

100
R A Cumberland 68/11.37.22.

101
Ibid
.

102
L M
, i, p.260.

103
Speck,
The Butcher
, p.135.

104
According to Sir John MacDonald, Lord George rebuked him and O’Sullivan for the excessive noise their horses were making (Tayler,
Jacobite Miscellany
, p.66).

105
L M
, i, p.260.

106
R A Cumberland 68/11.37.22.

107
R A Cumberland 69/11.41.18.

108
L M
, i, p.67.

109
R A Cumberland 69/11.41.18.

110
L M
, ii, p.276.

111
Ibid
., pp.276–7.

112
R A Cumberland 69/11.41.18.

113
Ibid
.

114
L M
, ii, p.276.

115
R A Stuart M 11, p.262.

116
R A Cumberland 69/11.41.18.

117
R A Stuart M 11, p.258.

118
L M
, i, p.102.

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