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XIII. 



THE DIAEY OF BONNIVEET, 1690. 

 Edited by EOBEET H. MUEEAY. 



Read December 9, 1912. Piiblislied Januahy 11, 1913. 



Among the published material it is difficult to find detailed accounts of 

 the Jacobite War. Works like Dumont de Bostaquet's " Memoires in^dits," 

 Berwick's " Memoires," Schomberg's " Diary," the " Journal of MuUenaux," 

 and Parker's " Memoirs," give on the whole scanty detail. The signal 

 exception to this statement is the remarkably important " Journal of John 

 Stevens," which has been published by the Clarendon Press. The few 

 unpublished records resemble the published, in the lack of precise information. 

 Thus Ensign Cramond's " Diary " (Add. 29878, Brit. Mus.) gives no details of 

 importance. It has no title, but begins " The Eoute of Colonel Wauchope's 

 Eegiment beginning the 15th of October, 1688." Cramond served in the 

 Low Countries and in Ireland from 1688 to 1691, but was clearly a man of 

 action and nothing else. His diary follows immediately after the details of 

 the number of miles marched each day ; and at the end of the slim volume 

 there are money accounts. There are thirty-seven .written leaves in it, 

 besides almost the same number that are blank. Bonnivert's " Journal " 

 (1033, Sloane MSS., Brit. Mus.) is somewhat more satisfactory, though it is 

 also deficient in detail. It occupies only twelve written leaves, besides one 

 leaf of drawings and two of medical receipts : it has no title. Both these 

 diaries were obviously kept in the pockets of their owners. Cramond's 

 diary measures 6^ x 8 inches, and Bonnivert's 5|- x 85 inches. 



Gdddon Bonnivert was the son of Paschall and Judith Bonnivert of 

 Sedan, in Champagne.^ He was probably a Huguenot, and on the revocation 

 of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 he succeeded in coming to England. Some of 

 his papers, in prose and verse, are preserved in the British Museum. It is 

 evident that he was an enthusiastic scientist. Among the Sloane manuscripts 

 there are a treatise on the elements of geometry and fortification, with 



1 1000, f. 170, Brit. Mus. : The Eev. T. H. Falkiiier was good enough to transcribe all the 

 letters for me. 



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