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I 6ofttsb | 'pk is lot* g j • I $C$. SH j PUBLICATIONS OF THE SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY THIRD SERIES VOLUME XXXV MISCELLANY {Seventh Volume) 1941 MISCELLANY OF ®l)e H’cotttsij iltstorp ^>octet|> {Seventh Volume) THE DIARY OF SIR WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN THE EXILED STEWARTS IN ITALY THE LOCHARKAIG TREASURE EDINBURGH Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable Ltd. for the Scottish History Society 1941 Printed in Great Britain CONTENTS THE DIARY OF SIR WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN, 1657-1659, Edited by Henry W. Meikle Introduction ........ 3 A Booke of Memorandums . .11 Notes ......... 41 THE EXILED STEWARTS IN ITALY, 1717-1807, Edited by Helen Catherine Stewart Introduction ........ 55 Notes from the Chronicle of the Canonico Ghiselli 69 Notes from the Papers of Cardinal Tommaso Ruffi 71 Book of Miniatures relating to the Royal Stewarts 73 Estratto della storia d’Urbino .... 77 Estratti dal Diario delle Cose di Urbino . 79 Lettre du Due d’Hannover a l’Empereur . 88 Letters of James and Clementina .... 93 Letters from Prince Charles Edward to the Car- dinal of York . .118 Letter from the Cardinal of York to Cardinal Giovanni Albani . .122 Description of a Meeting between the Cardinal of York and Augustus, Duke of Sussex . .124 Appendices . .126 THE LOCHARKAIG TREASURE, Edited by Marion F. Hamilton Introduction . .133 Dr. Archibald Cameron’s Memorial . 146 Account by Laughlan Macpherson of Cluny . .152 State of the Effects presently in Scotland, 27 August 1754 ....... 161 Copy of Confession by Glengarry . .164 INDEX 169 vll THE DIARY OF SIR WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN 1657-1659 Edited by HENRY W. MEIKLE, M.A., D.Litt. LIBRARIAN OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND H.M. HISTORIOGRAPHER IN SCOTLAND SIR WILLIAM DRUMMOND From the original at Hawthornden INTRODUCTION Apart from his Diary, now published for the first time, few personal details of Sir William Drummond of Haw- thornden have come down to us. Born in April 1636, he has hitherto been reckoned the elder of two surviving sons of the poet. The Diary, however, reveals the existence of another, Ludovick (‘ Lodie ’), presumably illegitimate. The references to him all relate to unexplained payments of small sums of money until his death is recorded on 22nd September 1657, and his burial at ten o’clock the next night by torchlight ‘ accompanied by the neibours a bout.’ In all probability William was the Gulielmus Drummond who signed the matriculation roll of the Uni- versity of Edinburgh in 1652.1 It was the University which his father had attended from 1601 till 1605 and had enriched by his noble gift of books in 1627. But William, unlike his father, does not appear in the list of graduates. In the same year, 1652, he was served heir to his father.2 When he was in his twenty-first year, in 1657, he began the Diary, and for the short period it covers we can become better acquainted with him than with any of his kin. Thereafter we are almost solely dependent on the fitful appearance of his name in official records. In 1661 he was put on a commission to try witches at Pentland, his colleagues including ‘ Mr. Thomas Henderson 1 Transcript in the University Library. Owing to war precautions, the original roll, with signature, was not available for examination. I am indebted to Dr. L. W. Sharp, University Librarian, for this reference. * Inquisitiones Generates, no. 3726. 4 DIARY OF SIR WILLIAM DRUMMOND of Auchindine, Advocat, Jon Denholme of Murrayes, Wm. Rosse in Melvin, Mark Casse of Cockpen and James Raith of Edmestoun.’1 Another entry in the Privy Council Register, dated 30th November 1665, refers to property in Linlithgow which the Diary also shows him to have possessed.2 During the administration of Lauderdale, he became a Justice of the Peace—by purchase, if we are to credit Father Hay.3 On 1st April 1678 his name appears in a return made by the Sheriff-Depute at Peebles of those absent from a meeting of proprietors of lands within the shire but not residing ‘ within the samyne themselves.’ The purpose of the meeting was the subscription of a ‘ band with their own hands for absteining from con- venticles,’ Drummond being summoned for his property of ‘ Whitfield ’.4 His absence probably had no political or ecclesiastical significance, for some time within the next five years he was knighted. It was as ‘ Sir William Drum- mond ’ that he was admitted a burgess of Edinburgh on 28th November 1683, and the honour may have been the occasion of the ceremony.5 In May 1685 the first Parlia- ment of King James vn., the Parliament of exemplary loyalty, appointed Sir William a Commissioner of Supply for Edinburgh 6 ; and until the very beginning of the Revolution he seems to have been on good terms with the Chancellor, the Earl of Perth, the head of the Drummond 1 s Reg. Privy Council of Scot., 3rd ser., i. 74. Op. cit.i ii. 155. *4 See infra, p. 6. 