Pag 9t $cS ' SHS. ^ PUBLICATIONS OF THE SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY VOLUME XIX THE JACOBITE ATTEMPT OF 1719 December 1895 MAP TO ILLUSTRATE THE LAND- ING OF THE EXPEDITION AND THE BATTLE OF GLENSHIEL Atp. xliv MAP TO ILLUSTRATE THE LAUDING OP THE EXPEDITION OF 1719 AND THE BATTLE OF GLENSHIEL LIEUT. BASTIDE'S PLAN OF THE BATTLE OF GLENSHIEL Atp. lii PLAN THE TO CES h« *4.0.0 d.d h cj *4 ^ Q- 5cs. Shs. \°\ A' THE JACOBITE ATTEMPT OF 1719 LETTERS OF JAMES BUTLER, SECOND DUKE OF ORMONDE, RELATING TO CARDINAL ALBERONFS PROJECT FOR THE INVASION OF GREAT BRITAIN ON BEHALF OF THE STUARTS, AND TO THE LAND- ING OF A SPANISH EXPEDITION IN SCOTLAND Edited, with an Introduction, Notes and an Appendix of Original Documents, by WILLIAM KIRK DICKSON M.A., ADVOCATE Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society 1895 PREFACE The Letter Book of the second Duke of Ormonde, now edited for the Scottish History Society, was acquired by the British Museum in November 1890, and is catalogued as No. 33,950 of the Additional Manuscripts. It is a thin vellum-covered volume, consisting of ninety folios, and containing copies, kept in the handwriting of two secretaries, of letters written by the Duke between November 4th, 1718, and September 27th, 1719. Twenty-three of the letters are addressed to Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, and fifty-seven to Cardinal Alberoni. They relate almost entirely to the Cardinal’s pro- jected invasion of this country in 1719 on behalf of the exiled Stuarts, which ended in the Earl Marischal’s landing in the West Highlands and the Battle of Glenshiel. They are an important addition to our somewhat scanty sources of information regarding this enterprise. In the Introduction I have tried to tell the story anew from contemporary authorities. A number of original documents relating to the undertaking are collected in the Appendix. I have to record my humble gratitude to Her Majesty the Queen for the permission graciously accorded to me to make use of a portion of the Stuart Papers in the Library at Windsor. My thanks are also due to the Earl of Kintore, for per- mission to reproduce the portraits of the tenth Earl Marischal and of Field-Marshal James Keith, in his possession at Keith PREFACE Hall; to the Council of the Society of Antiquaries of Scot- land, for permission to reproduce Bastide’s plan of the Battle of Glenshiel from the Proceedings of the Society; to Viscount Dillon, for access to General Arthur Dillon’s papers at Ditchley ; to the Bishop of Edinburgh, for the letter of Bishop Gadderar, printed in Appendix, p. 296; to the Rev. Roderick Morison, minister of Kintail, for information as to the traditions and place-names of Seaforth’s country; and to Mr. Richard R. Holmes, Her Majesty’s Librarian at Windsor, for his courteous assistance in the examination of the Stuart Papers. I am specially indebted to Mr. T. G. Law, Secretary of our Society, for much valuable advice and help. The Index is the work of Mr. Alex. Mill, of the Signet Library. W. K. D. Edinburgh, October 15, 1895. