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The companions of Pickle

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Aberdeen, Earl of, 105

Ailesbury, Lord, 58

Airlie, Earl of, 105

Albemarle, Lord, 115, 118, 119, 120

Alberoni, Cardinal, 14, 17

Amelot, his warning to Murray of Broughton, 73

Anderson, Mrs., of Arradoul, nurses Prince Charles, 85 note

Ardsheil, his estates, 274

Argyll, Duke of, at Sheriffmuir, 11;

cited, 106, 162, 226, 263, 271

Arkaig, Loch, French gold buried at. See French treasure

Association of Scottish Jacobites, the, foundation of, 32

Atholl, Duke of, his comparison of Pickle’s and Glengarry’s letters, 249

Atholl, James, Duke of, 82, 83, 106, 214

Atterbury, Bishop, urges proclamation of King James, on Anne’s death, 8;

conspiring, 22

Baillie, William, letter on Glengarry’s reconcilement to the Government, 226

Balhaldie (chief of the Macgregors), 72;

his Ossianic prophecies of a French invasion, 73;

in Paris, 73;

in Flanders, 75;

working against Murray of Broughton, 76;

cited, 32, 33, 34, 36, 222, 238, 239

Barisdale, Colonel (grandson of Macdonell of Barisdale), 124

Barisdale, Macdonell of, physical powers, 100;

marriage, 101;

fight with Cameron of Taask, 101;

arrested for theft, 102;

thief-catcher, 102;

cruelty, 103;

joins a confederacy for theft, 104;

devices for levying blackmail, 105;

captain of a ‘Watch,’ 105;

wadsetter of Glengarry’s, 106;

duel with Cluny, 106;

made a colonel by Charles, 107;

at Prestonpans, 107;

made a knight banneret, 108;

raising the clans, 108;

reducing the shires of Ross and Sutherland, 109;

letter to Lady Sutherland, 112;

too late for Culloden, 113;

and Lochiel, 114;

endeavours to seize Charles, 115;

gets a ‘protection,’ 115;

his protection rescinded, 115;

with his son put in irons by Charles, 116;

in a French prison, 117;

imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, 117;

his narrative to the Justice Clerk, 118-121;

Jacobite charges against him, 122;

dies in Edinburgh Castle, 123;

family seat, 178;

cited, 86, 87, 131, 133, 134, 138, 139, 188, 190, 195, 259

Barisdale, Young (son of Macdonell of Barisdale), in a French prison, 117;

a fugitive in the Highlands, 123;

takes the oaths, 124;

cited, 160, 190, 195, 196, 259

Barry, Dr., betrayed by Murray of Broughton, 75, 88

Barrymore, Lord, 36, 38, 74, 75

Beaufort, Duke of, 36, 38, 74, 75

Berwick, Duke of, urges James to join his adherents, 9;

then advises delay, 9;

detained by the Regent Orléans in France, 9

Blair (an agent of James), 229

Bland, General, Governor of Edinburgh Castle, 174, 198, 240, 241, 290, 291

Bolingbroke, 9

Brado, Mr. (Jew), 200

Breck, Allan, 194, 274

Bruce (Court Trusty), 217, 218, 240, 241, 291

Burt, Captain, 221, 263, 265

Cameron, Allan (brother of Glenevis), dies at Culloden, 149

Cameron, Allan, of Landavrae, 164

Cameron, Alexander, of Glenevis, 147;

genealogy, 148;

brutality of Cumberland’s men to his wife, 148;

Colonel Crawfurd’s attempt to arrest, 150;

surrenders to Crawfurd, 152;

believes that Young Glengarry gave information against him, 153;

in Edinburgh Castle, 156;

cited, 141, 142, 146, 168, 196, 229, 230, 232

Cameron, Angus, of Downan, 136, 146, 149, 151, 153, 154, 156, 159, 160, 196

Cameron, Archibald, of Dungallon, 133, 147, 150, 151

Cameron, Dr. Archibald (brother of Lochiel), entrusted with French treasure, 131;

buries a portion at Loch Arkaig, 131;

accuses, and is accused by, Young Glengarry of embezzlement, 140, 141;

vindicated in a letter from Douay, 142;

also by an informer, 143;

