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Craig Brown's History of Ettrick Forest. The French, in 1759, meant to send a false Charles to Ireland with Thurot. Another appeared at Civita Vecchia about 1752. The tradition of Roderick Mackenzie, who died under English bullets, crying 'You have slain your Prince,' is familiar. We shall meet other pseudo-Charles's.
{17a} Ewald, i. 41.
{17b} Doc.u.mentos Ineditos. Madrid. 1889. Vol. xciii. 18.
{18a} Voyages de Montesquieu. Bordeaux, 1894. p. 250.
{18b} Letters of De Brosses, as translated by Lord Stanhope, iii. 72.
{18c} See authorities in Ewald, i. 48-50.
{19a} Ewald, ii. 30. Scott's Journal, i. 114.
{19b} Dennistoun's Life of Strange, i. 63, and an Abbotsford ma.n.u.script.
{20a} Stuart Papers, in the Queen's Library. Also the Lockhart Papers mention the wounding of the horse.
{20b} Life and Correspondence of David Hume. Hill Burton, ii. 464- 466.
{21a} Jacobite Memoirs. Lord Elcho's MS. Journal. Ewald, i. 77.
{21b} State Papers Domestic. 1745. No. 79.
{21c} Genuine Memoirs of John Murray of Broughton. La Spedizione di Carlo Stuart.
{23a} Treasury Papers. 1745. No. 214. First published by Mr.
Ewald, i. 215.
{23b} Jacobite Memoirs, p. 32.
{24a} Chambers Rebellion of 1745, i. 71. The authority is 'Tradition.'
{24b} I have read parts of Forbes's ma.n.u.script in the Advocates'
Library, but difficulties were made when I wished to study it for this book.
{25a} D'Argenson's Memoires.
{25b} This gentleman died at Carlisle in 1745, according to Bishop Forbes. Jacobite Memoirs, p. 4.
{26a} Stuart MSS. in Windsor Castle.
{26b} Stuart Papers. Browne's History of the Highland Clans, iii.
481.
{27a} James to Lismore. June 23, 1749. Stuart MSS.
{28a} Stanhope. Vol. iii. Appendix, p. xl.
{28b} Jacobite Memoirs.
{30a} The Kelly of Atterbury's Conspiracy, long a prisoner in the Tower. It is fair to add that Bulkeley, Montesquieu's friend, defended Kelly.
{31a} Stuart Papers. Browne, iii. 433. September 13, 1745.
{32a} Macallester's book is ent.i.tled A Series of Letters, &c.
London, 1767.
{32b} Wogan to Edgar. Stuart Papers, 1750.
{33a} D'Argenson, iv. 316-320.
{33b} Stair Papers.
{33c} Letters in the State Paper Office. S. P. Tuscany. Walton sends to England copies of the letters of James's adherents in Paris; Horace Mann sends the letters of Townley, whom James so disliked.
{35a} D'Argenson's Memoires, v. 98, fol.
{35b} Ibid. v. 183.
{36a} Published by the Duc de Broglie, in Revue d'Histoire Diplomatique. No. 4. Paris, 1891.
{37a} Browne, iv. 36-38.
{38a} Genuine Copies of Letters, &c. London, 1748.
{38b} An Account of the Prince's Arrival in France, p. 66. London, 1754.
{39a} There are letters of Bulkeley's to Montesquieu as early as 1728. Voyages de Montesquieu, p. xx. note 3.
{40a} In his work on Madame de Pompadour (p. 109), M. Capefigue avers that he discovered, in the archives of the French Police, traces of an English plot to a.s.sa.s.sinate Prince Charles; the Jacobites believed in such attempts, not without reason, as we shall prove.
{41a} Walton. S. P. Tuscany. No. 55.
{43} Memoires, iv. 322.
{46a} See Le Secret du Roi, by the Duc de Broglie.
{46b} Tales of the Century, p. 25.
{46c} Pol. Corresp. of Frederick the Great, v. 114. No. 2,251.
{46d} Ibid. vi. 125. No. 3,086.
{49a} D'Argenson, v. 417. March 19, 1749. D'Argenson knew more than the police.
{50a} Stuart Papers. Browne, iv. p. 51.
{51a} Memoires, v. 417.
