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142  
In Inverness
…
her fields and granaries
. See Miller,
Inverness
, p. 118, and Major MS, Vol. 2, p. 25.

143  
the gateway to the north
. See Daniel Szechi,
1715: The Great Jacobite Rebellion
(Yale University Press, 2006), p. 184.

144  
had no idea what to do after they failed to take Newcastle
. Ibid., p. 171.

145  
in his late thirties and still in his prime
. See Michael Fry,
Wild Scots
,
Four Hundred Years of Highland History
(John Murray, 2005), p. 48.

145  
On his way home
…
clan’s survival
. Major MS, Vol. 2, p. 42.

146  
Also in Stirling … entire rebellion
. Szechi,
1715
, p. 185; RH 2/4/305/27 and 46, State Papers Scotland, NAS; Fraser,
Chiefs of Grant
, Vol. 2, pp. 357–58ff.

147  
My Lord Lovat is now gone
…
determined on that
. Fraser,
Chiefs of Grant
, Vol. 2, pp. 357–58ff, and Major MS, Vol. 2, p. 46ff.

147  
Edinburgh now
…
it bore
. Szechi,
1715
, p. 14, and Ramsay,
Scotland and Scotsmen
(Edinburgh, 1877), Vol. 1, p. 169.

149  
The night gave them some cover
… Much of this journey north is covered in Major MS, Vol. 2, p. 46ff.

152  
He sent a message
…
theatre of the rebellion
. RH 2/4/307/83b, State Papers Scotland, NAS; Szechi,
1715
, p. 185.

153  
hardly any men to command.
RH 2/4/307/83b; Miller,
Inverness
, p. 119; and Major MS, Vol. 2, p. 73ff.

153  
Lovat then met in council
…
occupied Inverness on 12 November.
Major MS, Vol. 2, p. 73ff.

155  
The next day, Sunday 13th
… The best account of Sheriffmuir is in Szechi,
1715
.

156  
Neither side gained much
…
the Jacobite campaign.
Keith,
A Fragment …
, p. 394.

156  
I find Lord Lovat’s … to make a diversion
. Argyll to Townshend, SP 54, State Papers Domestic, NA.

162  
Lovat stressed to Townshend … to British justice.
Lovat to Townshend, ibid.

163  
The Earl of Sutherland … joined me.
Sutherland to George I, in Fraser,
Sutherland Book
, Vol. 1, pp. 335–38.

164  
From the government camp
…
fifty miles of the town.
Calendar, Vol. 1, p. 482; Fraser,
Chiefs of Grant
, Vol. 1, pp. 363–64 and Vol. 2, p. 189.

165  
we are resolved
…
the key of the north
. SP 54, State Papers Domestic, NA.

165  
My presence will inspire
…
slow-moving, considered.
Calendar, Vol. 1, p. 484; Mar State Papers, p. 488.

166  
Lovat has it now
…
to make the work easy
. Calendar, Vol. 1, p. 490ff.

166  
Now he held the key to the north.
See Hooke,
Correspondence
, Vol. 1, p. 91 fn, and Calendar, Vol. 1, pp. 500–01.

167  
He offered Lovat a dukedom
. Hooke,
Correspondence
, Vol. 1, p. 91 fn.

168  
From London, King George I
…
steadily Lovat’s way.
Fraser,
Sutherland Book
, Vol. 2, pp. 27ff, 52–53; BL Add MSS 14854 f71.

171  
The Reverend James
…
their surviving stem.
Wardlaw MS, pp. 24–27.

171  
Lovat’s allies urged Westminster
…
his pardon
. SRO/GD 220/5/630/1, NAS.

172  
The Flying Post
. BL Burney collection, 175b, Box 2.

173  
He would not usually
…
Fraserdale’s camp.
Fraser,
Sutherland Book
, Vol. 2, pp. 53–61.

174  
guarantee the peaceable behaviour of their people
. Lovat to Cadogan, SP 54, State Papers Domestic, NA, March 1716.

176  
Lovat’s heart surged with joy.
Warrand (ed.),
Culloden Papers
, p. 44.

176  
Lovat set off
…
Argyll was their patron.
Warrand (ed.),
More Culloden Papers
, Vol. 2, p. 102.

176  
Sutherland was as good
…
Independent Company of Foot.
Calendar, Vol. 2, p. 225.

177  
I can hardly believe
…
which I hope is not true.
Atholl,
Chronicles
, Vol. 2, p. 250.

177  
Lovat took it from him.
Warrand (ed.),
More Culloden Papers
, Vol. 2, p. 81.

177  
The coffee houses and the other public places are the seats of English liberty.
Anthony Lejeune,
White’s: The First Three Hundred Years
(London: A. & C. Black, 1993), p. 34.

178  
expenses he claimed he incurred defending King George
. Lenman,
Jacobite Clans
, pp. 77–78. £14,000 is about £1,250,000 in today’s money.

178  
adjust matters betwixt them
. Fraser,
Sutherland Book
, Vol. 2, p. 217.

180  
Whilst in London, Lovat had received news of the death of his brother
. Warrand (ed.),
More Culloden Papers
, Vol. 2, p. 119, and Calendar, Vol. 2, p. 87.

182  
On Saturday 23 June
…
he meant the Squadrone
. Warrand (ed.),
Culloden Papers
, p. 55.

183  
women are children of a larger growth.
See Roy Porter,
English Society in the Eighteenth Century
(London: Penguin, 1991), p. 24.

183  
secure them the joint interest of the north.
Warrand (ed.),
Culloden Papers
, p. 75.

183  
confident they would not be ‘out’ for long.
Warrand (ed.),
More Culloden Papers
, Vol. 2, p. 124.

