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the execution x might be necessary it was thought proper 

 my Brother and I should make ourselves known to two or 

 three noted torys of generall acquaintance with the youth 

 in town, by which means we found to our satisfaction that 

 in twenty four hours' warning we might command as many 2 

 as we needed for any loyall undertaking of that nature in 

 which we acquiess't without coming to particulars or insist- 

 ing further at that time. But Shanons Regim[en]t 3 arriving 

 it was th'ot better we shoud have some Souldiers upon 

 which by the advice of Mr. Stracton that we always 

 obtained by Barns's means, and if I be not mistaken my 

 Brother consulted the Earl of Northesk and Leven and 

 my Lord Haddow. We got leave to break our mind some- 

 time after to James Arthur 4 our Cozen German then a 

 Lieut[enant] in the fores[ai]d regim[en]t,who at lenth under- 

 took to provide us with forty Grenadiers upon demand with 

 their arms and ammunition, by which means we knew how 

 to make up the Complement with the assistance of twenty 



1 Col. Allan Cameron in the narrative of "his going into England 

 from the King, July 1715, which he wrote at Avignon from memory & 

 gave Lord Mar 29 October 1716," mentions amongst the instructions he 

 communicated to the Kings friends this one, that if Government 

 attempted to disarm or arrest them before the King set out for Scotland 

 they should "put all their schemes of surprising Edinburgh Castle & 

 other jdaces in execution." — Cal. Stuart Papers, iii, p. 558. 



Again on p. 559 : " I had on my arrival at London two letters from 

 my nephew who waited on you at Nancy. He had been amongst your 

 friends and gave a full account that all things there were then in readi- 

 ness and every one concerned had acted their part so well that their 

 schemes were then ready for execution and that there seemed to be no 

 fear of their miscarrying, and that Lord Marischal had prepared every- 

 thing that could be done at Dunottar and Edinburgh Castle and other 

 places there in a good way." 



2 " There were about 60 or 70 Gentlemen concerned in it, and tho' 

 the attempt was extremely hazardous, yet they had resolved on it, and 

 at many secreet meetings encouraged one another to persevere in it." — 

 Baron Clerk's Memoirs, p. 94. 



3 Shanons Regiment. The 25th Regiment of Eoot (King's Own 

 Scottish Borderers), to which Viscount Shannon was appointed Colonel 

 in 1715. It was raised in 1689 by the Earl of Leven, who was succeeded 

 in 1694 by Colonel Maitland, and he in 1711 by Colonel Breton. Not 

 to be confused with Shannon's Regiment of Marines which Viscount 

 Shannon raised in 1702, and which was disbanded in 1713. See Dal ton, 

 Army Lists and Commission Registers, vols, iv and v. 



4 James Arthur. Dalton gives Ensign James Arthur in this regiment 

 in 1695 ; he became 1st Lieutenant, 25th August 1702. Is this the 

 officer referred to ? One would have expected him to hold higher rank 

 in the regiment by the year 1715. 



