The Last Highlander (43 page)
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Authors: Sarah Fraser
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Lovat as a barefoot Catholic monk. Scores of cartoons and stories fed the public’s appetite for scandal about him after he was captured. This plays on a rumour that Lovat was a Jesuit cleric in France and debauched women coming to him to make their confession.
Lovat as a young man, in armour and ready to defend his king. Which king, was a question asked about him for sixty years.
1
A few years later it seemed Thrift had begun to take his work home with him. He was convicted of a horrific murder, and was himself executed in public.
2
Coronachs
are formal Celtic keening songs. Clapping the palms together, howling, tearing your hair out, rocking, are all signs of lamentation.
3
The word
ceilidh
meant simply a ‘visit’, but implied the whole informal education a child like Simon would receive at home.
4
Aquavitie – a strong spirit, flavoured with dill or caraway – was traditionally used to settle upset stomachs and aid digestion.
5
Ipecacuanha is a South American plant that was used as an emetic or to facilitate expectoration in chest infections, very common in the damp Highlands.
6
Major Wolfe, a general ten years later, was despatched to Canada and died on the Heights of Quebec. Simon, the Master of Lovat, en route to Culloden, would be one of his senior officers; the Frasers accompanying him would serve Wolfe and King George II with courage and loyalty. Serving also would be Inverallochy’s younger cousin, Simon, and the Fraser lairds of Culduthel, Balnain, Belladrum, Errogie, and hundreds of Lord Lovat’s ordinary kinsmen now fleeing into the hills.
Unpublished Sources
ARCHIVES
British Library, London: Collection of Lovat papers covering period in France up to the early years of his incarceration, BL Add MSS 31249–53; BL Add MSS 6116: Letters and reports of trials after the 1715 rebellion; BL Add MSS 23289; Lovat memorial to William III: BL 20310; Burney collection of early British newspapers on microfiche
Highland Archives, Inverness: Burgh Council Minutes; ‘Historical Account of the Family of Fraser’ manuscript; ‘Laing manuscript’
House of Lords Archive, London: papers relating to the Lovat inheritance case up to 1730
Lochaber Archive Centre, Fort William: Lovat Papers, CL/6/–
National Archives, Kew, London: State Papers Domestic and Foreign, SP 54; SP 78
National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh: State Papers Scotland, Volumes RH 2/4–
National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh: NLS Dep 327: Fraser family papers, Lovat and Strichen; NLS 987: Lovat’s time in France, 1702–25; NLS 2963–69: Forbes family correspondence; NLS 3161: Letter Countess of Findlater to David Crawford describing marriage of Simon and Dowager Lady Lovat; ‘Remarks for Simon Fraser Lord Lovat on the Information for Hugh Mackenzie …’, 1730
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The Courant
The Gentleman’s Magazine
The Scots Magazine
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