Cluny Macpherson’s alleged accounts, 144;

innocent of malversation of the Prince’s money, 146;

relationship to Lochiel, 147;

accusations from and of Young Glengarry about the French treasure, 228;

cited, 85, 86, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 159, 232

Cameron, Donald, 135

Cameron, Dugald (cowherd), 272

Cameron, Duncan, 156

Cameron, Evan, of Drumsallie, 145

Cameron, Mrs. Archibald, 148, 227

Cameron, Mrs. Jean, 138

Cameron of Lochiel. See Lochiel

Cameron of Taask, 101

Cameron of Torcastle, 141, 142

Cameron, Rev. John, 114

Cameron, Samuel (brother of Cameron of Glenevis; Major in Lochiel’s regiment in French service), 138;

cited, 149, 159

Cameron, Sergeant Mohr, hanged, 159;

cited, 194, 196

Campbell of Auchenbreck (father-in-law of Lochiel), 72, 73

Campbell of Glenure, murdered, 158, 161, 194, 274

Campbell of Lochnell, 227

Campbell, Sheriff, of Stonefield, 266

Carlyle, Dr., 142

Carte, the historian, 29, 37, 41

Caryl, Lady Elizabeth, 27

Cecil, Colonel, 73

Charles Edward, Prince, disliked by the Earl Marischal, 5;

repudiates assassination schemes, 22;

affected contempt for all religion, 25;

proposal to settle him in Corsica, 30;

offers to go alone with the Marischal to Scotland, 34;

living concealed in Paris, 35, 43;

anxious to join the French army in Flanders, 35;

implores the Earl Marischal to meet him at Venice, 40, 42;

breaks with Goring, 43;

declines to cashier his mistress, Miss Walkinshaw, 44;

his retreat in Flanders detected by the English, 44;

appeals to the Earl Marischal, 47;

his life of exile, 49;

absurd anecdote of his want of courage, 58;

story of his presence at the coronation of George III., 59;

his personal appearance, 70, 71;

Murray of Broughton’s attachment to him, 71;

Murray exposes Balhaldie and Sempil to him, 76;

avows his intention of visiting Scotland, 76;

warned against this intention, 76, 78, 79;

embarks for Scotland, 36, 80;

believes in Murray of Broughton, 81;

anger with Lord George Murray on the march southwards, 83, 84;

attacked with pneumonia, 85;

behaviour after Culloden, 85, 86;

kindness shown him by Mlle. Ferrand and Mme. de Vassé, 92-96;

makes Barisdale a colonel, 107;

warned by Sheridan against Barisdale, 115;

puts Barisdale and his son in a French prison, 116;

account of his escape from Skye, 127;

instructions about French treasure at Arkaig, 137;

directs the remainder of the French gold to be brought to France, 156;

deserted by his adherents, 171;

invitation from France, 180;

break up of his party in England, 208;

loyalty to his adherents, 223, 224;

interview with Young Glengarry in France, 235, 236;

collection made for him, 238;

cited, 286, 291, 292, 294, 295

Charteris, Colonel, 270 note

Churchill, General, 175

Clancarty, Lord, 36, 37

Clanranald, after Sheriffmuir, 13, 14;

cited, 86, 131, 227, 236, 256

Clement XI., 21

Cluny’s treasure. See French treasure

Cockburn, his carelessness with the Jacobite cypher, 75

Cole, 138

Condillac, Abbé, his tribute to Mlle. Ferrand and Madame de Vassé, 93, 94, 95

Conti, Princesse de, 19

Cope, General, 82, 83

Cotton, Sir John Hinde, 36, 74

Craigie, Lord-Advocate, 231

Crawfurd, Colonel (Governor of Fort William), 142;

arrests Fassifern, 149;

Glenevis surrenders to him, 152;

examines Glenevis concerning the French gold, 154, 155;

urges the ‘uprooting’ of Fassifern, 161;

induces Charles Stewart to lie about Fassifern’s claims, 169, 171;

cited, 229, 272

Creach (in the Irish Brigade), 180

Créquy, Madame de, pseudo-Memoirs of, 6;

her love affair with the Earl Marischal, 15;

fraudulent compilation of her Memoirs, 15

Cromarty, Lord, 108, 109, 111, 113

Crystal-gazing, 96 note

Culloden, 85

Cumberland, Duke of, 117, 118, 119, 121, 128, 189, 190

D’Alembert, quoted, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 18, 24, 34, 35, 47, 60, 61, 62, 64

D’Argens, 60, 62

D’Argenson, 34, 36, 37, 223

D’Avenant, threatens to bombard Genoa if the Keiths are not expelled, 21

Davies, Sergeant, murder of, 172, 173

Dawkins, Jemmy, 43

Dillon, General, 14, 22

Douglas (Sheriff-substitute), 150

Douglas, Sir John, 88

Drummond, Lord John (brother of Duke of Perth), 32, 33, 86, 131

Drummond, of Balhaldie. See Balhaldie

Drummond, Provost, 201, 202, 203, 204

Dumas the Younger, his dramatic use of an incident in Murray of Broughton’s career, 90

