284 Deer Forests of Scotland. 



That he this Examinant is a Roman Catholick . 



FRANCIS TUNSTALL. 

 Examinant Die et Anno Supdict. coram 

 JOHN SIBBIT, Mayor, 

 ANTHONY COMPTON, 

 MATTHEW FORSTER. 



At present I cannot trace the belongings of Francis Tunstall, the narra- 

 tor of this interesting episode in the Jacobite rebellion of J 715-16. In " A 

 List of the Roman Catholics in the County of York, in 1604," edited by E. 

 Peacock, F.S.A., London, 1872, only one Yorkshire family of the name occurs ; 

 viz., Francis Tunstall, Esq., whom the editor conjectures to be Francis 

 Tunstall, of Thurland. Divers recusants were wont to resort to his house 

 " but come not to ye church." " Gerard ffawden, a recusant, doth teache 

 Francis Tunstall his children." (pp. 85, 86.) Attention may be turned in 

 that direction. Mr William Tunstall, "a papist," paymaster- general and 

 quartermaster-generalin 1715-16, to G-en. Forster, " a Yorkshire man, second 

 son to a gentleman of that county of a plentiful estate," was taken prisoner at 

 Preston, (Patten s Hist, of the Rebellion, pp. 67, 112, 113.) The Wyndham 

 family had strong Jacobite proclivities, and under suspicion of being engaged 

 in a plot, in September, 1785, the chief, Sir William Wyndham, was com- 

 mitted to the Tower of London, Other parties named can be identified. 

 The Marquis of Tinmouth was son of the Duke of Berwick. " Captain 

 Robertson of Straughan," is Alexander Robertson of Stro wan, —the Jacobite 

 poet, -chieftain of the clan Donachie, whose main residence was at Mount 

 Alexander, near the eastern extremity of Loch Rannoch. He was captured 

 shortly after, but contrived to escape to France ; and was subsequently en- 

 gaged in the rebellion of 1745-6 He died in his own house at Carie, in 

 Rannoch, April 18th, 1749. He is the prototype of the " Baron of Brad- 

 wardine," in Waverley. The Duke of Argyle set out for London out on 

 the 1st, and arrived there on the 6th March, (Struther's Hist, of Scotland, i., 

 'p. 411.) Tunstall' s deposition agrees with contemporary accounts. - J. H. 



III. DEEBFOKESTS OF SCOTLAND, 1291-1296. 



Gifts of Deer and Timber made by Edward L, from the Royal 

 Forests of Scotland. (Botuli Scotiae, vol. i.) 



Edward I., in 1291, to gratify his principal supporters among the Scottish 

 magnates, intended to have conferred on them, a proportion of landed pro- 

 perty, according to a schedule still preserved among the Scottish Rolls. 

 This scheme was not executed, but they were otherwise compensated, some 

 by large sums of money, and pensions ; others by donations of timber to 



