Said Stewart's Account of the Design of seizing the Prince at Macintosh's House.

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Sir
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to the best of my Knowledge in
the morning of yethe 13th Xor 14th of Febry:February
1746, as I can Remember His Royal
Highness being in the house of Loch moy
belonging to the laird of McIntosh
it being the head Quarters, for that
night Lord Loudon and McLeod intend-
ed from Inverness to SurprizeSurprise his
Royal Highness beforbefore he Could get
upe, with the Number of about 17
hundred or two Thousand men, Where-
as his Royal Highness hade not above fiftiefifty
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When Stewart had done with his own History,
I desired him to recollect himself, &and to note down
exactly all he could remember of the Design
of surprizingsurprising the Prince, &and of making him Priso-
ner, at Macintosh’s House; because I knew
that Stewart was in Macintosh’s House that
Night. Vol:Volume 2. p:page 258. Vol:Volume 4. p:page 648, &cetc.
Vol:Volume 5. p:page 989, &cetc.

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It should be 17th.

Robert Forbes, A: M:
1208 (1208)
✝fiftiefifty men of a guard that night But
what was all QuartredQuartered Some little
way of
f
and as Soon as Lord Lowdon
and McLeod Seet out from Inverness
theirthere was a little X boy about Twelve
or fourteen Years of age that Seet
out allong with them in order to a-
larmealarm the Prince but for the Space
of two or three millesmiles he never
Could have the opertunityopportunity of pass-
ing by them, and at last he got
CleareClear of them and made the Best
of his way for moy that he Could and
gave the Cry as soon as he Came
to the ClossClose1 where the guards was
Sanding, and Call’dcalled out the EnamieEnemy
was withinewithin a millemile of us, and then
he Came into the Kitchen, wherwhere I
was lying on the Table head a Sleepasleep
and awaknedawakened me by pulling and
hallinghauling at my Great Coat, and
desired me for GodsGod's Sake to go
and waken the prince, which accor-
dingly I went up Stairs and meet on

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About thirty Men, says Gib, Vol: 5. p: 990.

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Lauchlan Macintosh, says Gib, who (as he him-
self told me) was very kind to the Boy, &and took him
into the Kitchen. I asked Stewart, if he remem-
bredremembered yethe Name of the Boy; but he told me, he did
not remember it. Stewart’s Agreement wtwith yethe o-
ther accounts of ysthis matter is yethe more remarkable,
ytthat I did not let him know any Thinganything of them.

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on2 of the guard CommingComing down
from the PrincesPrince's RoomeRoom doredoor and
I asked him If the Prince had made
him answer and he Said he hade
for which his HighnesHighness heard us
Speaking and Call’dCalled out who was
theirthere upon which I made answer,
and he desired me to Call the
piperach3 for which I did and
his HighnesHighness went down Stairs, and
his feet in his ShooesShoes by the way
of Slippers, and Buckled them in
the ClossClose4 upon which my Lady Mc-
Intosh and her Sister and me
went to the RoomeRoom where he Sleept
and took all the most vaulablevaluable
things that werwere in the RoomeRoom
where he lay and went upe to
the garratsgarrets and hidehid them in
fetherfeather Stands that was almost
full of feathers and my Lady
was always Calling at me to fol-
low with the CantainsCanteens for I would
Stay till they would take me by
the neck for by this Time the Prince
was mormore than a mile of5 toward the
South wastwest End of the Loch thorrouthrough
a wood then I went after and o-
vertook them all at the other End of 1210 (1210)
of the loch and by that time Loch-
eal and all his men was CommingComing
and when he Came we was to go
no farther, but Stand it If they
Came upe but in the mean timemeantime
that they werwere all taking a dram
theirthere Came ane Express from my
Lady Mc Intosh aquantingacquainting his Roy-
al HighnesHighness to Return Back again
for the five Spies that she Sent
out the night beforbefore was Come Back
and had hapnedhappened to SurprizeSurprise Nor-
man McLeod [the Laird] who was
upon the advance guard with a-
bout 70 men with him lying in a
hollow not Knowing what to doedo
By Reason of the flashessflashes of ✝Light-
ning from the heavens that was
Confounding all their desinesdesigns
for which a Black Smith on of the
five men that my Lady McIntosh
Sent out as Spies fired upon them
and Killed Mcleods pyperpiper hard by
his Side and wounded an otheranother
of them and then they all tooketook
the flight and Returned to Inverness
hallinghauling the pyperpiper after them till they got

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This is a Circumstance not mentioned by any
other as yet; but whether true or not farther
Information may happen to discover.

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got a horshorse and a Cart to CairrieCarry
him of6 and So his HighnesHighness Re-
turned Back to moy and Stayed a-
nother night and marched the next
day for Inverness And this is truth
as far as I have wrotwrote You but I
Knowe no more of the matermatter

Leith January 30th — 1749 — — —
By — (Sic subrsubscributur) Alex:Alexander Stewart

N: B: Upon the foresaid 30th of
JanryJanuary I went through the
Memorial with AlexrAlexander Stewart,
&and in his presence, &and by his
Direction, I interlined (with
my own Hand) some few Words
to make the Narrative some-
what plainer. The Memorial
in the Hand-writing of the
said AlexrAlexander Stewart, in seven
Pages Folio, is to be found
among my Papers.

Once more I remark here, that
in making out Transcripts of Let-
ters &and Papers I am favoured wtwith,
I observe as exactly as possible
the Spelling &and Pointing of the
Originals.
See Vol: 5. pag: 933.

Saturday’s

Date	30 Jan 1749
Person	Alex.Alexander Stewart
Place	Leith