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION, . xix THE DUKE OF ORMONDE'S LETTERS:1— i. To the King (James Stuart), Paris, Nov. 4, 1718, 1 ii. To the Earl of Mar, Paris, Nov. 4, . 2 hi. To Cardinal Alberoni, Alcala, Dec. 1. 4 iv. To the same, Madrid, Dec. 4, . 5 v. To the King, Madrid, Dec. 5, . .6 vi. To General Arthur Dillon, Madrid, Dec. 8, . 8 vn. To the Earl Marischal, Madrid, Dec. 8, . 9 vni. To Cardinal Alberoni, Guada Lama, Dec. 9, • 10 ix. To General Arthur Dillon, Guada Lama, Dec. 9, 11 x. To Cardinal Alberoni, Valladolid, Dec. 17, . 12 xi. To General Arthur Dillon, Valladolid, Dec. 17, . 13 xii. To Cardinal Alberoni, Valladolid, Dec. 17, . 13 xiii. To the King, Valladolid, Dec. 17, • • 15 xiv. To Cardinal Alberoni, Valladolid, Dec. 22, . 17 xv. To the King, Valladolid, Dec. 22, . 19 xvi. To the Earl of Mar, Valladolid, Dec. 23, . 21 xvii. To Cardinal Alberoni, Valladolid, Dec. 24, . 21 1 In the Table of Contents the Letters are referred to by the real names of the persons to whom they are addressed. In the Manuscript they are often headed by fictitious or cipher names. These are in all cases explained by headnotes. A key to the cipher names used in the Letters is appended to the Manuscript. It is printed at page 189. It is not quite complete. The missing names have, so far as possible, been supplied from the Stuart Papers. Throughout the letters the expression ‘ the King ’ refers to James Francis Edward Stuart, called the ‘ Chevalier de St. George,’and the ‘Old Pretender.’ The same usage is for convenience generally followed in the Contents and the headnotes. Through- out the volume dates which refer to events happening or letters dated on the Continent are New Style; those referring to events in Great Britain are Old Style, nominally eleven days earlier. viii THE JACOBITE ATTEMPT OF 1719 The Duke of Ormonde’s Letters—continued rAaB xviii. To Cardinal Alberoni, Valladolid, Dec. 25, 1718,. 22 xix. To the Same, Valladolid, Dec. 31, . 23 xx. To the Same, Valladolid, Jan. 4, 1719^ • • 25 xxi. To Baron de Walef, Valladolid, Jan. 4, . .27 xxn. To Sir Peter Redmond, Valladolid, Jan. 7, . 28 xxin. To Cardinal Alberoni, Valladolid, Jan. 7, . 28 xxiv. To the Same, Valladolid, Jan. 11, . .30 xxv. To the Prince of Campo Florido, Valladolid, Jan. 13, . .32 xxvi. To Cardinal Alberoni, Valladolid, Jan. 17, . 33 xxvii. To the Prince of Campo Florido, Valladolid, Jan. 17 (Memorandum), . .35 xxvin. To the Prince of Campo Florido, Valladolid, Jan. 20, . .35 xxix. To Cardinal Alberoni, Valladolid, Jan. 21, . 36 xxx. To the Same, Valladolid, Jan. 21, . 39 xxxi. To the Prince of Campo Florido, Valladolid, Jan. 24, . .39 xxxn. To Cardinal Alberoni, Valladolid, Jan. 25, . 40 xxxiii. To the Same, Valladolid, Jan. 26 (Not sent), . 42 xxxiv. To the Prince of Campo Florido, Valladolid, Jan. 26, . .43 xxxv. To Cardinal Alberoni, Valladolid, Jan. 26, . 44 xxxvi. To the Same, Valladolid, Jan. 27, . • 45 xxxvii. To the Prince of Campo Florido, Valladolid, Jan. 27, ... 48 xxxviii. To Cardinal Alberoni, Valladolid, Jan. 30, . 