Dunbar, Lord, 26

Edgar (James’s secretary), 83, 71, 89, 228, 229, 230, 231

Elcho, Lord, 79, 86, 110, 131

Elibank, Lord, 232

Elibank Plot, the, 43, 231, 232

Emetté, Mlle. (Turkish captive), 31

Erskine, 117

Fassifern (Lochiel’s brother), 143;

examined as to the French treasure, 145;

arrested by Colonel Crawfurd, 149;

in Edinburgh Castle, 156;

denounced by Young Glengarry, 160;

Colonel Crawfurd’s accusations, 161;

charged with suborning Glenure’s murder, 162;

accused of forging deeds of Lochiel’s estate, 163;

evidence of an informer against him, 164;

protests against points in his indictment, 165;

petitions for bail, 166, 167;

bail refused, 168;

Charles Stewart on his claims, 169;

Macfarlane’s preparation of claims from missing deeds, 170;

found guilty of abstracting his own papers, 171;

‘uprooted,’ 171;

cited, 151, 196, 232, 235, 236

Faulkner, Sir Everard, 115, 116, 200, 211

Fergusson, Captain, 103, 195

Ferrand, Mademoiselle (Mlle. Luci), kindness to Charles, 92;

influence on Condillac, 93;

character, 94;

death, 95;

crystal-gazing in research of her identity, 96 note

Fire-charming, 24

Fitzjames, Duc de, 186

Fleury, Cardinal, death of, 73

Floyd, Captain, 41, 58

Floyd, David (son of Captain Floyd), 58, 59

Forbes, Bishop, 141, 148, 224, 231, 286

Forbes, Captain, 214

Forbes of Culloden, 106, 126, 127, 263, 269, 294

Fowler, Mr. (gentleman gaoler of the Tower), 89

Frazer, General (son of Old Lovat), 200

Frederick the Great, his esteem for the Earl Marischal, 4;

employs him, 40;

concerned at his health, 45;

asks the Marischal to find him a good French cook, 46;

foresees the oncoming of the Seven Years’ War, 46;

loses Marshal Keith, 50;

sends the Marischal to Spain, 51;

surety with George II. for the Marischal’s conduct, 51;

patronises Rousseau, 56;

tampers with the Jacobites, 238

French treasure, in aid of Charles’s expedition, 129;

Murray of Broughton’s and Archibald Cameron’s disposition of it, 181;

burial of a portion in the garden of Mrs. Menzies of Culdairs, 132;

burial of major part at Loch Arkaig, 132;

intelligence sent to Colonel Napier about, 133-139;

Cameron’s accusation of Young Glengarry, 140;

Glengarry charges Cluny and the Doctor with embezzlement, 140, 141;

Cameron of Torcastle’s statement, 141;

a letter from Douay, 142;

evidence of an Informer, 143;

Cluny Macpherson’s intromissions, 144;

Fassifern’s admissions, 145;

Glenevis under examination concerning, 154, 155;

Young Glengarry’s dealings with it, 155, 156;

causes dissensions among the clans, 156;

Knoydart and Lochaber demoralised by it, 194

Froullay, Mlle. de. See Créquy, Mme. de

Gardiner, Mr. (an agent of Crawfurd’s), 150

Gartmore MSS., 263

Gask, the Laird of, 141

Geoffrin, Madame, 51

George II., pardons the Earl Marischal, 51

George III., story of Charles’s presence at his coronation, 59

Glendarule, 17

Glenevis. See Cameron of Glenevis

Glengarry, Æneas (brother of Young Glengarry), 201, 221, 260

Glengarry, Duncan, 260

Glengarry of Killiecrankie, 256

Glengarry, Old (father of Pickle), 82, 114, 116, 181, 190, 210, 224, 228, 266

Glengarry, Young. See Pickle

Glenshiel, the conflict at, 18, 19

Gordon, Admiral, 26

Gordon, Duke of, 105, 274, 275, 276

Gordon of Glenbucket, 86, 210, 274, 275

Gordon, Sir Thomas, of Earlstoun, 75

Goring, Henry, 40, 43, 48

Grant, Major, 287

Grant, Miss Marjory (daughter of Sir Ludovick Grant of Dalvey), 261

Grant, Mrs., 85

Grant of Grant, 106

Grey (English Jacobite), 22

Hamilton, Duke of, 71, 72;

contributes monetary aid to Charles’s cause, 79;

accepts Charles’s commission, 81

Harrison, Father, 132, 135

Hay, John, of Restalrig, 21, 85, 86

Hay of Drumelzier, 72

Hay, William, cited, 26

Helvetius, 25, 58, 59

Highlanders, character of, 97

Highlands, the, the old times and the new in, 254;

deer driving, 254;

poverty, 255;

ignorance, 256;

a Highland home in 1747, 257;

emigration of the clans, 257;

the Glengarry estate a typical instance of clan holding, 258-262;

evidence concerning, 263, 264;

poetry, 264;

