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The intention is to create a fully transcribed library of all the books or memoirs written by the participants in the 1745-6 Jacobite Rebellion. These books are delivered in a unique format with links to any and all information I have found (including place name resolution using my map of the Jacobite Rebellion). These links are automatically populated by my Historical Timeline software. All of these books are out of copyright and transcribed (some are only scanned) by Dave Waddell and are licensed under a January 9th, 2010 (Latest content on February 19, 2012 ) P.S. I personally want to thank the Scottish History Society (SHS) for bringing so many of these publications to light since 1887. I also want to thank Currently, ( February 19, 2012 ) there are 177 transcribed books and 426 transcribed documents related to the 1745-6 rebellion. There are also four books awaiting republication.
There are also the four volumes by William Drummond Norie:-
Act for a company trading to Africa and the Indies, 26 June 1695 Charta Roberti Seneschalli Scottiæ: ex archivo Collegii Scotorum Parisiensis edita Copy of letter from [A. Campbell] 3rd Duke of Argyll to Sir John Cope; n.d. [c. Aug 1745], enclosed in General Cope's letter of 13 Aug. 1745 to Henry Pelham regarding the arrival of Charles Edward Stuart in Scotland. Edward Linn of the Royal North British Fuziliers. A letter from a private soldier of Barrel's regiment, at Edinburgh, dated Jan 19th 1746 From the Gentlemen's Magazine Vol. XVI 1746. Donald Mackay of Acmonie, Glen Urquhart – Jacobite volunteer soldier. Donald Campbell of Airds, Highland officer with the Government army. A Relic of the Forty Five from the diary of James Miller of the Manchester Regiment. March of the Highland Army from the Day Book of James Stuart. The Stuart MSS. contain the following Report on the operations of the Prince in England, from which the writer, Laurence Woulfe, had just returned. From Derby in the '45 Appendix K by L. Eardley-Simpson M.A, LL.B. (Cantab.). Jacobite Rumours by Henrietta Tayler from a letter of Angus MacDonell addressed to his cousin, Coll MacDonell of Barisdale. Robert Colquhoun, fourteenth of Camstradden. Battle of Clifton Moor as described by Thomas Savage to his friend Richard Partridge and also by Tom Tinkler To His Cousin. Letter from George Jonestone, Musselburgh [Midlothian, Scotland], to Henry Pelham; 21 Jan. 1745/6, endorsed 'Account of Action in Scotland, 1745/6' following the Battle of Falkirk. Letter from General Thomas Wentworth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to Henry Pelham; 10 Nov. 1745. Letter from Morpheus Landlowper, Edinburgh, to Henry Pelham; 10 December 1746. Letter from Lord George Murray to his wife following the Battle of Falkirk. This one letter, not only explains his reasons for stopping the charging Highlanders from destroying the routed militia, but also explains volumes about the character of Lord George. JACOBITE CAMPAIGN MANUSCRIPTS. Letter from J. O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawly, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to Henry Pelham; 11th November 1745. Transcription of a Letter from Sir Everard Fawkener (secretary to the Duke of Cumberland) to Henry Pelham (Prime Minister of Great Britain) dated at Inverness 18th April 1746. Also announcing the arrival of Lord Cromarty and his son Lord McLeod on board the Hound sloop (Captain Dove). Transcription of a Letter from Major-General Humphrey Bland, Fort Augustus [Inverness-shire, Scotland], to Henry Pelham (Prime Minister of Great Britain); 9 Jun. 1746. Disposal of the La Seine ship that carried Lord John Drummond. Letters to the Laird of Stonywood. A letter to the Right Honourable the E---l of T---q---r (Earl of Traquair). Extracts from the diary of the reverend John Bisset. Various letters from The Highlanders at Macclesfield in 1745 by Walter Biggar Blaikie (WBB) and published in the Scottish Historical Review VOL. VI., No. 23 for April 1909 page 225. Following on from Part 1 in Scottish Historical Review VOL. V., No. 19 for April 1908 page 285. A