183  
I don’t know what will become of me.
Ibid., Vol. 2, p. 125.

184  
The news of the dismissal … reached Inverness.
Ibid., Vol. 2, p. 128.

184  
He was merely to be impoverished.
Warrand (ed.),
Culloden Papers
, p. 57; Calendar Treasury Papers, 1714–19, pp. 222–23.

185  
do what you can to have it stopped.
Atholl,
Chronicles
, Vol. 2, p. 254.

185  
My dear General you must be active in it.
Warrand (ed.),
More Culloden Papers
, Vol. 2, p. 126.

187  
it must be a curse rather than a blessing
. Fraser,
Chiefs of Grant
, Vol. 2, p. 291.

187  
to put her in the handsomest manner of my hand.
Ibid., Vol. 2, p. 354.

187  
for quantities of provisions
. Ibid., Vol. 1, p. 351.

189  
to anyone who would listen
. BL Add MSS 6116 ff87–93.

191  
in this he failed
. NLS, Dep 327.

192  
gentlemen of the long robe.
1746,
Lives of Lord Lovat
, Vol. 2, p. 65.

193  
Lovat wrote to Duncan about the looming crisis.
Warrand (ed.),
Culloden Papers
, p. 70.

193  
this gift, which I now reckon as nothing
… For Lovat’s escheat from the King see Mackenzie,
History of the Frasers
, pp. 349–50.

194  
that was the question facing Lovat and his legal representatives
. NLS 327 fB23(5).

195  
the bread that’s now taken from me.
SP 54 f134.

196  
shed more blood in peace than in time of war.
Graham,
Journey through the North
, Vol. 1, p. 49.

197  
the fatal Union which I hope will not last long.
Mackenzie,
History of the Frasers
, pp. 352–53.

198  
after taking a vomit he felt better at last
. Warrand (ed.),
More Culloden Papers
, Vol. 2, p. 188.

200  
Robertson’s house was within two miles of Dounie. Lives of Lord Lovat
, p. 60.

201  
he, Lord Lovat, would join with all his.
See
State Trials
, Vol. 18, p. 586.

202  
Perhaps you would be so kind just as to send it to me?
BL Add MSS 28239 f63.

202  
threw it into the fire.
See
State Trials
, Vol. 18, p. 588.

203  
I wish her an happy hour and a safe delivery.
Edward Dunbar,
Social Life in Former Days, chiefly in the Province of Moray
(Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1865)

203  
It weighed a satisfying eight pounds
. Catalogue for Lovat Sale, Lot 571.

207  
the greatest bouzers in the north.
In
Memoirs of Duncan Forbes
(London, 1748), p. 11.

208  
contest the Inverness-shire seat with Culloden.
Grant was sitting MP for Elginshire but the Inverness-shire seat, the hub of the Highlands, was more prestigious and in the right hands should command more patronage.

211  
by standards he himself deplored.
Lovat’s memorial to George I and Wade’s response are reprinted in Edmund Burt,
Letters from the North of Scotland, 1754
, Vol. 2 (London: William Paterson, 1876), p. 258ff.

212  
This powerful laird …
Ferguson, quoted in Edward King,
Munimenta Antiqua; Or, Observations on ancient Castles, including Remarks on
…
the Progress in Great Britain and on
…
the Changes in Laws and Customs
(London: G. Nicol, 1799–1805) p. 63.

214  
a man of a bold, nimbling kind of sense
…
sacrifice everything to their interest.
See Clerk of Penicuik,
Memoirs
, pp. 208–09, one of the commissioners who brought in the Act of Union.

215  
many a peruke had been baked in a better crust.
See Burt,
Letters from the North
, Vol. 1, p. 85.

215  
rather too much, I think, for the sportsman’s diversion.
Ibid., pp. 64–6.

215  
rankled with him and London
. In
Jacobite Clans
, Lenman uses Lovat as his paradigmatic example of how the great Highland chiefs tried to negotiate the transition from clannishness to capitalism and the modern age.

216  
the clan with its well-being
. Dodgshon,
Chiefs to Landlords
, p. 85.

217  
we are in the same slavery as ever
. Warrand (ed.),
More Culloden Papers
, Vol. 2, p. 322.

218  
Bailie John Steuart.
See Bailie John Steuart,
Letter-Book of Bailie John Steuart of Inverness
(Edinburgh: Scottish History Society, 1915), pp. xxii–xxiii.

219  
cruives.
See Burt,
Letters from the North
, Vol. 1, p. 67.

221  
neither did I hear of any theft or robbery.
Warrand (ed.),
Culloden Papers
, p. 97.

223  
in perpetuity in his own family
. Fraser,
Chiefs of Grant
, Vol. 2, p. 296.

224  
ane o’ Mary’s lovers
…
the castle was on the verge of following it.
Burt,
Letters from the North
, Vol. 1, pp. 20, 22, 35.

226  
the whiff of Jacobitism
. ‘Bobbing John’ Mar was the hopelessly indecisive leader of the 1715 uprising.

226  
Demonology was a passion.
Dr Alexander Carlyle of Inveresk,
Autobiography of Dr Alexander Carlyle
…
,
ed. Hill Burton (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1860), p. 8ff.

227  
my lovely soul’s affection for me
. Fraser,
Chiefs of Grant
, Vol. 2, p. 298.

228  
serve each one by serving them all.
Warrand (ed.),
Culloden Papers
, p. 113.

229  
you secure the estate of Lovat to Simon’s bairns
. Ibid., p. 117.

231  
Why had she changed her mind?
Fraser,
Chiefs of Grant
, Vol. 2, p. 300.

234  
an indignity put upon my person and family, that I can hardly bear
. Ibid., p. 304.