[316] Wood's Peerage.
[317] Who, adds the same authority, carried azure, a fess chequé, argent
and gules: and for their crest, a hand issuing out of a wreath, pointing
with the thumb and two fingers: motto, _confido_; supporters, two
squirrels collared or.
[318] Reay, 203.
[319] Reay, 203.
[320] Wood's Peerage. The defect of the title is the failure of issue
male. The title of Livingstone was considered by the same authority as
untouched.
[321] Ibid.
[322] Lockhart Papers, i. 138. Note. Calendar.
[323] Memoirs of Lord Kilmarnock. London, 1746, p. 19.
[324] Memoirs of the Earl of Kilmarnock, p. 20.
[325] MS. Letter presented to me by Mrs. Howison Craufurd, of
Craufurdland Castle, Ayrshire.
[326] Memoirs of Lord Kilmarnock, p. 21.
[327] Horace Walpole's Letters, ii. p. 113.
[328] Foster's Account, p. 11.
[329] Grose, 214.
[330] Memoirs of Lord Kilmarnock, p. 23.
[331] Life of Colonel Gardiner, by Dr. Doddridge, _passim_.
[332] Doddridge. Life of Colonel Gardiner, p. 155.
[333] Henderson, p. 130.
[334] State Trials of George II.
[335] Maxwell, p. 60.
[336] Forbes's Account, p. 20.
[337] Maxwell, p. 50. This Nobleman was at the battle of Culloden.
[338] Henderson, p. 332.
[339] Henderson, p. 130.
[340] Note in Chambers, p. 89.
[341] History of the Rebellion, from the Scots' Magazine, p. 198.
[342] Chambers, p. 89. Henderson, p. 334.
[343] Observations on the Account of the Behaviour of Lords Kilmarnock
and Balmerino, 1746.
[344] Ibid.
[345] Nesbitt, Heraldry, vol. i. p. 154.
[346] "Elphingstone, in the shire of Hadington, and in the parish of
Tranent, a village at the distance of three miles S.S.W. from
Tranent."--Edinburgh Gazetteer.
[347] Nesbitt, p. 154.
[348] Memoirs of Lord Balmerino. London, 1764.
[349] Wood's Peerage.
[350] Life of Lord Balmerino, p. 51. Buchan's Account of the Earls of
Keith, p. 149.
[351] Scots' Magazine for 1746.
[352] Scots' Magazine for 1746.
[353] Georgian Era.
[354] Wood's Peerage.
[355] Maxwell, p. 59.
[356] Georgian Era.
[357] State Trials, vol. xviii.
[358] Edinburgh Gazetteer. Art. "South Leith."
[359] History of the Rebellion from the Scots' Magazine, p. 302.
[360] Horace Walpole's Letters to Sir Horace Mann, vol. ii. p. 160.
[361] Georgian Era.
[362] Ibid.
[363] State Trials, vol. xviii. p. 466.
[364] Observations on the Account, &c., p. 23.
[365] Horace Walpole, vol. ii. p. 163
[366] Ibid. vol. ii. p. 115.
[367] Horace Walpole.
[368] See Scots' Magazine for 1746.
[369] State Trials.
[370] State Trials.
[371] Note. The plea was couched in these words: "July 29th, 1746. It is
conceived that the late Act of Parliament, empowering his Majesty to
transport such as are taken in arms from one county to another, where
they may be tried by the course of the common law, did not take place
till after that time, that the facts implying treason, were actually
committed by the accused prisoners, and if so, the Grand Jury of Surrey,
or of any other county whatsoever, where these acts of treason are not
alleged to have been committed, could not, agreeable to law, find bills
against such prisoners; and it may, on that score, be prayed, That the
indictment be quashed, or that an arrest of judgment be thereupon
granted." What a bitter, though unavailing feeling of regret accompanies
the reflection that this benevolent attempt to save the lives of these
brave men, was fruitless.
[372] Letters to Sir H. Mann, vol. ii. p. 167.
[373] State Trials 18, p. 502.