Strathnaver crofters, 265;

living cows’ blood mixed with oatmeal for food, 265, 283;

hardness of living, 265;

rents, 266;

the truck system, 267;

thriftless agricultural methods, 268;

tyranny of the tacksmen, 269;

Forbes of Culloden’s leases, 270;

customary services and ‘casualties,’ 271, 272;

rent paid in kind, 271;

commutation of services for money, 272;

copy of a formal rent, 273 note;

evictions, 273;

the eviction of the Macphersons from Badenoch, 274;

the Mackenzies as landlords, 275;

the Camerons as tenants, 276;

evictions a part of clan warfare, 277, 278;

obligations of the chiefs to the necessitous, 278, 279;

times of scarcity, 280;

blackmail, 280, 281;

the creed of communism, 281;

association of Sutherland farmers to suppress sheep-stealing, 282;

attitude of landlords, 284;

clan affection becomes clan hatred, 284;

old times contrasted with new, 285

Hodgson, Captain, 127

Holderness, Lord, 51

Holker (of Ogilvie’s regiment), 229

Howard, G., letter on Barisdale’s protection, 115

Hume, David, 55;

letter from Marischal concerning Rousseau, 56;

disseminates an anecdote reflecting on the courage of Charles, 58;

letters from Marischal, 59-64

Hunter, Mrs., of Polmood, 87

Huntly, 11, 13

Ibrahim (the Marischal’s Turk), 31

Innes, George (head of the Scots College), 179

Innes, Thomas (historian), 179

Inverness, Lord, 26

Izard, Captain, 124, 195

James (the Third, Chevalier de St. George), urged to quit France and join his adherents, 9;

his wintry welcome at Perth, 11;

after Sheriffmuir, 12;

escapes from Scotland, 12;

at Avignon, 14;

his assassination planned by Stair, 20;

his bride, 20;

endeavours to relieve his destitute followers, 21;

pension from Spain, 26;

at the tomb of Clementina, 28;

his trust in Balhaldie, 33;

believes in ‘lying still,’ 39;

opposed to desperate ventures, 49;

deserted by the Earl Marischal, 52;

announces the French King’s resolution to help him, 75;

appealed to about the French treasure, 140;

his name forged by Young Glengarry, 155;

cited, 27, 181, 182, 222, 226, 228, 230, 275

Johnson, Dr., quoted, 259, 266

Johnston, Captain, 160

Johnstone, Chevalier, 107, 109, 178

Jones, Captain, 149

Kaunitz, Count, 238

Keith, George, Earl Marischal of Scotland, his place in contemporary history, 1;

ancestry, 2;

political views, 2, 3;

personal character, 4;

date of birth, 5;

parentage, 6;

Colonel and disciplinarian, 6;

neglects the chance on Anne’s death of proclaiming King James, 8;

urges James to join his adherents, 9;

induces his brother James to join the Jacobite cause, 10;

at Sheriffmuir, 11;

remains with the defeated army, 13;

ships to France, 13;

in Spain, 14;

legendary romance about Mlle. de Froullay (Créquy), 15;

portrait in 1716, 16;

at the Lewes with a Spanish force, 17;

in Holland, 19;

in Rome, 20;

communicates the Glenshiel fiasco to Alberoni, 20;

vicissitudes, 21;

friendship with the Duchess of Medina Sidonia, 24;

investigates fire-charming, 24;

religious ideas, 25;

receives from James the Order of the Thistle, 27;

dislike of Prince Charles, 5, 27;

finds the Jacobite Court at Rome no place for an honest man, 28;

at Avignon, 28;

modesty of his requirements, 29;

on the hanging of Porteous, 30;

at St. Petersburg, 30;

Turkish captives in his custody, 31;

impatient with Sempil and Balhaldie, 32;

accused of being lukewarm, 33;

appointed General of a diversion in Scotland, 34;

asked by Charles to set forth with him in a sailing boat, 34;

accused of stopping the Dunkirk expedition, 35;

tries to influence Louis XV. for French aid, 36, 37;

at odds with Sempil, 37;

averse from Charles’s unsupported expedition, 38;

disappears from the diplomatic scene, 39;

at Venice, 39;

at Berlin, 40;

in the service of Frederick the Great, 40;

distrust of George Kelly, 40, 41;

Frederick’s ambassador to Versailles, 43;

tolerance of the Elibank Plot, 43;

breaks with Charles, 43, 44;

letter from his brother, Marshal Keith, 45;

Frederick’s generous offers, 46, 47;

