Edinburgh, Tuesday, August 25th, in the forenoon, 1747. I visited Mrs.
CAMERON, Dr. ARCHIBALD CAMERON'S lady,[165] who told me
[165] This lady was Jean Cameron, daughter of Archibald Cameron of
Dungallon. See other narratives by her at ff. 547 and 566. An account
of her husband's death is given at f. 1734 _et seq._
[Sidenote: 25 Aug. 1747]
[Sidenote: _fol._ 374.] That it was a common practice amongst the
red-coats after Culloden battle, dispersed up and down the Highlands,
to raise the bodies of man, woman, and child out of the graves for
greed of the linen, or whatever was wrapped about them, and after
they had taken that off them to leave the bodies above ground. She
herself had two children that died at that time, and she was advised
to bury them privately in some remote heathy brae, to prevent their
being taken up again; but she could not think of burying them in any
other place than where their forefathers were laid, and therefore she
was obliged to bribe a serjeant to keep the fellows from digging up
the bodies again.
She and her poor children behoved to take to the hills, no houses
being left in the whole country about them. Mrs. [Sidenote: _fol._
375.] Cameron said she never saw the Prince in his skulking, nor knew
not where he was.