[274] General Stewart's Sketches of the Highlanders, vol. ii. p. 5. App.
[275] See General Stewart's Sketches.
[276] Chambers. Note, p. 106.
[277] Lockhart's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 540.
[278] Stewart, vol. i. p. 105.
[279] Brown's Highlands, p. 284.
[280] Donald Macleod's Narrative, in Bishop Forbes's collection.
[281] Home, App. p. 45.
[282] O'Neil's Narrative.
[283] Brown's History of the Highlands, p. 285, note, vol. iii.
[284] Maxwell of Kirkconnel, p. 178.
[285] Chambers' Traditions of Edinburgh, p. 255.
[286] Eglintoune House was situated on the west side of the old
Stamp-office Close, High Street. It is now occupied by a
vintner.--Chambers' Traditions, p. 256.
[287] Boswell, p. 320.
[288] A Genuine Account of the Prince's escape.--Scots' Magazine for
1749.
[289] Captain Roy Macdonald's Narrative. Forbes, p. 419.
[290] Chambers. Edit. for the People, p. 101.
[291] Note in Scots' Magazine for 1749; from a MS. by Colonel
Macalister.
[292] Donald Macleod's Narrative. Forbes, p. 391.
[293] Boswell's Journey to the Hebrides, p. 207.
[294] Chambers, p. 102, and note.
[295] It was, (be it known, for the gratification of those curious in
such matters,) "sprigged with blue."
[296] Jacobite Memoirs, p. 448.
[297] Forbes, p. 449.
[298] Forbes, p. 413.
[299] Curious Tracts in the British Museum, vol. iv. Scotland.
[300] Jacobite Memoirs, p. 447.
[301] A small isle about eight miles to the westward of South Uist.
[302] Forbes. Narrative of Captain Donald Macdonald.
[303] Scots' Magazine for 1749.
[304] Note in Chambers' Memoirs of the Rebellion.
[305] Preface to the Jacobite Memoirs by Mr. Robert Chambers, to whom
the public owe so much on this and other subjects.
[306] Brown's Hist. of the Highlands, vol. iii. p. 309.
[307] Preface to Jacobite Memoirs, xi.
[308] Chambers, p. 106. Taken from the Lyon in Mourning, MSS.
[309] Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides.
[310] Dr. Johnson's Tour to the Hebrides, p. 319.
[311] Dr. Johnson's Tour to the Hebrides, p. 217.
[312] From the Collection of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq. They were
printed, on the occasion of the Queen's visit to Scotland, in the
Edinburgh Advertiser for 1844.
[313] So named, in compliment to Sir Alexander Macdonald of Slate, or
rather to his wife, Lady Margaret, the friend of Flora Macdonald.
[314] This alludes to the attention paid him when young, and under the
care of Mr. Mackenzie, by that gentleman and his family.
[315] The late Sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie of Delvine, Bart.