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me indeed nor observe any discretion for twenty-four 

 hours. 1 But as she never dream'd of the Castle his return 

 remov'd all her fears and a visit to the Caledon[ian] Coffee 

 house where he treated with Lindsey 2 about his Commission 

 made all things weel with the Whiggs. Soon after orders 

 came for the troops that lay in Park to march for Sterling 

 the morning of that very day appointed us thursday the 

 8 of Sept[em]ber, it was our good fortune that we had two 

 days advertisement We met Mr. Wallace 3 and three or 

 four others with whom we had kept a decent correspondence 

 from the time of our first communing and letting them 

 know everything that was necessary ; some undertook for 

 ten, other for fifteen who with those we had put up for 

 ourselfs by degrees with all imaginable caution amounted 

 to a sufficient number for the attempt considering the 

 interest my Brother had in that Garrison and I by his 

 means, for I must say that never were two persons so 

 happy or counted themselves more so in theer Scituation 

 to such ane affair, having good reason to reakon the Castle 

 in the King's possession if we cou'd be but once there our- 

 selfs with ten or twelve or the lest appearance to support us 

 there beeing none there but Lindsey and Burnbank 4 whom 

 we could suspect would draw their Swords against us persons 

 as litle regairded by the Garrison as f ear'd by us ; Places 

 were assign'd to evry litle Comand ? and those that wanted 

 of their own were directed to a convenient house in their 

 way in the back of Potterow Street where by Mr. Murray 

 of Stenhop's 5 care were laid for them thirty good pieces 



1 Tom Arthur was then married. His wife, too, knew about her 

 husband's Jacobite proclivities. Was it after all Mrs. Thomas Arthur 

 who peached ? 



2 Lindsey. Presumably the Lindsey of the Castle afterwards referred 

 to. Does it mean that Tom Arthur wished to re-enter the Army or at 

 least suggested this as a cover to his conspiracy ? 



3 Mr. Wallace. Cypher name for whom'? 



4 Burnbank. Cypher name for whom ? Or is this Porteous of 

 Burnbank 1 See Dr. W. B. Blaikie's footnote below. 



5 Murray of Stenhop. Dr. Walter B. Blaikie sends me the following 

 note : — 



" Sir David Murray of Stanhope and Ardnamurchan, 2nd Bart. 



" He was out in the '15, but does not seem to have taken any very 

 prominent part. He was a man of great energy, purchased the estate of 

 Ardnamurchan from Campbell of Lochnell, and developed the lead mines 

 of Strontian. Lockhart of Carnwath (Jacobite manager) thinking that 

 owing to his active habits and constant moving about he would be a 



