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The Jacobite Lairds of Gask [I.E. the Oliphant Family] 1 0. 'fj. r 3 THE JACOBITE LAIRDS OF GASK Bv T. L. KINGTON OLIPHANT, Esq. OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD. Stemmata quid faciunt? .... nobilitas sola est atque unica Virtus. Juvenal, Satire viii. LONDON PUBLISHED FOR THE GRAMPIAN CLUB CHARLES GRIFFIN AND CO. stationers' hall court. 1870. LONDON : J. AND W. RIDER, PRINTERS, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE. THE GRAMPIAN CLUB. His Grace the Duke of Argyll, K.T., President. Aberdeen, University of, AiTKEN, J., Esq., M.D. Alexander, Lieut.-Col. W., R.E. Alexander, Louis Charles, Esq., LL.D. Anderson, John, Esq. Anderson, George, Esq. Arnaud, Francis Henry, Esq. Arnaud, John Macaulay, Esq. • The Most Hon. the Marquis of Bute, Vice-President. The Right Hon. Lord Borthwick, F.S.A., Scot., Vice-President. Baillie, James William, Esq., of Culterallers. Bain, Joseph, Esq., F.S.A., Scot. Beattie, Alexander, Esq., J. P. Beattie, Joseph, Esq. Bennett, Richard, Esq. Bishop, F., Esq. Braikenridge, Rev. George Weare, F.S.A., Scot. Brash, Richard Rolt, Esq., M.R.I.A. Cabbell, Benjamin Bond, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S. Chalmers, J. A., Esq., F.S.A., Scot. IV CiBRARio, Count. Honorary. Clarke, P. M,, Esq. coulthart, john ross, esq., f.s.a., scot. Craig, Skene, Esq. Craik, George Lillie, Esq. Croll, a. Angus, Esq. Cruikshank, George, Esq. Honorary. The Right Hon. the Earl of Dalhousie, K.T., Vice-President. Dalziel, John, Esq. Davidson, Duncan, Esq., of Tulloch. Davidson, J., Esq. De Chaumont, F., Esq., M.D. Denny, Peter, Esq. Drummond, George Stirling Home, Esq., of Blair Drummond. Duncan, Alexander, Esq. EuiNG, William, Esq., F.R.S.E., F.S.A., Scot. Farquharson, Robert O., Esq. F.S.A., Scot., of Haughton. Ferguson, Robert, Esq. Fleming, J. W., Esq., M.D., F.R.C.S. Francis, Edward James, Esq. The Right Hon. the Earl of Glasgow, Vice-President. Gibbon, Alexander, Esq. Gliddon, Alfred, Esq. GooDEN, J. Chisholm, Esq., Treasurer. Gordon, Alexander, E.=;q. Gordon, John, Esq. Graeme, Captain Alexander, R.N. Graham, Peter, Esq. Gray, John Edward, Esq., IX.D., F.R.S., F.L.S. Greenshields, John B., Esq., F.S.A., Scot., of Kerse. Grieve, John, Esq. Guthrie, James, Esq. The Right Hon. Lord Houghton, F.S.A. Hay, Frederick Rudolph, Esq. Hepburn, William Crichton, Esq. Hunter, David, Esq., of Blackness. Laing, Alexander, Esq., F.S.A., Scot. Larking, J. W., Esq. The Right Hon. the Earl of Mar, Vice-President. Macdonald, John D., Esq., M.D., F.R.S. Macfarlane, W. H., Esq. Macintosh, Alexander, Esq. Macintosh, Charles Eraser, Esq., F.S.A., Scot., of Drummond. Mackenzie, Captain Alexander, of Springfield Mackenzie, D. Stewart, Esq., M.D., of Seaforth. MACKINNON, William Alexander, Esq., C.B. Macmillan, Alexander, Esq. Martin, J. Ranald, Esq. McBurney, Isaac, Esq., LL.D., F.S.A., Scot. McCash, William, Esq. Montgomerie, Hugh Edmonston, Esq., F.S.A. Moore, George, Esq., M.D. MuRCHisoN, Sir Roderick Impey, Bart., K.C.B., F.R.S., F.R.S.E., D.C.L., LL.D., Member of the Imperial Institute of France, Vice-President. Murdoch, Peter, Esq. MuscHET, John S., M.D., of Birkhill. Oliphant, T. L. Kington, Esq., of Gask. Oscar, H.R.H. Prince. Honorary. The Right Hon. the Earl of Rosslyn, Vice-PresidetU. Ramsay, Andrew Crombie, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., V.P.G.S. Reed, E J., Esq., C.B. Richardson, Mark, Esq., M.D., F.R.G.S. Rider, William, Esq. Rogers, Rev. Charles, LL.D., F.S.A., Scot., Hon. Secretary, Snowdoun Villa, Lewisham, S.E. Ross, George W. H., Esq., of Cromarty. Scott, Thomas D., Esq. Semple, David, Esq., F.S.A., Scot. Smith, Alexander, Esq. Stewart, B., Esq. Stewart, Captain Robert, of Westwood, F.G.S., F.R.A.S. Stewart, Charles, Esq., R.A., F.S.A., Scot. Stratton, Thomas, Esq., M.D., R.N. Stuart, Vice-Chancellor Sir John, F.S.A., Scot. SwiNTON, A. Campbell, Esq., F.S.A., Scot., of Kimnierghame. Swithinbank, George Edwin, Esq., LL.D., F.S.A., Scot. Sykes, Colonel William Henry, F.R.S., F.G.S., F.R.A.S. Tod, Alexander, Esq. Williams, Major, W. E., F.S.A., Scot. Wilson, George Ferguson, Esq., F.R.S. Wilson, William Thorburn, F.S.A., Scot., of Burnside. Wizsniewski, Prince Adam. Honorary. Wright, Rev. J. G., LL.D. Yule, Major-General P., F.S.A., Scot. PREFACE. The materials for this book have been taken from the Gask charter-chest, and are the most interesting of the vast mass of papers there preserved. Few houses, I suspect, have been so careful of their records as the Oliphants. In this work, it is designed to touch very slightly upon their first start in Scotland, when, under the old Celtic