Prince Charles appeals to him, 47;

seeks pardon from the English Government, 48;

his judgment of Charles too severe, 49;

death of his brother, 50;

squabble with Keith’s mistress, 50;

sent by Frederick to Spain, 51;

succeeds to Lord Kintore’s estate, 51;

pardoned by George II., 51;

visits England,52;

Provost of Kintore, 52;

dislikes Scotland and returns to Neufchâtel, 53;

acquaintance with J. J. Rousseau, 53;

leaves Neufchâtel and secures Rousseau an asylum in England, 55, 56;

at Potsdam, 58;

disseminates a scandalous anecdote about Charles, 58, 59;

letters to Hume, 59-64;

his life at Berlin, 64;

attachment to Frederick, 65;

character, tastes, and habits, 66;

death, 67;

cited, 208, 223, 234, 236, 238

Keith, Marshal James, joins the Jacobite cause, 10;

account of Sheriffmuir, 11;

escapes to France, 13, 14;

reception by Mary of Modena, 14;

in Spain, 14, 17;

meets Tullibardine in Paris, 17;

brings a Spanish force to Scotland, 17;

defeated by the English forces, 18;

in Holland, 19;

in Rome, 20;

vicissitudes, 21;

ill in Paris, 24;

enters the Russian service, 26;

wounded, 30;

his Turkish captives, 31;

in the service of Frederick, 40;

his Livonian mistress, 42;

letter to the Earl Marischal, 45;

his death, 50

Keith, Sir Robert Murray, 67

Kelly, Rev. George (one of the Seven Men of Moidart), imprisoned in the Tower, 19;

escapes therefrom, 29;

cited, 23, 30, 34 note, 38, 40, 41, 58, 121

Kennedy, Major, concerned with the French treasure, 86, 130, 132, 134, 138, 140, 154

Keppoch, 100

Keppoch, Lady, 137

Kingsburgh, 128

Kintore, Lord, 51

Kirk, Rev. Mr., 109

Knyphausen, 45, 51

Lambert, Colonel, 214

Law, founder of the Mississippi scheme, 19

Layer, his mob-plot, 23;

hanged, 23

Leslie (priest), 227

Lichfield, Earl of, 36

Liria, Duke de (son of the Duke of Berwick), 17

Lismore (James’s agent), 226, 227

Loch Arkaig, French treasure buried at. See French treasure

Lochgarry, in a thievish confederacy, 104;

accused of treachery, 114;

handling French treasure, 140;

wadsetter of Old Glengarry’s lands of Cullachy, 210-212;

possessions forfeited to the Crown, 211;

in Edinburgh with Pickle, 240,

cited, 86, 153, 172, 188, 190, 232, 235, 290, 291, 292, 294

Lochiel (head of the Cameron clan), extracts from Macleod of Skye a promise to raise his clan, 77;

believes every man of honour should rise, 81;

determines to wage guerilla war after Culloden, 86;

clan relationships, 147;

cited, 32, 72, 100, 107, 109, 132, 130, 136, 141, 145, 147, 188, 222, 223, 268, 272, 286

Lockhart, Alexander (counsel), 173, 174

Lockhart of Carnwath, 6, 72, 86

Lockhart of Carnwath (the younger), 131

Loudon, Lord, 109, 110, 119, 120

Louis XIV., death of, 9

Louis XV., induced to adopt the Jacobite cause, 34, 36

Lovat, Lord, one of the ‘Association,’ 72;

his betrayal of the Duke of Beaufort, 75;

after Culloden, 86, 87;

cited, 32, 99, 100, 108, 135, 257

Lovat, Master of, 108, 113, 261

Luci, Mademoiselle. See Ferrand, Mademoiselle

Lynch, Captain (Irish Jacobite), 187, 188, 189, 190

Macdonald, Æneas (banker), 223, 228

Macdonald, Alexander Bain, trial of, for murder of Sergeant Davies, 172, 173, 174

Macdonald, Angus (of the Clanranald family), 178, 179

Macdonald, Captain Allan, of Knock, in Sleat, 195, 196, 197

Macdonald, Flora, assists Charles to escape, 127

Macdonald, Lady Margaret, of Sleat, connives at Charles escape from Skye, 127, 128

Macdonald, Major, 241

Macdonald of Morar, 124

Macdonald, Sir Alexander, of Sleat, 18;

Jacobite and Hanoverian, 126;

letter to Cumberland on Pretender’s movements, 127;

epigram on his death, 128;

cited, 118, 119, 120, 121, 223

Macdonell, Archibald (son of Barisdale), 107

Macdonell, Colonel John, of Knoydart, 176;

early life, 176;

his Memoirs, 177;

family and estate, 178;

educated in Rome, 178;

an adventure at Toulon, 179;