[374] H. Walpole, p. 31. Letters to G. Montagu.
[375] Walpole's Letters to Montagu, p. 29. Folio.
[376] Letters to Sir H. Mann, vol. ii. p. 167.
[377] State Trials, by Hargreaves, pp. 18, 502.
[378] Memoirs of the Earl of Kilmarnock and Cromartie, and of Lord
Balmerino, 1746.
[379] Life of Lord Cromartie, 1746.
[380] Buchan's Memoirs of the House of Keith, p. 143.
[381] Walpole's Letters to Sir H. Mann, vol. ii. p. 171.
[382] Foster's Account, p. 87.
[383] For a copy of this letter I am indebted to the kindness of Mrs.
Craufurd of Craufurdland Castle, Kilmarnock. The original is in the
possession of Martin Paterson, Esq. of Kilmarnock, and is endorsed "Copy
of the last Instructions of Lord Kilmarnock to his factor, Mr. Robert
Paterson."
[384] Statement.
[385] Statement.
[386] Mrs. Howison Craufurd, the lady of William Howison Craufurd, Esq.,
of Craufurdland Castle, Ayrshire. To this Lady I am indebted for much of
the information (afforded by her admirable letters) which has been
introduced into this Memoir of Lord Kilmarnock. To this lady I addressed
an inquiry respecting an original portrait of Lord Kilmarnock. Her
efforts to obtain any intelligence of one have been wholly unavailing;
and we have been led to the conclusion that, in the fire at Dean Castle,
all the portraits of Lord Kilmarnock must have been destroyed; his
resemblance, his name, his honour, and his Castle thus becoming extinct
at once. At Craufurdland Castle there is a fine portrait of Lord
Kilmarnock's brother, his widow and daughter, painted in oils, after a
singular fashion, black and white; giving it a ghastly hue. This perhaps
accounts for the local tradition near Kilmarnock, "that on hearing of
his brother's death, Mr. Boyd's colour fled, and never returned; nor was
he ever seen to smile again." A tradition not difficult of belief.
The present Mr. Craufurd, of Craufurdland Castle, represents also the
family of Howison of Bræ-head. In Mrs. Howison Craufurd's family an
amusing circumstance relative to Lord Lovat occurred. He was one evening
in a ball-room, and was paying court to the great-grandmother of that
lady. As he was playfully examining, and holding in his hand her diamond
solitaire, a voice whispered in his ear, "that Government officers were
in pursuit of him; and that he must decamp." Decamp he did, taking with
him, _perhaps_ by accident, the costly jewel. The young lady was in the
greatest trepidation, and her family were resolved to recover the
ornament. Many years after, on his return from France, Lovat, whose
character, in _no_ respect, rose above suspicion, was taxed with the
robbery, and refunded a sum which gave twenty pounds to each of a host
of granddaughters, then in their girlhood.
[387] In a letter from Mrs. Craufurd of Craufurdland to the author, this
fact is stated. It is mentioned as traditionary elsewhere, but is
attested by the family.
[388] H. Walpole, vol. ii. p. 167.
[389] H. Walpole's Letters to Mr. Montagu.
[390] Foster's Account, p. 31.
[391] Walpole.
[392] Ford's Account in State Trials, p. 18, 522.
[393] For the original of Lord Balmerino's real speech, which is highly
characteristic of its author, I am indebted to Charles Kirkpatrick
Sharpe, Esq.
"I was brought up in true, loyal, and anti-revolution principles and
I hope the world is convinced that they stuck to me. I must
acknowledge I did a very inconsiderate thing, for which I am
heartily sorry, in accepting a company of Foot from the Princess
Anne, who I know had no more right to the Crown than her predecessor
the Prince of Orange.... To make amends for what I had done I joined
the ... (Pretender) when he was in Scotland in 1715, and when all
was over I made my escape, and lived abroad till the year 1734.