LETTER to the Author of the National Journal. Correspondence of Archbishop Herring and Lord Hardwicke during the Rebellion of 1745. By R. Garnett, Thomas Herring (Archbishop of York [later Canterbury]) and Lord Hardwicke from The English Historical Review - Volume 19, No. 75 of July 1904 pages 528-550. Part II followed in No. 76 of October 1904 on pages 719-742. TWO ACCOUNTS OF THE ESCAPE OF PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD - Edited by Henrietta Tayler for the Luttrell Society by Basil Blackwell. The capture of the Prince Charles Stuart snow (formerly the Hazard sloop captured at Montrose). Letter from Lord Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle with the List Of Prisoners, Delivered to Commodore Smith by Major General Campbell, Augt 3rd, 1746. A Journey through part of England and Scotland by a Volunteer in the Duke of Cumberland's Army (1747) as a series of letters to his friend in London. Three letters from Charles and Henry from the Third Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts regarding Cluny Macpherson and Clementina Walkinshaw. The Culloden Papers by Duncan Forbes (they are, currently, only fully corrected from letter CCXLV sent to Mr. Pelham to inform him of the rumour of Charles' landing and dated 2nd August 1745). The Journal of Elizabeth "Beppy" Byrom in 1745, eldest daughter of John Byrom the poet from Manchester, provides an interesting perspective of a 24 year-old girl. Letters to and from Charles regarding his arrival in France from Scotland from the Stuart Papers at Windsor. Also, from the Stuart Papers and extracted from the Appendix of Lord Mahon's (Philip Henry Stanhope) History of England from the peace of Utrecht to the peace of Paris, Volume 2. More from the same location but derived from the Grantham and Hardwick, Coxe's collection, and the State Papers. The extremely difficult to find correspondence from volume two of William Fraser's Chiefs of Grant dealing with the 1745-6 rebellion. From the first arrival of Charles Edward Stuart to shortly after the death of Sir Ludovick Grant. The original can be read here. A letter from Henry Goring Esq. (1750) supposedly dealing with part of Charles Edward Stuart's travels after leaving Avignon. While not unreasonable it was, in fact, a work of fiction by Eliza Fowler Haywood for which she was arrested as a Jacobite sympathizer. Report on the manuscripts of the Marquess of Lothian, preserved at Blickling Hall from the Historical Manuscripts Commission contains details of the effects of the rebellion on the London Stock Exchange. It also mentions the presence of several officers in Leicester seeking lodging for the army on the night of December 5th, 1745. Also mention is made of a capture of an English ship by the Prince de Country (surely the Prince de Conti that was one of the ships that rescued Charles) out of St. Malo. The intrigues of the exiled did not end with the suppression of the rebellion as noted in the Manuscripts of the Duke of Leeds (Holdernesse Papers), from the Eleventh Report, Part Seven of the HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION. In particular those of James Drummond (MacGregor) of Bohaldie. The Roxburghe Club - Volume 59 (1843) is The Decline of the Last Stuarts. This pamphlet supposedly contains The Genuine Dying Speech of Parson Coppock. An extraction of two letters written by Major James Wolfe (later General)(regarding the Battle of Culloden) April 17, 1746 from Wolfe in Scotland in the '45 and from 1749 to 1753, by J. T. Findlay. Notes and letters from The Tissington MSS and the Rebellion of '45 as printed in volume 30 of The Antiquary of 1894. Letters from A History of the Ancient Parish of Leek by John Sleigh (1862). A section from Memoirs of the administration of the Right Honourable Henry Pelhamdealing with events up to, including, and shortly after the 1745-6 rebellion. The Father Innes Papers from the Scots College in Paris extracted from The Spalding Club Miscellany Volume II (1842) by John Stuart. This contains a facsimile letter to Henry Innes congratulating him on becoming Procurator in 1777 and is signed Charles R.