Creach’s attempt at robbery and his repulse, 180;

introduced to King James, 181;

presented with a sword and a prediction, 181;

horrified by the ideas of his comrades, 181;

his baptism of fire, 182;

wounded in battle with the Austrians, 183, 184;

goes in aid of Charles to Scotland, 185, 186;

arrives after Culloden, 186;

robbed of part of money destined for Charles, 187;

reaches Loch Arkaig, 188;

meets Barisdale, 188;

hands remainder of money to Murray of Broughton, 189;

makes for Knoydart, 189;

adventure while in search of money stolen by Colin Dearg, 190-192;

confronts Colin Dearg on the subject, 193, 194;

arrested by Captain Fergusson, 195;

denounces his cousin Captain Allan Macdonald, 195;

imprisoned in Fort William, 196;

released, 196;

challenges Macdonald of Knock, 196;

in America, 197

Macdonell, Dr., of Kylles, 195

Macdonell of Barisdale. See Barisdale

Macdonell, Ranald, 197

Macdonnell, Æneas (brother of Young Glengarry), 201, 221, 260

Macdonnell, Alastair Ruadh (Young Glengarry). See Pickle

Macdonnell, Dr. (Young Glengarry’s uncle), 124

Macdonnell, General (of the Antrim family), 181, 182, 183, 197

Macdonnell, Isobel (Young Glengarry’s sister), 221

Macdonnell, John (Spanish John), 160

Macdonnell, Miles, 185

Macdonnell of Scotus, 109

Macfarlane (Fassifern’s lawyer), 163, 170

Macgregor, James Mohr, 82, 98, 100, 107, 175, 238, 239

MacIan, Angus, 152, 153

Mackenzie, Colin Dearg, of Laggy, 187, 188, 191;

accused by Colonel John Macdonell of robbery of the Prince’s money, 193

Mackenzie, Mrs. (niece of Colin Dearg), 188

Mackenzie of Dundonell, 193, 194

MacKinnon, 103, 128

Mackintosh, Fraser, quoted on Highland history, 116, 118, 215, 261, 264, 272, 273, 275, 277, 282

Mackintosh, The, 106

Maclean, Sir Hector, arrested in Scotland, 79;

cited, 223

Macleod, Malcolm, of Raasay, 126, 127

Macleod, Norman, 294, 295

Macleod of Raasay, letters of, 246

Macleod of Skye, 77;

sends his forces to join Loudon’s in Hanoverian service, 77;

turns his coat, 81;

Young Glengarry asks him to join in a loan, 205;

cited, 88, 206, 207, 214, 223

Macleod (Young) of Neuck, 132

Macnaughten, John, 79, 80

Macpherson, Cluny, his watch or safeguard of followers, 105;

joins Prince Charles, 106;

duel with Barisdale, 106;

alleged copy of his intromissions, 144;

cited, 98, 99, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 143, 154, 156, 158, 230

Macpherson of Brechachie, 136, 140, 154, 161, 162

Macrimmon (Macleod of Skye’s piper), 77

Mar, Earl of, defeat of, at Sheriffmuir, 10, 11, 12;

cited, 22

Mary of Modena, 14

Maxwell of Kirkconnell, 76, 81, 84

McDonald, Donald, 127

McDonell, Donald (Younger), of Scotus, 211

McFarlane, John, W.S., 143, 145

McKenzie, Lieut. Murdoch, 191

McKenzie, Major William, of Kilcoy, 191

McKenzie of Torridon, 192

McLachlan, Alexander, 134

McLeod, Alexander, 134

McLeod, Rory, letter from Young Glengarry, 201

Medina Sidonia, Duchess of, 24

Menzies, Mrs., of Culdairs, 132

Menzies of Culdairs, treasure buried in his garden, 90

Meston (Jacobite wit and poet), 6

Millar, Mr., on the handwriting of Pickle and Young Glengarry, 247-249

Mitchell, Sir Andrew, 51, 52, 53

Montesquieu, 92, 93

Morar, Young, 160

Morgan, 21, 22

Murray, George Siddons (great-grandson of Murray of Broughton), 70

Murray, John, of Broughton (traitor), connected with the Association of Scottish Jacobites, 32;

faithful to Prince Charles Edward, 69;

his ‘Memorials,’ 70;

birth, family, and education, 70;

opinion of the Prince’s personal appearance, 70;

at Traquair, 71;

Scottish correspondent of Edgar, 71;