"In the beginning of that year I got a letter from my father which
very much surprised me; it was to let me know he had a promise of a
remission for me. I did not know what to do; I was then, (I think,)
in the canton of Berne, and had nobody to advise with: but next
morning I wrote a letter to the ... (Pretender) who was then at
Rome, to acquaint the ... (Pretender) that this was come without my
asking or knowledge, and that I would not accept of it without his
consent. I had in answer to mine, a letter written with ... (The
Pretender's) own hand, allowing me to go home; and he told me his
banker would give me money for my travelling charges when I came to
Paris, which accordingly I got. When the ... (the Pretender's son)
came to Edinburgh I joined him, though I might easily have excused
myself from taking arms on account of my age; but I never could have
had peace of conscience if I had stayed at home.... I am at a loss
when I come to speak of the ... (Pretender's son,) I am not a fit
hand to draw his character, I shall leave that to others. (Here he
gives a fulsome character of the Pretender's son.)
"Pardon me if I say, wherever I had the command, I never suffered
any disorders to be committed, as will appear by the Duke of
Buccleugh's servants at East Park; by the Earl of Findlater's
minister, Mr. Lato, and my Lord's servant, A. Cullen; by Mr. Rose,
minister at Nairn, (who was pleased to favour me with a visit when I
was prisoner at Inverness;) by Mr. Stewart, principal servant to the
Lord President at the House of Culloden; and by several other
people. All this gives me great pleasure, now that I am looking upon
the block on which I am ready to lay down my head; and though it
would not have been my own natural inclination to protect everybody,
it would have been my interest to have done it for ... (the
Pretender's son) abhorred all those who were capable of doing
injustice to any.... I have heard since I came to this place, that
there has been a most wicked report spread, and mentioned in several
of the newspapers that ... (the Pretender's son) before the battle
of Culloden, had given out orders that no quarter should be given to
the enemy. This is such an unchristian thing, and so unlike ... (the
Pretender's son,) that nobody (the Jacobites) that knows him will
believe it. It is very strange if there had been any such orders,
that neither the Earl of Kilmarnock, who was Colonel of the regiment
of the Foot Guards, nor I, who was Colonel of the second troop of
Life Guards, should ever have heard anything of it; especially since
we were both at the head-quarters the morning before the battle; I
am convinced that it is a malicious report industriously spread
to....
"Ever since my confinement in the Tower, when Major White or Mr.
Fowler did me the honour of a visit, their behaviour was always so
kind and obliging to me that I cannot find words to express it; but
I am sorry I cannot say the same thing of a General Williamson: he
has treated me barbarously, but not quite so ill as he did the
Bishop of Rochester; and had it not been for a worthy clergyman's
advice, I should have prayed for him in the words of David, Psalm
109, from the 6th to the 15th verse. I forgive him and all my
enemies. I hope you will have the charity to believe I die in peace
with all men; for yesterday, I received the Holy Eucharist from the
hands of a clergyman of the Church of England, in whose communion I
die as in union with the Episcopal Church of Scotland.
"I shall conclude with a short prayer."--(Here a prayer is mentioned
much the same as in Wm. Ford's account.)
[394] The account which I have given of Lord Kilmarnock's behaviour and
fate, and also of Lord Balmerino's, is taken from the following works,
to which I have not thought it necessary separately to refer. Foster's
Account of the Behaviour of Lord Kilmarnock; and the Vindication of
Foster's Account from the misrepresentations of some Dissenting
Teachers: London, 1746. Account by T. Ford, Under-Sheriff at the
Execution, in the State Trials, vol. xviii. p. 325. Horace Walpole's
Letters to Geo. Montagu, and to Sir H. Mann. Scots' Magazine for 1746;
and Buchan's Life of Marshal Keith; also a Collection of Tracts in the
British Museum, relating to the Rebellion, 1746, and chiefly published
during that year.
[395] For both these letters, hitherto unpublished, I am indebted for
the courtesy of Mrs. Craufurd of Craufurdland Castle.
[396] Forbes's Life of Beattie, vol. ii. p. 351.
[397] Journey to the Hebrides, p. 108
[398] Bayley's History of the Tower, p. 122.