Coming soon are Cordara's History of the expedition, originally written in Latin and translated into Italian by Antonia Gussalli in 1845 as La spedizione di Carlo Odoardo Stuart negli anni 1743- 44- 45- 46 The Trial of Archibald Stewart Esq; Lord Provost of Edinburgh and his friend, David Hume's, brilliant but anonymous pamphlet A true account of the behaviour and conduct of Archibald Stewart, Esq.; late Lord Provost of Edinburgh printed in his defence. In July 2010, I was able to read the, almost impossible to find, A Jacobite Miscellany by Henrietta Tayler produced by the Roxburghe Club in 1948. This book has been transcribed and presented to the Club for republication as it offers insights previously unknown, which, because of its limited circulation, have remained hidden for almost sixty years. Ship's Log of the DuTeillay from Une Famille Royaliste, Irlandaise et Francaise, et Le Prince Charles-Edouard Jacobite Ciphers or cyphers. Itinerary of Prince Charles Edward Stuart from his landing in Scotland July 1745 to his departure in September 1746. By Robert Forbes, Walter Biggar Blaikie (WBB). Corrected in W.B. Blaikie's, The first news that reached Edinburgh of the landing of Prince Charles, 1745, in SHR 23, 1926, p. 161-170. Also by WBB is Origins of the 'Forty-Five. Also by Robert Forbes is Jacobite Memoirs of the Rebellion of 1745 which includes Lord George Murray's Marches of the Highland Army and A plain, authentick, and faithful narrative of the several passages of the Young Chevalier writing under the pseudonym Philalethes in 1750. The Lockhart papers - Volumes One and Two. These volumes are large and deal mostly with letters before the 1745-6 rebellion. The first volume is hardly edited and the second is only lightly edited before events of the '45. Henry Fielding's pamphlet (published in October 1745 shortly after the government defeat at the Battle of Prestonpans) is called The History of the Present Rebellion In Scotland. Also his A DIALOGUE BETWEEN The DEVIL, the POPE, AND THE PRETENDER is published. The Memorials of John Murray of Broughton: sometime secretary to Prince Charles. Narrative by John Mackenzie, LORD MACLEOD eldest son of the Earl of Cromartie. David, Lord Elcho's A Short Account of the Affairs of Scotland in the years 1744, 1745, and 1746 (with maps [larger download]). Declaration of Captain Felix O'Neil. James Maxwell of Kirconnell's narrative. The following account of the Skirmish at Clifton is extracted from the manuscript Memoirs of Evan Macpherson of Cluny, Chief of the clan Macpherson is in the Appendix of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley. Another account of the skirmish can be found in The Retreat of the Highlanders through Westmoreland in 1745. Chevalier de Johnstone's memoirs volume One (I also have Two and Three but they're less relevant to the story dealing with Johnstone's escape to the continent and his subsequent life in Canada). There is also an edition translated in 1820. This is the story of the Highlander's greatest weapon - the basket-hilted broadsword - commonly known as an Andrew Ferrara. Prince Charlie's Pilot Donald MacLeod - The Faithful Palinurus. Dalilea manuscript. Originally published in 1873 in The Edinburgh monthly magazine [afterwards] Blackwood's Edinburgh ..., Volume 114 page 408 as A true and real state of Prince Charles Stuart’s miraculous escape after the battle of Cullodden. The Plundering of Cullen House by the Rebels. The Siege of Blair Castle by Lord George Murray. The Highland Forts in the ‘Forty-Five’ by C. L. Kingsford in the English Historical Review volume 37 for 1922 which includes the Diary of Captain Caroline Scott. The very difficult to find Young Juba by M. Michell (pseudonym for Michael [Michel, Michele] Vizazi [Vizzosi]- Charles' valet) although clearly edited by a government supporter. Mémoire d'un Écossais by Donald "The Gentle Lochiel" Cameron, XIX Chief of Clan Cameron, April 1747. James Dennistoun Memoirs of Sir Robert Strange Knt., engraver and of his brother Andrew Lumisden Volume I and