Part 47

Life of Lord Balmerino, p. 51. Buchan's Account of the Earls of Keith, p. 149.

Scots' Magazine for 1746.

Scots' Magazine for 1746.

Georgian Era.

Wood's Peerage.

Maxwell, p. 59.

Georgian Era.

State Trials, vol. xviii.

Edinburgh Gazetteer. Art. "South Leith."

History of the Rebellion from the Scots' Magazine, p. 302.

Horace Walpole's Letters to Sir Horace Mann, vol. ii. p. 160.

Georgian Era.

Ibid.

State Trials, vol. xviii. p. 466.

Observations on the Account, &c., p. 23.

Horace Walpole, vol. ii. p. 163

Ibid. vol. ii. p. 115.

Horace Walpole.

See Scots' Magazine for 1746.

State Trials.

State Trials.

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.

Letters to Sir H. Mann, vol. ii. p. 167.

State Trials 18, p. 502.

H. Walpole, p. 31. Letters to G. Montagu.

Walpole's Letters to Montagu, p. 29. Folio.

Letters to Sir H. Mann, vol. ii. p. 167.

State Trials, by Hargreaves, pp. 18, 502.