Kings, they climbed so high, and kept abreast of the Comyns and Stuarts for a hundred years. Nor shall I dwell upon their more modest career under the Kings of Norman blood, by which time the Oliphants had become- a Scottish House of the second class. My business is with the days of their decline after their downfall in the reign of James VI., when about eleven-twelfths of their old lands had been reft away, and that most mournful of words, " Fuimus," had become appropriate in their mouths. Their politics, I fear, will not gain the approval of our age of progress. None of their later Chiefs can challenge for themselves the proud surname of Publicola. True Scots of the old leaven, almost up to the last they loved France more than England. At the Reformation, at the Revolution, and in the Georgian age, the Oliphants were found on the side of reaction. Langside, Killiecrankie, and Culloden, all have the same tale to tell of this House. One exception there is to the rule ; it is that of the youthful Master of Oliphant, who, in 1582, turned his father's Castle of Dupplin into the gaol of the hated Minister of James VI., and whose hard fate it afterwards was, if we may trust Calderwood, to swing at the yard arm of a Flemish pirate. But even the sternest foes to the Oliphant politics will not grudge, I hope, some meed of praise to that unflinching steadfastness which was ever ready to give up life and lands, home and health, in the behalf of a doomed race of Kings. Never was the Jacobite tradition more abiding in any House. Early in 1689, even before Dundee had come down from London to head the first of the Jacobite risings; Lord Oliphant was thrown into prison by the new Government. The reason was, that he had "signed an Association " to stand by King James with life and fortune.! In 1820, or thereabouts, the OU- phant Poetess was still at work upon her Jacobite ballads. In the long interval between these two dates, many of this name had to bear imprison- ment, banishment, sickness, and loss of goods, all for the sake of the Stuarts. There is another point, which the Oliphants of old would have thought worthy of the most earnest recognition by any one who might undertake to I with certain write their lives ; mean their alliance neighbours of theirs in Strathearn. It will be re- marked in the following pages, that whenever an OHphant is in need, a Drummond is sure to step forward as the friend indeed. Such family friend- ships, handed down from age to age, have been more common in the Highlands than in the Low- lands of Scotland. Next to the Drummonds, the Houses standing highest with the Gask family were the Murrays, Graemes, and Robertsons. Besides the Oliphant papers, I have had other help. Many hints have been given me by friends, and also by strangers, as my work advanced. My thanks are specially due to Dr. Robert Chambers, for allowing me to copy the papers of Bishop Forbes, particularly the conferences between Charles Edward and the Laird of Gask in 1769. I owe ^ Luttrell's Brief Relation of State Affairs, ii. 20. - much, in my account of our last civil war, to a manuscript in the possession of T. Oswald, Esq., of Dunnikier ; this manuscript, the work of an eye- witness, has evidently been consulted by Sir Walter Scott for his " Tales of a Grandfather." My best assistant, however, has been the Rev. T. Morris, of Edinburgh, who has deciphered for me much crabbed handwriting, and whose services would be of great value to any persons having occasion to search old charters or to draw up family histories ; he is especially strong in the lore of his native Perth- shire. I have deemed the publication of these papers the best monument that I can build for my ances- tors. I only hope that I may be held justified in having once more asked the question, put long ago by the foremost of Italians to his great-great- grandfather in Paradise,— " Ditemi dunque, cara mia primizia, Quai son gli vostri antichi, e quai fur gli anni Che si segnaro in vostra puerizia?" T. L. KINGTON OLIPHANT. Charlton House, Wimbledon, June 1st, 1870. CO NTENTS CHAPTER I. JAMES OLIPHANT, LAIRD OF WILLIAMSTOUN AND CASK. 1696— 1732. A.D. PAGE 1 142. The Olifards come to Scotland . I 1330. Their intermarriage with Royalty—Their Peerage 2 1600. Their downfall—The Gask Line 3 1660. Sir Laurence Oliphant disinherits Patrick 4 Patrick Oliphant marries Margaret Murray 5 1678. Their friends the Drummonds—Lady Methven 6 1 69 1. James Oliphant marries Janet Murray 7 He helps to drain the Pow 1697. An Indenture of apprenticeship . 1704. He recovers Gask from usurpers His uncles, the Lords Oliphant .
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