Two. From the French periodical Revue rétrospective Volume 3 Jul-Déc 1885 are the letters sent by the marquis d’Eguilles, sometimes known as the French Ambassador - Correspondance inédite du marquis d’Eguilles. He was arrested after the Battle of Culloden and was under parole first in Inverness then Carlisle and finally returning home via Berwick, Newcastle, and Flessingue in Holland with a prisoner exchange in May 1747. He sorely missed his family and friends and wrote prolifically about the rebellion and the conditions afterwards. A compleat history of the rebellion, From its first Rise, in 1745, To its total Suppression at the glorious Battle of Culloden, in April, 1746 by James Ray of Whitehaven. Geschichte des englischen Cron-Prätendentens. Discursos exortatorios, que hizo a su exercito su Alteza Real Carlos Stuardo, Principe de Gales (1745) translated for Doctor John Lacy. An original version can be found here. A Plain Narrative and Authentic Journal of the Late Rebellion begun in 1745 by Michael Hughes, a volunteer in Bligh's regiment. THE JACOBITE REBELLIONS (1689-1746) by J. PRINGLE THOMSON, M.A. Dougal Graham (b. 1724 d. July 20, 1779), Glasgow's Skellat Bellman, travelled with Prince Charles' army and was the first to publish an account (advertised in the Glasgow Courant of September 29, 1746) at great risk to himself. His collected works in two volumes (One and Two) contain An Impartial Account of the Rise, Progress, and Extinction of the late Rebellion. This work is in meter and was published in at least twenty editions between 1746 and 1828. Sir Walter Scott put a lot of worth on Dougal's work and thought of editing it for the Bannatyne Club. This is the Ninth Edition dated 1812. Regrettably, there may be no copies of the all important 1st Edition (or the 2nd) left in existence. Andrew Henderson, The Edinburgh History of the late Rebellion, 4th edition (1752). A True and Full ACCOUNT of the late Bloody and Desperate Battle fought at Gladſmuir. This account was reprinted almost verbatim in the Scots Magazine of September 1745 and in History of the transactions in Scotland, in the years 1715-16, and 1745-46 Volume II by George Charles. The original formatting has been preserved (including long s and all ligatures [see reference page]). Coming soon, Historical Papers Relating to the Jacobite Period 1699-1750. Edited By COLONEL JAMES ALLARDYCE Volumes One and Two. Also Prince, Charles Edward Stuart, the young chevalier by Lang, Andrew, (1844-1912) published in 1903. History of the transactions in Scotland, in the years 1715-16, and 1745-46 Volume II by George Charles part of which was written in 1746, which also contains an edited version of John Burton's Miraculous Escape, and was published in 1817. This is the transcription of the 1802 John Home The History of the Rebellion in 1745. Jacobite correspondence of the Atholl family: during the rebellion, M.DCC.XLV-M.DCC.XLVI. John Burton, M.D. and his persecutors explained in British Liberty Endanger'd from 1749. Accounts of the Burning of the 'Rebel Colours' on 4th June 1746 at Edinburgh from History of the Carnegies, Earls of Southesk, and of their kindred (1867) - volumes one and two. At the Battle of Culloden Sir James Carnegie of Pittarrow, 3rd Bart., fought for the Duke (returning with him from Flanders). His younger brother, George Carnegie, afterwards of Pittarrow, fought in the same battle (alongside James Carnegie of Balnamoon), in support of Prince Charles. The Adventures of Ranald Macdonald from seven years of age till his arrival at Warwick Hall describes life on the run after Culloden and is from The Family Memoir of the Macdonalds of Keppoch which was written for Mary Macdonald, who married Charles Stanley Constable, Esq. The Works of M. de Voltaire: The ancient and modern history By Voltaire, Tobias George Smollett, and Thomas Francklin contains in chapter 191 a short piece called Of Prince Charles-Edward. So much misinfornation has been written about Flora Macdonald and her life that this book is essential to get to the facts - The