49 xxxix. To the Prince of Campo Florido, Valladolid, Jan. 31, . .50 xl. To the Rev. Ezekiel Hamilton, Valladolid, Jan. 31, 50 xli. To Toby Mathews, Valladolid, Jan. 31, 51 xlii. To Cardinal Alberoni, Valladolid, Feb. 1, 52 xliii. To the Duke of Liria, Valladolid, Jan. 25, . 53 xliv.- To the Prince of Campo Florido, Valladolid, Feb. 7 (Not sent), . .53 xlv. To the Rev. Ezekiel Hamilton, Valladolid, Feb. 7, 54 CONTENTS ix The Duke of Ormonde’s Letters—continued page xlvi. To Toby Mathews, Valladolid, Feb. 7, 1719 ■ 55 xlvii. To the Prince of Campo Florido, Valladolid, Feb. 7, . .55 xlviii. To Cardinal Alberoni, Valladolid, Feb. 8, . 56 xlix. To the same, Valladolid, Feb. 10, . 59 l. To the same, Astorga, Feb. 13, . 60 li. To General Crafton, Astorga, Feb. 13, . 62 lii. To the Duke of Gordon, Astorga, Feb. 13, 63 mi. To the Marquis de Risbourg, Foufrien, Feb. 17,. 63 liv. To the Same, Betanzos, Feb. 23, 64 lv. To the Same, Sada, Feb. 24, . 65 lvi. To the Same, Sada, Feb. 24, . 65 lvii. To Baron de Walef, Sada, Feb. 24, 65 lviii. To Sir Timon Connock, Sada, Feb. 24, . 66 lix. To Cardinal Alberoni, Sada, Feb. 26, . 67 lx. To the Earl Marischal, Sada, Feb. 26, . 69 lxi. To Glengarry, Sada, Feb. 26, . 69 lxii. To MacLean of Brolas, Sada, Feb. 26, . 70 Lxiii. To ‘ Clanronald’s cousin ’ (Donald MacDonald of Benbecula), Sada, Feb. 26, . 70 lxiv. To the Marquis de Risbourg, Sada, Feb. 27, . 71 lxv. To the Same, Sada, March 1, . 72 lxvi. To the Same, Sada, March 2, . .73 Lxvii. To the Same, Sada, March 2, . .73 Lxviii. To Don Balthasar de Guevarra, Sada, March 3, . 74 lxix. To Baron de Walef, Sada, March 3, . 75 lxx. To the Same, Sada, March 6, . .76 lxxi. To the Marquis de Risbourg, Sada, March 6, 77 lxxii. To Baron de Walef, Sada, March 9, . 78 lxxiii. To the Marquis de Risbourg, Sada, March 12, 78 lxxiv. To Cardinal Alberoni, Sada, March 12, . 79 lxxv. To Baron de Walef, Sada, March 12, . 80 lxxvi. To the Marquis de Risbourg, Sada, March 15, 81 lxxvii. To Baron de Walef, Sada, March 15, .82 lxxviii. To Sir Timon Connock, Sada, March 16, 82 lxxix. To the Marquis de Risbourg, Sada, March 16, . 83 THE JACOBITE ATTEMPT OF 1719 The Duke of Ormonde’s Letters—continued lxxx. To Cardinal Alberoni, Corunna, March 17, 1719, PACE84 lxxxi. To the King, Corunna, March 17, . 86 lxxxii. To the Earl of Mar, Corunna, March 17, . 87 lxxxiii. To the Marquis de Risbourg, Corunna, March 19, 88 lxxxiv. To the Same, Corunna, March 20, . 88 lxxxv. To Don Balthasar de Guevarra, Corunna, March 20, 89 lxxxvi. To Cardinal Alberoni, Corunna, March 22, . 90 lxxxvii. To the King, Corunna, March 22, . 93 lxxxviii. To the Same, Corunna, March 27, . 95 lxxxix. To Cardinal Alberoni, Corunna, March 27, . 96 xc. To Messrs. Crean & Company, Bankers, Madrid, Corunna, March 27, . .98 xci. To Cardinal Alberoni, Corunna, March 31, . 99 xcii. To the King, Corunna, March 31, . 101 xcm. To the Same, Corunna, April 4, . 101 xciv. To Cardinal Alberoni, Corunna, April 5, . 102 xcv. To the King, Corunna, April 5, . 104 xcvx. To Cardinal Alberoni, Corunna, April 9> .104 xcvii. To the King, Corunna, April 11, .