Jacobite organiser, 72;

his associates, 72;

reception in Paris, 73;

feud with Balhaldie, 32, 73;

betrays names of English leaders, 74;

denounces Balhaldie and Sempil to Charles, 76;

impolicy of his methods of securing adherents to Charles, 77;

on Macleod’s treason, 78;

dissuades Charles’s visits to Scotland without an armed force, 78, 79;

his self-justification, 80;

believes in his own military skill, 81;

suspicious of Lord George Murray, 81, 82, 83;

on the march southwards with Charles, 84;

illness, 85;

after Culloden, 85;

stands by Lochiel, 86;

in charge of money for Charles, 188, 189;

arranges for the burial of the French gold, 86;

captured, 87;

justifies personal honesty in money matters, 88;

character of his confessions, 88;

betrays the secret of the Arkaig treasure, 88, 130;

accepted as King’s evidence, 89;

pardoned, 89;

tries to provoke Traquair to a duel, 89;

sells Broughton, 90;

dies in a madhouse, 90;

summary of his character, 91;

cited, 27, 101, 102 note, 114, 126, 221, 222, 229, 294

Murray, Lord George, defeated at Glenshiel, 18;

represented by Murray of Broughton as a traitor to Charles, 81;

his loyalty, 82;

equivocal action, 83;

general-in-chief of Charles’s expeditionary forces, 84;

anger with Charles after Culloden, 85;

cited, 109

Murray, Mrs. (wife of Murray of Broughton), 88, 89

Murray of Philiphaugh, the descendants of, 70

Murray, Sir David (father of Murray of Broughton), 70

Murray, William (brother of Lord George), 82

Mylne, Captain, 160

Napier, Colonel, A.D.C. to the Duke of Cumberland, 115, 133

Needham, 63

Newcastle, Duke of, 159, 206, 209, 214, 218, 238, 290, 291, 292, 293

Neynho, 23

North (English Jacobite), 22

Ogilby, Lord, 286

O’Niel, a follower of Charles, 85

Orléans, Regent, intrigues in Hanoverian interest, 9

Orme, Mr., W.S., 200, 203, 205

Ormonde, Duke of, action on Anne’s death, 8;

cited, 14, 17, 18, 23, 28, 34, 75

O’Rourk, Mr., of Tipperary, 180

Orrery, Lord, 22, 36, 74

O’Sullivan, a follower of Charles, 85

Oxford, English Jacobite, 22

Parker, Lord Chief Justice, the Earl Marischal’s letter to, 7

Pelham, Henry, 198, 206, 207, 208, 232, 235, 237

Percheron, M., 15

Perth, Duke of, resigns the command of Charles’s expeditionary forces, 84;

wounded, 86;

cited, 78, 79, 106, 109, 131

Peterborough, Lord, 14

Pickle (the spy; Young Glengarry), obtains from Murray of Broughton information of the Loch Arkaig treasure, 89;

Leslie’s aid, 89;

his alleged copy of Cluny Macpherson’s Intromissions, 144;

treachery to Glenevis, 153;

forges King James’s name, 155;

permitted by the Government to reside in London, 155, 156;

denounces Fassifern, 160;

treatment of his wadsetters, 198;

Young Lochgarry’s intimacy with, 199;

letters to Mr. Orme, W. S., on business, 200, 203, 205;

letter to Rory McLeod on family matters, 201;

his niece, 203;

letter to the Chief of the Macleods asking him to go conjunct with him in a loan, 205;

writes to the Duke of Newcastle complaining, 206;

Pelham’s promise to abate demands on his estate, 207;

those promises never fulfilled, 208;

series of coincidences in Pickle’s fortunes and those of Glengarry, 208;

their uniformity of bad spelling, 209, 214;

Young Glengarry’s estate troubles, 210-213;

remonstrance to Colonel Trapaud, 213;

illness and bad sight, 214;

his offer to raise a regiment coincident with Young Glengarry’s, 214;

Young Glengarry’s will, 214;

the Pickle letters, 217;

his close relations with Henry Pelham, 217;

coincidence of his father’s death with that of Old Glengarry, 218;

claims to be chief of the Macdonnells, 218;

the clue to his identity with Glengarry, 219;

his career identical with that of Glengarry, 219;

suggestion that Glengarry was personated by an unknown intimate calling himself Pickle, 220;

his early life, 221;

usage by his stepmother, 221;

in France, 222;

meets Murray of Broughton, 222, 223;

in the Tower, 223;

released, 224;

attempts reconciliation with the Government, 225;

asks James for a colonelcy vacant by the death of Lochiel, 226;

at the nadir of his fortunes, 227;

offers his services ‘in any shape’ to the English Government, 227;

helps himself to the treasure of Cluny, 228;

earliest charge of treachery against Glengarry, 229;

Edgar warned against him, 229;

his real situation in 1751, 229, 230;

account of the Elibank Plot, 231;

he and Young Glengarry both receive remittances from Baron Kennedy, 231;