Truth about Flora Macdonald. Following on from the process that began with the Glencoe Massacre, continued after the '45, and into the late 19th century was the depopulation of the Highlands known as The Highland Clearances. Crofts and farms in the Hebrides by George Douglas Campbell (8th duke of Argyll.) lists 825 crofters and cottars wishing to leave Tiree in 1883. There are several later books such as Jacobite Gleanings from the State Manuscripts by J. Macbeth Forbes (includes a list of the 150 transported prisoners rescued from the Diamond out of Liverpool and headed for Antigua) and The spirit of Jacobite loyalty by William Garden Blaikie Murdoch. Although not a memoir, Scotland's Road of Romance paints an excellent picture of the Highlands and the places involved in the '45, so I have included it. There are a few general histories of the 1745 such as Memoirs of the Pretenders and their Adherents, Volume 2, by John Heneage Jesse and chapter eight of James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. There is also this curious anecdote from Memoirs and Anecdotes of Philip Thicknesse regarding Prince Charles Edward Stuart meeting with Lady Touchet in 1744 and his visits to London. Also you might like the restoration of Monkstadt House. Trial of Archibald Macdonald, son to Coll Macdonald of Barisdale, as attainted of High Treason in A collection and abridgement of celebrated criminal trials in Scotland, from A.D. 1536 to 1784. Prince Charlie's Friends or Jacobite Indictments by D. Murray Rose (1896). Two anonymous pamphlets called Some particulars of the secret history of William Murray of Brughton (1766) and Genuine memoirs of John Murray, late secretary to the Young Pretender. Printed for J. Wilford (1747). Important events leading up to the forty-five were:
Scanned books that you can only find here: Bonnie Prince Charlie in Cumberland - J.A. Wheatley (1903) is also transcribed. The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club Volume II from 1909 (The Arms of Edinburgh are on the front of the book and the motto is Nisi Dominus Frustra - Except the Lord in Vain. [Psalm cxxvii, 1. Vulgate]) contains three interesting articles: Biographies of supporters of Prince Charles
Arthur Elphinstone, Lord Balmerino's letter to the King dated 17 August, 1745, the day before his execution. Cluny Macpherson and Cluny Macpherson at Cluny Castle from the Celtic Magazine No. XXX, Vol. III of April 1878. Also the letter from Prince Charlie to Cluny of the '45 dated 18th September 1746. Æneas MacDonald, brother to Kinlochmoidart, the Paris Banker and one of the Seven Men of Moidart. Unfortunately, he was an unwilling participant in the rebellion and eventually "sold out" to the Duke of Newcastle on Oct. 26th, 1746. He did not die in the French Revolution, as many books report. The Examination of John Walkinshaw on October 3, 1746 at the Cockpit in Whitehall Palace by Thomas Waite, Treasury Secretary for the Duke of Newcastle. Colonel John Walkinshaw Crawfurd of Crawfurdland was the cousin of Thomas Coutts the London banker to George II who later helped Clementina Walkinshaw. He was also a personal friend of Lord Kilmarnock and attended him on the scaffold. Charles Edward Stuart's mistress Clementina Walkinshaw and mother of his only child Charlotte Stuart. She was the youngest daughter of John Walkinshaw of Barrowfield and Camlachie (he had no sons but ten daughters). This is from the History of Glasgow Volume III chapter XV page 121, by George Eyre-Todd (1934). Charlotte Stuart's Last Will and Testament and a copy of the same Last Will (with an Introduction by A. Francis Steuart) in SHS Volume 44 from the Miscellany of the Scottish History Society (Second Volume 1904). Last Will and Testament of Charles (including codicil) and Henry Stuart. Stuart note from Oeuvres Complettes de Louis de St. Simon. (1791) Reel of the Eight Men of Moidart. Authentic Copies of the letters and other papers of the nine Rebels a pamphlet released in August 1746 concerning the last words of nine of the Manchester