{274} Browne, iv. 120, 121.

{277a} Culloden Papers, p. 412.

{277b} Robertson of Inerchraskie to Forbes of Culloden. September 23, 1745.

{278} Ma.n.u.scripts in the Charter Chest at Cluny Castle. Privately printed.

{280a} Pickle was inducted into his estates, before the Bailies of Inverness and a jury, on February 2, 1758. The 'Retour' is cited in Mr. Mackenzie's History of the Macdonalds.

{280b} The story is in Mr. Mackenzie's History of the Macdonalds.

{281} All this is probably false.

{284} Mr. Bruce, October 10, 1754, to Gwynn Vaughan, Esq.

{285} Arniston Memoirs, edited by G. W. T. Omond, p. 153. Mr.

Dundas of Arniston has kindly supplied a copy containing what is omitted in Mr. Omond's book--Pickle's dealings with his tenantry.

{286} See Macallester's huge and intolerably prolix book, A Series of Letters (London: 1767).

{287} D'Argenson, July 1755.

{288} S. P. France, 468.

{292a} Browne, iv. 124.

{292b} Ibid. iv. 125.

{293} Ewald's Prince Charles, ii. 223-228. From State Papers.

{294} Letter to Edgar, September 16, 1755.

{296a} Madame Adelaide, according to gossip in the Scots Magazine.

{296b} Pol. Corr. xi. p. 37. No. 7,199, and p. 63.

{297} I have never seen this doc.u.ment.

{298} A full account of Macallester, from which these remarks are taken, was published by myself in the English Ill.u.s.trated Magazine.

{301} Archives of French Foreign Office. Angleterre. 81. fol. 11.

{302a} Pol. Corr. xiii. 320. No. 8,660.

{302b} See Le Secret du Roi, by the Duc de Broglie.

{303} Memoire of Charlotte Stuart. French Foreign Office. 1774.

{306} Mr. Alexander Pelham Trotter has kindly permitted me to consult this doc.u.ment in his possession.

{309a} D'Aiguillon.

{309b} Prince de Soubise.

{312} As is proved by Murray's letter of December 10.

{316} Memoire of Charlotte Stuart. 1774.

{317} Charles, as Lumisden writes (December 3, 1760), 'positively insists on having the young filly returned to him.'

{321} The article on the Tales of the Century in the Quarterly Review (vol. lx.x.xi. p. 57) was not 'by Lockhart,' as Mr. Ewald says, and is not, in fact, accurate.

{323} Nothing in the Stuart Papers confirms the story that Charles was at the Coronation of George III., in 1761. In the present century Cardinal York told a member of the Stair family that the Prince visited England in 1763. It may have been then that he saw Murray of Broughton, and was seen by Murray's child, afterwards the actor known to Sir Walter Scott.