Pelham’s personal knowledge of him, 232;

date of his illness and that of Young Glengarry, 232;

points shared in common by Pickle and Glengarry, 233;

a spy’s evidence, 233-235;

interview with Charles in France, 235;

Young Glengarry in France same date, 236;

mutual promises from Pelham, broken after Pelham’s death, 237;

consulted by Government on Frederick’s tampering with Jacobites, 238;

the hypothesis that Pickle personated Glengarry, 239;

hurries to Edinburgh on the death of Old Glengarry, 240;

Young Glengarry near at hand on his father’s death, 241;

impersonation physically impossible, 243;

duns the Duke of Newcastle, 243, 244;

internal evidence of identity of authorship of Pickle’s and Glengarry’s letters, 245, 246;

Mr. Millar’s criticism, 247-249;

the Duke of Atholl’s conclusion, 249;

summary of the case proving identity, 250-253;

two letters incriminatory and confirmatory, 289-294;

cited, 43, 76, 77, 78, 79, 140, 142, 143, 190, 199, 256, 286

Pitsligo, Lord, 83, 265

Podewils, Count, 45

Porteous, hanged by the mob, 30

‘Prescot,’ suspected of intending to murder James, 14

Pringle, Sir John, 58

Reay, Lord, 109

Rob Roy, letter to General Wade, 98

Robison of Ballnicaird, 201, 202, 203, 204

Ross of Balnagoun, 109

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, meeting with and impressions of Marischal, 53-55;

wants to write the history of the Keiths, 55;

cited, 4, 5, 40, 41, 66

Saxe, Marshal, 34

Scott, Sir Walter, 97, 172

Scott (Sir Walter’s father), his sentiment regarding John Murray of Broughton, 69, 90

Scotus (Old), 190

Scotus (Young), 86

Seaforth, 11, 17, 18, 106

Sempil, Lord, 32, 36, 37, 38, 76, 222

Sheridan, Sir Thomas (Prince Charles’s tutor), 58, 85, 86, 108, 131

Skeldoich, Mr. (minister), 276

Small, Ensign, 117, 140, 159, 172, 173, 174, 285

Sobieska, Clementina, 20

Spence, cited, 8

Stewart, Alexander (solicitor), 165, 166, 167

Stewart, Charles (writer in Banavie), 160, 166, 167, 168, 169, 171

Stewart, General, 199, 239, 264, 281, 282, 283, 284

Stewart, James, hanged for the murder of Campbell of Glenure, 159;

cited, 274, 275

Stewart, John Roy, 86

Stewart of Appin, 77, 78, 166, 167, 169

Stonor, cited, 89, 90

Strathnaver crofters, bleeding their cows for sustenance, 265

Sutherland, Earl of, 107, 109, 110, 113

Sutherland, Countess of, letter to the Young Pretender, 110;

Barisdale’s letter to her, 112;

her clever diplomacy, 113

Stuart, Charles (Fassifern’s agent), 196

Tacksmen, 259, 268, 269, 282

Talmond, Madame de, Charles’s mistress, 95

Tencin, Cardinal, 73

Terig (or Clerk), Duncan, 172, 173, 174

Thompson, Sir E. Maunde, 216

Threipland, Sir Stewart, 132

Thurot, M., 52

‘Toboso,’ the Order of, 26

Tollendal, Lally, 186

Trant, Mr., 238

Trapaud, Colonel (Governor of Fort Augustus), 198, 213, 218, 241, 260

Traquair, Lord, feebleness of his Jacobite sentiment, 71;

one of the ‘Association,’ 72;

responsible for Scotland south of Forth, 73;

in London, 73, 74;

skulks from the rising, 77;

fails to transmit the warning to Charles against his visit to Scotland, 78, 79;

causes Murray of Broughton to be arrested for breach of peace, 90;

cited, 32, 88, 223

Tullibardine, William (brother of Lord George Murray), 17, 18, 82

Urquhart, Colonel, Scottish correspondent of Edgar, 71

Vassé, Madame de (La Grande Main), 64, 92, 93

Vaughan, Gwynne, 289, 292

Villettes, Arthur, 48

Voltaire, 42, 47, 61

Wade, General, 98

Wadsets, 260

Walkinshaw, Miss, Charles Edward’s mistress, 44

Wall, General, 48

Wedderburn, of Gosford, 145

Wedderburn, Thomas, 107

Wemyss, Earl of, 78, 110

White, Major, 225

Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, 42

Wingfeild, Thomas (trooper), 7

Wodrow, cited, 10

Wogan, Charles, 20

Wogan, Nicholas, 21, 22, 23, 224

Wynne, Sir Watkin Williams, 36, 38, 74, 75

York, Duke of, 38, 185, 186, 188

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