PUBLICATIONS

OF THE

SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY

SECOND SERIES

VOL.
II

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ORIGINS OF THE ’FORTY-FIVE

March 1916

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Edited by
WALTER BIGGAR BLAIKIE
LL.D.

EDINBURGH

Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society

1916

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I desire to express my thanks to the Government of the French Republicfor permission to make transcripts and to print selections from StatePapers preserved in the National Archives in Paris; to the Earl ofAncaster for permission to print the Drummond Castle Manuscript ofCaptain Daniel’s Progress; to the Earl of Galloway for Cardinal York’sMemorial to the Pope; to His Grace the Archbishop of St. Andrews forthe use of papers elucidating the action of the Roman Catholic clergyin 1745; to Miss Grosett-Collins, who kindly lent me Grossett familypapers; to Mrs. G. E. Forbes and Mr. Archibald Trotter of Colinton forprivate papers of the Lumisden family; to M. le Commandant Jean Colinof the French Army (author of Louis XV. et les Jacobites) forseveral valuable communications, and to Martin Haile for similar help.

To my cousin, Miss H. Tayler, joint author of The Book of theDuffs, I am indebted for transcripts of papers in the FrenchArchives in Paris as well as for information from Duff family papers;to Miss Maria Lansdale for the transcript of the report of the Marquisd’Eguilles to Louis XV.; to Dr. W. A. Macnaughton, Stonehaven,for copies of the depositions referring to the evasion of Sir JamesSteuart; and to Miss Nairne, Salisbury, for the translation of CardinalYork’s Memorial.

I have also to acknowledge general help from the Hon. Evan Charteris;Mr. William Mackay, Inverness; Mr. J. K. Stewart, secretary of theStewart Society; Mr. J. R. N. Macphail, K.C.; Mr. J. M. Bulloch,author of[Pg vi] The House of Gordon; Dr. Watson, Professor of CelticHistory, Edinburgh; Mr. P. J. Anderson, Aberdeen University Library;Colonel Lachlan Forbes; the Rev. Archibald Macdonald of Kiltarlity; andthe Rev. W. C. Flint of Fort Augustus.

I should be ungrateful if I did not make acknowledgment of theinformation I have received and made use of from five modernbooks—James Francis Edward, by Martin Haile; The KingOver the Water, by A. Shield and Andrew Lang; The JacobitePeerage, by the Marquis de Ruvigny; The History of ClanGregor, by Miss Murray Macgregor; and The Clan Donald, by A.and A. Macdonald.

Lastly, I have to thank Mr. W. Forbes Gray for kindly reading andrevising proofs and for other assistance; and Mr. Alex. Mill, who hasmost carefully prepared the Index and given me constant help in manyways.

W. B. B.