5 The Scottish Antiquary, xi. (1897), 127, 129. He was not a knight when he registered his arms some time between 1672 and 1678 ; so Sir Francis Grant, Lyon King-of-Arms, kindly informs me. So, too, in the earliest known MS. (Nat. Lib. Scot., Ad. MS. 34.3.24) of Wm. Drummond’s (First Viscount of Strathallan) Genealogy of the House of Drummond, which was ‘ collected in 1681,’ he appears as Mr. William Drummond; see D. Laing’s ed. (Edin. 1831), p. 257. The reason for Drum- mond’s admission as a burgess may be ascertained from the entry in the Burgh Records when they are again available after the war. * Acts of the Pari, of Scot. (Record Series), viii. 464a. INTRODUCTION 5 family. For on 8th March 1689 the Earl wrote from Stirling Castle to Father Innes, Vice-Principal of the Scots College in Paris, commending Sir William’s son as a ‘ loyall honest young man and loves me.’1 Drummond did not, however, share his chief’s fate of imprisonment in the course of the Revolution. On the contrary, we find him reappointed a Commissioner of Supply by the Convention of April 1689 2; and his name appears for the last time in the same capacity in the records of the first parliament of the new regime, June 1690.3 As the Diary shows, Drummond had a becoming interest in his father’s works and papers, although he had neither the capacity nor the energy to make more of them public ; but in his old age he had the satisfaction of placing his father’s manuscripts at the disposal of Bishop Sage and Thomas Ruddiman, who published the first collected edition of the poet’s works in 1711. Sir William survived until 1713, dying at the age of seventy-seven. Two estimates of his character are extant. One was contributed in 1798 to Douglas’s Baronage of Scotland by Bishop Abernethy Drummond. According to this ‘ family legend,’ as Professor Masson called it, Drummond ‘ inherited his father’s principles and virtues and even a portion of his genius, though he published nothing to the world.’1 The other is by a contemporary, Father Richard Augustus Hay, in his ‘ Memoires . relating to . families of Scot- land,’ dated 1700, thirteen years before Sir William’s death.5 1 Drummond, Genealogy, ed. D. Laing, p. 271. 2 A.P.S., ix. 69a. 3 Ibid., ix. 137a. Some of his business transactions are referred to in various volumes of the Index to the Register of Deeds (Record Series), 1661 et seq. 4 David Masson, Drummond of Hawihornden, Lond. 1873, pp. 459, 461 n. Bishop Abernethy married the great-granddaughter of the poet and took the additional surname of Drummond. See Diet. Nat. Biog. 8 Cited in Drummond, Genealogy, ed. Laing, pp. 269-270. I am indebted to Mr. Robert Aitken, Edinburgh, for this reference. For Father Hay, see Diet. Nat. Biog. DIARY OF SIR WILLIAM DRUMMOND ‘ Sr William [is] eldest sone to Mr. William, poet, as he pretends only representative of the House of Carnock.’ A malicious description of his personal appearance follows. ‘ Sir William,’ he continues, ‘ purchased the title of a Justice of peace by my Lord Lauderdale’s favour, a place full of labour, charge, trouble, without any profitt to himself, only able to gratifie his own ambition; for he was fitter to set in privat parlors over the glass, whilst healths goe round, and to examine the condition of a pot of ale, which he hath good opportunity to discover, than the circumstances of any debate that comes before him. He married Sophia Auchamouty, daughter to Sir Alexander Auchamouty of Gosford, Master of the Rolls to King James the Sixt and King Charles the First. Upon whom he begot only one daughter, Sophia Drummond, matched with John Murray of Kringelty in Tweddale, eldest sone of the second marriage to Sir Alex- ander Murray of Blackbarony, a man of bade shape, crookbacked, unfit for marriage and not without some distemper of spirit. She was divorced from him by law, and afterwards joyned in marriage with Robert Preston, sone to the Laird of Gorton, by his first lady. Sir William had for second wife Barbara Scott, daughter to Sir William Scott of Clerkington, a senator of the colledge of justice. He begot upon her William, Robert, Barbara Lady Abbay- hill, Elisabeth, Anna, Margaret, Marie, and Jacobina.’ Another contemporary, Dr. Alexander Pennecuik of New- hall, in facetious verse, again brings Drummond before us as a boon companion. In an ‘ Inscription to be put at the foot of Jonas Hamilton of Coldcoat’s picture ’ he writes : ‘ Save Coldcoat, none Dalhousie knew Who Jonas could at drink subdue, Brave Nicolson, who’s in his grave Did from him many a parley crave ; INTRODUCTION 7 Drummond, who’s still alive, can tell How from them all he bore the bell.’ And from a ‘ Eulogy on the supposed death of..