Regiment who were to be executed on Kennington Common. Francis Townley On August 25th 1746 (O.S.), Ralph Griffiths unsuccessfully petitioned the Duke of Newcastle, then Secretary of State, to release his pamphlets for which he had been arrested. A fragment of a memoir of Field-Marshal James Keith, written by himself, 1714-1734 by James Francis Edward Keith and presented to The Spalding Club in 1843 by Thomas Constable. A Jacobite Exile recounts the exile of Andrew Hay of Rannes in France, Holland, and Belgium. By Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (1937). Newspapers and magazines of 1744-1753 Coming soon will be all of the transcribed reports from the London Gazette, and the Caledonian Mercury, over the period of the 1745-6 rebellion. Here is the London Gazette Extraordinary of April 23, 1746 first announcing the defeat at Culloden and officially from the London Gazette of April 26, 1746 along with the surrender of the French, lists of killed and wounded, and captured weapons. The Caledonian Mercury of Monday January 20, 1746 reports on the Battle of Falkirk. London Gazette issue 8544 from Tuesday June 10, to Saturday June 14, 1746. Three articles from the Scots magazine, Volume 8 March 1746 and June 1746 with the rebel prisoners tried in Surrey and the sentences carried out at Kennington Common. From volume 15 of Gentleman's Magazine for December 1745 Behaviour of the Rebels at Derby pages 708-709 From volume 16 of Gentleman's Magazine for October 1746 - Account of the Young Pretender’s Escape after the Battle of Culloden. November 1746 - Account of the Proceedings in trying the Rebel Prisoners at York. Also a later account from volume 35 in 1765 called A particular and authentic Account of the Escape of Charles Edward Stuart, commonly called the Young Chevalier, after the Battle of Culloden. The Scottish Antiquary, or, Northern Notes & Queries - volume V 1886 discusses Some Notes on the attainted Jacobites, 1746. The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 264 Jan-Jun 1888 published an index from Lord Braye's MSS on letters related to Charles Edward Stuart in the period following his return to France until the death of Henry. William Shenstone's (English poet, gardener and collector b.1714 d.1763 ) ballad of Jemmy Dawson.
This is Book I of Ascanius that was printed for T. Johnston, in Salisbury-Court, Fleet Street. 1746. The interviews recorded by Dr John Burton, M.D. of York were published in 1749 as A Genuine and True Journal of the Miraculous Escape of the Young Chevalier which would go on to be Book II of all subsequent versions of Ascanius. This version is printed for W. Webb of St. Paul's. The first was printed for B.A. of Charing-Cross (Benjamin Andrews). The first in the series of ePub format documents is Book 1 of Ascanius; or, the Young Adventurer. This is derived from an InDesign version that has been formatted to show the Historical Forms (Long s i.e. ſ [as discussed on the Reference page] and ligatures as seen in the Gladsmuir page). Ascanius (son of Æneas [James]), as a reference to Charles Edward Stuart was first used in Jacobite Lairds of Gask from 1743, and later in the tract Æneas and His Two Sons (printed for J. Oldcastle 1746). On the 9th of April, 1743, Gask had a letter from Mr. Forbes, an Episcopalian clergyman, who long afterwards became a constant correspondent on the matter nearest the hearts of the Oliphants. His sprightly style in later letters reminds us of the French or Irish priest of the old school. Veteran plotter that he is, he never signs his name to a single letter he writes. His allusions to the King over the water are easily seen. |
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James Francis Fitzjames Stuart, the Duke of Liria and Xérica, Earl of Tynemouth and Baron of Bosworth, was the natural son of James II. This diary from the Quarterly Review of 1892, covers the period when he was Spanish Ambassador to Russia. Originally published in ‘Colección de Documentos Ineditos para la Historia de España,’ Vol. XCIII. Madrid, 1889.
