The Lyon in Mourning, Vol. 1: or a collection of speeches, letters, journals, etc. relative to the affairs of Prince Charles Edward StuartForbes, Robert
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The Lyon in Mourning, Vol. 1: or a collection of speeches, letters, journals, etc. relative to the affairs of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
Forbes, Robert
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788; Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 -- Sources
[169] The passage in brackets is scored through as delete [ED.]
Lady Inches said it was really Loudon's piper that the stout
blacksmith killed, and that MacIntosh's house is seven or eight miles
from Inverness. When Lady MacIntosh was to be brought a prisoner into
Inverness, a great body of men, consisting of several regiments, were
sent upon the command, and when she was leaving her own house the
dead-beat was used by [Sidenote: _fol._ 381.] the drummers. In the
commands[170] marching from and to Inverness the horses trode many
corpses under foot, and the generous-hearted Lady MacIntosh behoved
to have the mortification of viewing this shocking scene.
ROBERT FORBES, A.M.
[170] Here begins volume third of Bishop Forbes's Manuscript
Collection. It is entitled: 'THE LYON IN MOURNING, or a Collection
(as exactly made as the iniquity of the times would permit) of
Speeches, Letters, Journals, etc. relative to the affairs, but more
particularly, the dangers and distresses of.... Vol. 3d. 1747.
_Cui modo parebat subjecta Britannia Regi,
Jactatus terris, orbe vagatur inops!_
On the inside of the front board of volume 3d are adhibited--1.
Piece of the Prince's garter-ribbon. 2. Piece of red velvet, anent
which on back of title-page is as follows: (by Mr. Robert Chambers)
The small piece of red velvet on the inside of the board was part
of the ornaments of the Prince's sword-hilt. While on his march to
England he rested on a bank at Faladam, near Blackshiels, where the
young ladies of Whitburgh, sisters to his adherent, Robert Anderson,
presented some refreshments to him and his men. On being requested
by one of these gentlewomen for some keepsake, he took out his
pen-knife and cut a portion of velvet and buff leather from the hill
of his sword, which he gave to her with his usual courtesy, and
which is still (1836) preserved at Whitburgh. The above piece was
cut from the larger fragment, and presented to me by Miss Anderson
of Whitburgh.--R. C. 3. Piece of Bettie Burk's gown, sent by Mrs.
MacDonald of Kingsburgh, according to promise, f. 152. 4. Piece of
apron-string, received from Miss Flora MacDonald. R. F. saw the apron
on that occasion and had it on him. On the inside of the backboard of
volume 3d are 5. Pieces of tartan, explained as under: The above are
pieces of the outside and inside of that identical waistcoat which
MacDonald of Kingsburgh gave to the Prince, when he laid aside the
women's cloaths at the edge of a wood, f. 1434. The said waistcoat
being too fine for a servant, the Prince exchanged it with Malcolm
MacLeod, f. 239. Malcolm MacLeod, after parting with the Prince and
finding himself in danger of being seized, did hide the waistcoat in
a clift of a rock, where (upon his returning home in the beginning
of September 1747) he found it all rotten to bits, except only
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